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Originally Posted by Ted Baldwin
...........in the 07 G55, MB got a 24HP increase just by modifying the ECU. It is the same car as the 05 and 06 G55 but the software in the ECU is different. Understandably MB is making a big deal about this HP increase and using it as a selling point to sell the 07 G55's. Well, any tuner can do it thereby negating MB's marketting talking points. You can buy an 05 G55 for $70K and pay $300 to get ECU tuned by one of the tuners instead of buying the 07 G55 for $104K. My point is that there is no question that MB is playing around with the ECU's themselves and would rather the tuners didn't know how to do it. What everyone needs to realize is that the ECU flash the dealers are doing is not germaine to the secondary air injection pump relay replacement. My own opinion is that that MB decided to make the AMGV8K's slower in anticipation of the AMG 63 series thinking that no one will notice.
............Here is the link to the info o the 07 G55. http://www.mercedesbenzone.com/archi...68kW_500hp.htm
Ted |
Only question i have with saying MB wants to drop performance on the 55K overall is why then are some cars rarely affected (like the newer ones)? I definitely agree that MB did this on "purpose" I just think it had some reasoning (even if it is that less power means less warranty needs). I am starting to buy into the MB did it to coco block the tuners theory.
Agreed on the G. i am looking at a new G500 and considerd a used G55 instead. Not interested in the '07 myself.