Cobb Axes There FMIC... So sad

[cpolly69]

I finally decided that next year i would buy the Cobb tuning tool Accessport. This is fn great. I recall when thet were still trying to break the codes and get a handle on the ecu. I read everything i could about the company. And CP-e. It took forever for release of the first edition. I assume, it was that the ecu was a b**** from Mazda engineers to fiddle with. well now that the protune is available i finally am ready. And now they are moving on. I surely will have to call them up about this. I remember them being friendly and helpful way back in 07. A shame i suppose. what do you mean by bad ones warped snail?

it's only the parts they are supposed to be moving away from - they are still supposed to sell and support the ap

 

[ericrapp]

Thanks i do feel better now. What is going on are they focused on gt-r now?

 

[cpolly69]

For quite some time, the MAZDASPEED community has, in large part, been confrontational, disrespectful, unprofessional, vulgar or childish regarding any announcements and/or business decisions COBB Tuning has made on public forums. Responses ranging from outrage and profanity to threats of intellectual property piracy have become the normal reaction when things don't go exactly to their wishes. No amount of professionalism, realism or rationale has worked in turning these communications into more constructive discussions.

Although COBB Tuning is a business, it is made up of enthusiasts that work here and they love what they do. Everyone gets a lot of satisfaction from taking on the hard projects like cracking and controlling the MAZDASPEED ecu and making it do what no one else does. When ongoing criticism to these efforts is "**** COBB" or "I'm going to hack your software and give it away" or "**** these OTS maps" or "Hopefully Cobb will get it's head out of it's ***", it tends to make everyone less enthusiastic about working on it.

We have decided to bring MAZDASPEED development to a close because no one at COBB finds it rewarding to put in the hours and hours of effort just to have so many people spouting negativity and insults. In fact, many of our pro tuners have been monitoring the MAZDASPEED forum discussions to gauge interest and have come back with "Uh, nevermind...not worth dealing with it" responses. It's a shame that while the MAZDASPEED community is demanding more performance products from manufacturers, the tribal infighting, Lord of the Flies atmosphere and unrestrained attitude displayed on the forums is actually driving choice and new development out of the market. It might be fun for some, but the entire community suffers as a whole.

Regards,

Gary Sheehan
Director of Marketing
COBB Tuning

That was floating around for some time - I don't know the whole story with these guys - I've got everything I want except an fmic & fuel pump and I believe I'll go w/CPE when I'm ready for those - I wanted the AP as I have been excited about afr, but I've recently discovered the tuning shop that is local to me and has a great rep. says they don't see the results and what's promised out of afr and will only work with the sb - so i may wind up going that way too even though it's more expensive