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Originally Posted by JCL
No thanks. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but mine is that selling a chip to tune a modern naturally aspirated vehicle is essentially a scam.
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I think there is always a little wiggle room left just to be on the safe side, so I don't think it's a scam. I'm not sure what years you consider to be modern, but my 91 M5 came with 315hp stock, yet the chip I have bumped it up to 340. That sounds like a lot for such a simple chip, but it was literally a night and day difference on the M. My bike has software as well, and it's a huge difference. As for the X, the gains are only 10hp or so, which isn't huge, but probably noticeable nonetheless. IMHO, about the only scam here really is $$Dinan$$ and their pricing on parts, but as I mentioned, I don't doubt that there is always a little wiggle room left in software tuning from any stock ECU, BMW or otherwise.
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