The companies and individuals that are supplying reflash software or reflash options have become much more astute, their packages have become much more advanced, and of course at the same time we've seen the factory fitted ECUs in cars and the electronics fitted to cars also become much more advanced. Now of course this technique has been in common use since 2001, so we're getting onto sort of 16 years of development in that market. So initially with the reflashing, reflashing market, often we were limited to what we could change, what we could get access to, and it wasn't probably a comparable technique to the aftermarket standalone ECUs that were available at the time. Not every single car that's on the market is able to be reflashed, so we do need to understand what options are available for the particular models that we are interested in. So it's a process that is applicable to a lot of cars that were produced after about the year 2001 albeit it as I'll discuss in a little bit more detail shortly. We are working with the factory fitted componentary, and in a lot of cases we don't need to do anything other than plug into the OBD2 diagnostic port. One of the big advantages of this is that we don't have the expense of an aftermarket ECU, wiring, etc.
So it's simply a different process of achieving our tuning aims. We can then modify that tuning data in exactly the same way that the factory calibration engineers do so, and then we can reflash that new tuning data back into the ECU.
We'll start with the very basics of what exactly reflashing is.Īnd this is a technique that's become more and more popular as our cars have become more complex in the electronics package, and reflashing is a process where we retain the factory fitted ECU, or PCM as it's often referred to, and we download the stock tuning data out of the ECU. I'm gonna rewind and I'll start for those of you who aren't really up to speed with reflashing. There's a lot to know, and there's also a lot of options, so hopefully today's webinar is going to give you some insight into the world of reflashing and what it is you actually need to understand in order to choose the best option for your particular tasks or application.Īs usual, we will be having questions and answers at the end of the webinar, so if there's anything that you want me to elaborate on or anything that I don't discuss that you want me to dive into, please ask those in the chat and I'll deal with those at the end of the webinar. Welcome to this webinar where we're going to be discussing what you need to know in order to choose a suitable reflashing package for your particular use. It's Andre from the High Performance Academy.