Cant Believe i only just noticed this thread

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There is always the thoughts attached from visiting customers and some forum readers that "he" must be making to much money if he can afford such a hi priced car.
Well they could not be more wrong !! tuning cars or having a small developement company of any sort does not make the profit people actually think.
Some times belive it or not id actually be better filling shelfs at Tesco for the work it takes to do and the return on that work in money.

Don't think i have read anything that rings more true in years chap, although i dont have the visits i have the same thoughts.
My bank owns 110% of my D3 and i own about 50% of an 03 L322 thats been off the road 3 months needing a grands worth of EAS Air bags that i really cant afford / justify buying for it. I could not even afford the Laptop i am typing on and so persuaded a millionaire mate of mine who owed me a ton of favours to buy it for me

But just like Pete, i don't need or want anyones sympathy, lots of people are likely far worse off that me,
I have the greatest wife in the world, that i love to bits and would do anything for, a couple of Dogs we adore and spoil rotten, we get to live in a really nice country, albeit in a very modest bungalow also owned totally by the bank and then some) and i do a job i really love doing that helps out loads of other folk and pays the bills. I also have a host of really good freinds, So respectively i have absolutely no complaints and would not swap with anyone.

As for essays, yea it's true
But in fairness, as a computer programmer, i do type really fast, which is just as well, else i would have to stack shelves instead.
And its hard to be brief about something you are quite knowledgable on and is so close to your heart.

Regards D3/D4 V RRS, its strange that our equipment is not more popular with RRS owners as the electronics is almost totally identical. I guess it might be down to the fact that i really only spend any time here on the D3/D4 forum with you less bling oriented chaps


Anyway as Pete has stated, he is getting a shiny new D4 (lucky chap) which will of course help not only him with his tuning but us with our testing of stuff too, and we have jointly worked and invested to kit him out with all the requisite dedicated test gear for that, which is already paying dividends. In fact in all due respect to Pete and a strong indication of just what a fine chap he is, i firmly believe it was probably a strong element in his decision as to how much his having a new D4 would also help us. It is certainly not something i will easily forget in our efforts to also help him in any way we can in future.

Regards re configuring and enablement of options on the D4 which are now quite common place on the D3, I can tell you that we have already done masses of work on all the Later 2010 vehicles. Although the communication protocols are totally different, at heart the newer vehicles are surprisingly similar to their predecessors and actually have exactly the same CCF, although its now in a different module. There is also a brand new CCF that is much bigger and more detailed in them too. Fortunately we have already cracked that as well as Flash File loading for all 2010 on models, so as soon as Pete gets his shiny new D4, we will be very quick to capitalise on it and try our best not to break it.

So in answer to all the "will there be the same retro activation capabilities for the D4 as there currently are in the D3" questions, I would say it is extremely likely that there will be and probably quite soon.