Hi,
I am running a 2006 5.4 Triton and will start towing a travel trailer soon.
Do you have any recommendation based on experience for a programmer with respect to towing, or would you recommend to go wait and see ?

 

Before I got my SCTx4 my little 16' ski boat felt like a dump truck hooked to my rear bumper. Have a hard time even noticing it now.

5* and MPT custom tunes. DO NOT rely on canned tunes, worthless really.
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Dumb question but I'm not smart on programmers. What is the difference in canned tunes and custom.

 

Canned tunes are what come in most tuners. They are better than stock, but not as good as custom tunes. Canned tunes are made to work anywhere in the world, under any circumstance. Custom tunes are just that. They give you a tune for your truck, specific to what you want and need.

 

Thanks so if I ordered a 5* tuner then it would be custom tunes correct? I see you have to pick out the tunes you want for them.

 

That is correct. You'll get the tuner with no tunes in it. You go to your truck, and pull your stock tune, then hook it up to your computer, and send them the stock tune. They then build your tunes and send them to you via email. Load it in your truck, and you are good to go.

 

You still get the canned tunes, once you get the programmer you hook it up to the vehicle and read the calibration, send that information to them and they will send you the custom tunes in email that you upload to the programmer then upload them into the vehicles pcm.

When custom tunes are installed the canned tunes are automatically disabled.
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Thanks folks, this helps a lot indeed.
I will do my first few trips w/o any tunes, then go for a "tow optimized tune" muck likely.

 

No. If you cannot pull the trailer without a tune, you have too much trailer for the truck. Any tune will put more stress on the engine than it was designed for and therefore sacrifice longevity for performance.

 

No one said the truck can't pull the trailer, a tune just makes it that much more easier, highly acclaimed on most major towing magazine/forums and the like. Also makes the truck much more fun to drive.

Before you start trash talking about something you obviously have no clue about, walk a while in tuned shoes. I was dead set against them for years, dealer tech in me was gospel stock Ford only, then I woke up.
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