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#1 ·
I'm new to the forum. I purchased a Quadzilla, pulse programmer for my 07 dodge 2500. The installation instructions should have raised a red flag because they were for an o5, 5.9 diesel not the 6.7l. I still wasn't going to give up that easy but they became much more complicated than the original advertisement of 20 minutes to install. I gave up after 5 hours trying to unplug and plug in different sensors and tapping and installing an egt sensor. So I took the truck to a mechanic to install. He was baffled when he installed the programmer and it instantly blew a fuse to the display. He called the tech. support and discovered it had been assembled wrong. The positive and negative had been swapped causing a direct short and a part of the harness was missing. They overnighted the missing part and the mechanic changed the wiring getting the unit to come on. To enter the engine parameters for the warnings, I had to go back to tech support not being a diesel mechanic or engineer myself. I finally set all these and went out to try this new piece of equipment.

The first time I tried to use it I got 2 engine codes on the programmer, engine light, and a warning to contact the dealership now, service required. I've spent as much money getting it installed, repairing their mistakes with the wiring, and getting it removed by the dealership mechanic in order to clear the problem codes as I did on the programmer itself.

I just wanted to get a few more mpg's and more power pulling my fifth wheel trailer. A friend had led me to this product and now I'm not sure if these programmers are worth all this. Which programmers work with Chrysler computers operating as they're advertised and owners are happy with their results?
 
#2 ·
If you are running deleted (dpf, egr, the such) then any of the H&S products or Smarty products. Even if you are not running deleted you can still use their products but face the real possibility of increased regens and the such. It honestly sounds like you should cut your losses and remove the Quadzilla completely..
 
#12 ·
cut your losses and remove the Quadzilla completely..
yep, had one of their monitors (gauges) on my 1999 worked for 2 months then would flash error all the time, a buddy had a programmer on his 1998 and it fried the ecm

Smarty from now on for me
 
#3 ·
Soooo.... you got a programmer for a 5.9 to work on a 6.7? Did you reprogram it? I dont know that much about programmers, I'm still learning myself. If you have a 6.7 than any programmer for a 6.7 will work. You cant mix a 5.9 programmer and a 6.7 or vise versa.
 
#5 ·
I will pretty much second what eveyone else already said . Go with an H&S product and your headaches will disappear . I couldnt be happier with my blackmaxx .
 
#6 ·
I'm new to the forum. I purchased a Quadzilla, pulse programmer for my 07 dodge 2500. The installation instructions should have raised a red flag because they were for an o5, 5.9 diesel not the 6.7l. I still wasn't going to give up that easy but they became much more complicated than the original advertisement of 20 minutes to install.
it doesnt have anything to do with giving up. you got the wrong box
for your truck. period. did you buy this from a private person, or did
you get it from a vendor ?

it doesnt matter what you try to do, the 5.9 box will not work on your
6.7.
 
#8 ·
ill jump on the H&S bangwagon. AMAZING is the only wordto describe how my truck works now. MINMAX with the transtune, all deletes" dpf-egr", banks intake,fuel rail plug.
i laugh at these little S!#t cars that think they are fast now. nothing is more gratifying then seeing the faces of people when a 9000lb truck blows them away
 
#9 ·
I'm new to the forum. I purchased a Quadzilla, pulse programmer for my 07 dodge 2500. The installation instructions should have raised a red flag because they were for an o5, 5.9 diesel not the 6.7l. I still wasn't going to give up that easy but they became much more complicated than the original advertisement of 20 minutes to install. I gave up after 5 hours trying to unplug and plug in different sensors and tapping and installing an egt sensor. So I took the truck to a mechanic to install. He was baffled when he installed the programmer and it instantly blew a fuse to the display. He called the tech. support and discovered it had been assembled wrong. The positive and negative had been swapped causing a direct short and a part of the harness was missing. They overnighted the missing part and the mechanic changed the wiring getting the unit to come on. To enter the engine parameters for the warnings, I had to go back to tech support not being a diesel mechanic or engineer myself. I finally set all these and went out to try this new piece of equipment.

The first time I tried to use it I got 2 engine codes on the programmer, engine light, and a warning to contact the dealership now, service required. I've spent as much money getting it installed, repairing their mistakes with the wiring, and getting it removed by the dealership mechanic in order to clear the problem codes as I did on the programmer itself.

I just wanted to get a few more mpg's and more power pulling my fifth wheel trailer. A friend had led me to this product and now I'm not sure if these programmers are worth all this. Which programmers work with Chrysler computers operating as they're advertised and owners are happy with their results?

That usually means STOP!!!!!
 
#10 ·
Its like you pull up to the gas station and see gas and know you need diesel but get gas anyways because its cheaper..:S:
 
#15 ·
to the op, you are your own worst nightmare lol, dont do it again. if it seems rong its rong. dont just wing it with these things kuz u will mess something up, brick your pcm or even worse. so just use some common sense
 
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