Hello everyone,
I recently bought a trinity on eBay (i know this is asking for problems, which it did bring). I wasn't thinking right and just plugged it into my car without checking for updates and to see if it was unmarried. I went straight to performance and went on installing a modified stock tune and the firm shift tune to the tcm. after in installed it said there was a problem and it was going to restore stock backup. At this point i realized that at no point did it actually take a backup of my car at the beginning of the tune. Once it completed putting the so-called backup on my car it would not start. The cluster gauges did not work and nothing happened when i turned the key. I have some friends at a Chevy dealer so I towed it there and got a PCM re flash and thankfully my car started up and all was well. Until i pulled out of the parking lot and realized i got the infamous ESP off and the cluster saying i was in park when i was actually in drive. It also does not shift. I turned around and had them look at it again and they were going to flash the tcm also but the computer cant even find it. It is completely invisible. I tried doing the battery reset left it unplugged for over 24 hours and still no dice. They are telling me i need a whole new TCM and seem convinced the unit in my car is either fried or whatever the diablo installed on it has permanently bricked it. I talked to the eBay seller and he is telling me that it was unmarried and was working fine. The trinity is telling me it is unmarried at this point also. I thought trinity wouldn't tune cars if they were married but the only thing i can think of is if the trinity installed a previous car's tcm data on my 09 G8 GT. Help..!
I recently bought a trinity on eBay (i know this is asking for problems, which it did bring). I wasn't thinking right and just plugged it into my car without checking for updates and to see if it was unmarried. I went straight to performance and went on installing a modified stock tune and the firm shift tune to the tcm. after in installed it said there was a problem and it was going to restore stock backup. At this point i realized that at no point did it actually take a backup of my car at the beginning of the tune. Once it completed putting the so-called backup on my car it would not start. The cluster gauges did not work and nothing happened when i turned the key. I have some friends at a Chevy dealer so I towed it there and got a PCM re flash and thankfully my car started up and all was well. Until i pulled out of the parking lot and realized i got the infamous ESP off and the cluster saying i was in park when i was actually in drive. It also does not shift. I turned around and had them look at it again and they were going to flash the tcm also but the computer cant even find it. It is completely invisible. I tried doing the battery reset left it unplugged for over 24 hours and still no dice. They are telling me i need a whole new TCM and seem convinced the unit in my car is either fried or whatever the diablo installed on it has permanently bricked it. I talked to the eBay seller and he is telling me that it was unmarried and was working fine. The trinity is telling me it is unmarried at this point also. I thought trinity wouldn't tune cars if they were married but the only thing i can think of is if the trinity installed a previous car's tcm data on my 09 G8 GT. Help..!