No. If you take good care of it

 

you're mad that I'm right that tunes are worth it.. even in a long run, because that's not the most aggreable thing to say.

So his question was "overtime does it wear out the engine components reducing the life of the car overall? or does tuning optimize the car efficiently for the better?"

While I have no idea how a tune will affect HIS car, and i barely know that his engine works let alone the mileage etc, I am aware of exactly the comparative way in which most tunes change efficiency vs operating safety and that can give an exactaly average picture of what will happen to any car. Tunes both do the good of increasing efficiency and the bad of causing part wear, however it's not important to mention this specifically or the specifics of that, which would fill him in on his question.

What is important instead is to walk away with the fact that tunes are a good thing even if you slice it his way.

No one disagrees with that if we say that OP is a reasonable person in the way he slices things right?

Obviously asside from that my caveat is that i can only answer OP's question with IDEAS instead of Clairvoyance, but don't take my conclusion down with that.

 

would you like a gold star?

I said that because of the blanket statement he made, as well as the outrageous claim that he knew the exact answer to all questions about tunes and engines. The fact is, is that some tunes are not good for your engine. Sure there are safe tunes, but there are also very dangerous tunes. So thanks fyougitive, for letting us in on your life lessons and contributing so much to this thread.

 

to be honest you have completely lost me.

 

ha ha try to click with what I'm saying it's smart.

I can summarize with yeah I'm taking very blanket approaches, BUT they are resonable because I'm assuming OP's values are of a normal person so it's not like he is not going to do normal things (he did the same blanketing in fact by specifying "tunes" instead of like brenspeed tunes).

As for knowing about HIS car, I don't. i know averages which go into creating his result. You can say that is exactly what he wants, because that is the ideal thing you could say short of running two copies of the car on a Ford test course until they break.

 

Are you high, or do you make it a point to write incoherent sweeping generalizations? Your posts have basically said nothing, but while using a lot of convoluted language to make it seem like you are saying something.

One sentence, what is your point.

My take is that most canned tunes aren't going to harm your car, unless you drive like an idiot most of the time (i.e. high revs, power shifts).

 

I think people are forgetting an essential fact here...

He whocruises consistently in4th gear at 2300rpms will wear his engine faster than the guy whocruises consistentlyin 5th gear at 1400 rpms. Regardless of tune.

 

Im no super car engine knowing guy but my guess is that the distance from your foot to the floorboards has more to do with engine wear than a custom tune.

the problem seems to be however that when you do get a custom tune the floorboards somehow get closer.

 

What do you mean by dangerous?? nice car btw

 

If you're worried about wear, then park the car and get a beater. It's like buying a great looking shirt and not wearing it because you'll have to wash it and it may fade faster. Hell, I bought the Stang so I can have fun, not worry about crap like that. If you want more longevity, buy an import.

And, IMO (as if anyone cares at this point), it's all in how hard you drive it and how well you care for it, period. We have no control whether the monkeys or the gurus were on shift when it was built.