I called bully dog again but this time I had to wait for about 10 - 15 minutes before I got a tech. So when I got out of work I tried it again with the same results. I got on the phone with BD and got a tech within minutes of calling them, he told me they needed to reword that section because you have to make the adjustments with the truck running, he did say though if I still had problems they'd have to send me some special file for the truck. Unfortunately though when I got the truck to operating temp and was granted access to the idle and timing menus, the screen prompts would tell me to turn the key off, then turn the key to the on position, so I followed the directions but the idle and timing would not adjust, it would bring me to the screen and tell me to push up or down to make adjustments, but nothing would happen the values would stay at zero. First was that you can't access those features unless the truck is at operating temperature or higher (180 Degrees), it makes sense you want to adjust those things when the engine is running normally so you can make proper adjustments. When I went to play with the Idle adjustment & timing I ran into some issues. However I couldn't really squeak any extra mileage out of my truck so I switched over to transmission temperature to see how the transmission temperature behaves. At first I played with the fuel economy and driving coach which was nifty, it gave little hints about how to drive better, there was a little bar that showed you wasted energy and your driving score as a whole and for the specific trip. The other 3/4's of the screen is used to display details from 1 of the 4 parameters you've chosen to monitor, and you can pick which one you want details on at any time. Right off the bat the monitoring features are pretty cool, you have a column on the left that takes up roughly 1 quarter of the screen, and the column contains 4 rows you can use to monitor any 4 different engine parameters. I got the bully dog all updated and loaded up with the right software for my truck and went out to uninstall the Hypertech and install the bully dog. The Bully Dog arrived and I was actually very surprised by the size of it, I expected it to be closer to the size of a small GPS unit, not a big deal, I was also surprised by the complexity of initial setup for the bully dog, but again not a big deal. The only thing I was worried about was losing the WOT restriction removal option, but I'll go into that more in a minute. But anyway the other day I was sitting in traffic and the idle vibration got real annoying so I took to Amazon and picked up a Bully Dog GT Platinum 40417. I've actually been running a Hypertech max energy for over a year now, and I've been happy with the performance, but when I bought it I was unaware that it was missing two key features the Bully Dog tuner has, the first being Idle Adjustment to fix the low idle vibration, and the timing adjustment, I also found out later on that BD is one of the few (only?) ways to monitor trans temp w/o a real gauge setup. Hey guys, over the past couple weeks I decided to experiment a little with a bully dog tuner and I wanted to share my thoughts.
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