Originally Posted by
Logtec
ABT is official Audi partner and the warranty will not be affected with their tune. Thats probably why they are asking such crazy prices.
Car dealers in Germany operate under different laws than they do in the US. I'm not a lawyer, but the gist of it is that once a dealer buys a car, they own it 100% and can do whatever they want to it and sell it however they want. In the US, Vag has a say in what dealers can and can't do. They have 0 say in Germany.
They aren't partnered with Audi. They are sold in dealers and the warranty is provided by them (ABT/MTM). That's why they're both so expensive.
For the record, we do the same thing in Germany. It's more expensive when bought that way than what somebody would pay in the US for just a tune.
I haven't touched an MTM box, so I can't say whether it's well built or not. I have explored the ABT boxes and they're very well designed and well made. If I was going to do a tuning box, that would be my choice.
For 1K, you probably can't go too wrong. Even if you don't like it or decide to get a proper flash tune later, it should be sell-able on eBay easily enough.
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