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This is a step by step guide on how to use your new M-Tuner software flashing suite for your Porsche Turbo, 911 Carrera or 718! Video and text are provided below to assist you. If at any time you need assistance, please call our office (949.444.2150) or email us at info@m-engineering.us
Step 1. First you will get the M-Engineering cable and box. You will need to download the latest version of M-Tuner from https://www.m-engineering.us/pages/downloads and install it onto your laptop. This is only compatible with PC based computers or Mac’s running on boot camp or something similar.
Step 2. Send your calibration information to M-Engineering. Next after installing M-Tuner onto your laptop, you will need to connect the M-Engineering dongle into your OBD port.
The port can be located here:
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Please open your email and send an email to calibration@m-engineering.us and in the Topic Line tell us what type of car and customer name such as “ 992 Turbo S, Tom Smith”. Once you have done that in the subject of the email if you hit “Ctrl+V” it will paste this info in. Please also include any vehicle modifications and what octane will be run in the car. You can then send the email to us! Once we receive it you should get a set of files with in 24 hours but most likely will be much faster if during business hours.
Step 3. Flashing your car.
Once you get an email from us with the tuned files you will also get a license key.
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Since all CAN traffic is silenced it is wise to also disconnect or power down any ancillary CAN devices which may be hooked up. e.g. radar detectors, logger dashes, etc… |
Datalogging
Open M-Tuner and connect the OBD dongle to your vehicle and PC via the supplied USB cable.
If you have a profile open and a good connection to the vehicle “Start Datalogging” and “Clear Faults” will be in bold and no longer grayed out.
“Start Datalogging” will now begin displaying live data in the monitor panel and your logging speed will be displayed near the bottom.
Whenever you start to monitor a datalog is created automatically. When you first datalog a folder called “Datalogs” will be created in the same folder as M-Tuner. This is where all datalogs are saved.
Datalogs are saved as both a .csv and a .ldat.
.csv files are files you are welcome (& encouraged) to review. Knowing what to look for in datalogs can be a great tool in early detection of an issue.
.ldat files are encrypted files that contain proprietary calibration data.
We are always available to review datalogs.
If you have a datalog you’d like us to review shoot us an email at Info@M-engineering.us with the subject header “Porsche Log Review” Please be sure to also include your VIN in the email.
Our Datalogging Parameters page can help you make sense of most vital monitors.
If we send you an LCFG2 file for logging please put it in the following folder:
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Drop it in there and then when you open M-Tuner be sure to select in in the box at the bottom left that has a drop down.
Read & Clear Faults
The “Read & Clear Faults” buttons allows you to read Porsche specific faults in the DME as well as clear faults in all modules.