Stage 3 was selling the tuner with 5 custom tunes from 5 star included in the price. $400 something, I bought the extra power train warranty so that added another $500 to the cost but that's up to you if you want the added peace of mind.

EDIT: Yeah they still do, here's the link http://www.stage3motorsports.com/701...ar-Tuning.html

Warranty is optional.
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I already have the x4 that I bought from Franchi. The warranty from stage 3/5 star is what I'll probably end up doing. Was flat out told that the tuner will void the factory warranty. After the threads from stage 3 about how their warranty works, it definately sounds as good if not better than factory.

 

It's ordered! Got both 87, both 89, and 91 p/t tunes. The wait begins.

 

All right, children, don't make me stop this truck

Seriously, though, don't be thin-skinned on the forum. We're all trying to help each other out. It's hard to have everyone do exactly the same thing when expressing the results of a mileage or performance check. That's why comments are made regarding the length of an evaluation drive affecting the results. No one is picking on anyone; just trying to compare apples to apples.
Geez, something as simple as tires makes a significant difference on mileage, with everything (and I mean Everything) else being the same.
No one to date has established what could be a standard to ensure we all evaluate our trucks in the same way, so there will be variances in the numbers we get. The only thing we CAN be sure of is that the truck computers are notorious for over-estimating the mileage figures. My manual calcs come out lower than the truck's by almost .6MPG. I trust my math far more than Ford's, particularly since I do my calcs exactly the same way each time, as well as the way I do fill-ups.
Hope this is of help

 

You wont be disappointed.

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That's funny, last time I heard that, it was me telling my 3y/o son and 6y/o daughter the same thing 20 years ago.

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Judging by what I've learned today, I probably won't be.
Thanks for your input and to the others as well.

 

Rolling reset. Mixed driving, 30 to 60 MPH. Some cruise control, mostly not. Some uphill, some downhill. No tail wind. Some braking included. One stop and wait for oncoming traffic before turning left. One slow down for then pass slow moving farm equipment. One complete stop at stop sign.

First pic is stopped at stop sign. Second pic is stopped at destination. Obviously there was acceleration back to speed between the two.

Of course this MPG can’t be maintained in everyday driving do to number of stop starts, time idling at red lights, etc. At 58xx miles my lifetime average is 20 even (actually that was reset at about 100 miles on master ODO).

I’d love to tune for more but it would have to be quite a bit to justify the tuner cost and potential warranty issues, whatever they may be. I have no idea what MPG a tuner will yield and that’s why I was asking about larger sampling results.

For now, I’m not disappointed with factory tune.

Edit: About a mile after the first pic I turned the A/C on to defog windshield as it started raining hard. I also had to turn the cruise off because there was too much water on the road. I could really feel the water adding rolling resistance. If not for that, the final MPG would likely have been higher.

 

Did you get the stage 3 warranty package or just the tune package?

 

Right now, I just got the tune package. I'm not sure about Stage 3's claims about voiding the warranty. I'm going to run it past my "trusted" guys at the dealership before I even install anything. I should be seeing one of the guys tomorrow afternoon when I get my truck back. I've been told that all you have to do is reinstall the stock tune, and no one will know the difference. If I have any doubts, I'll be buying Stage 3's insurance.
I've had programmers before, and never had any issues, and it was a Super Chips at that, installed on a 7.3 Stroker.
Sooo, we shall see.