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Can a dealer flash a 18 using the 2019 map?

JMCX

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It has been posted that The 2018 ER and the 2019’s have a better map/performance than the 2018’s. Can a dealer flash the 2019 map to a 2018?

What have you heard about the '19s?
 

Devilmanak

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True, like 10 horse or so. I would say Cat Race Dept. or Speedwerx. Not sure what they charge, I had a couple of ECU's reflashed this summer, they were amazing at the race dept. My son's 2016 M6000 and my 2017 soon-to-be Mod SX. Cat is awesome when it comes to this.
 
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I think it's safe to say no, seeing as even earlier silber reflashed for the alpha yielded no reverse because there are changes to the system like buttons controlling the guages. 18 would not be able to be reflashed to the 19 while working in the 18 chassis.

But been wrong before, that's my deduction from the info given.
 

kiliki

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the 18 has different bar controls than the 19 this is why silber had to do an update to the 19 flash.
 

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No. Early release 2018 had an update. Dealers can only flash something that is prescribed by Arctic Cat such as a service bulletin. They do no have the ability to choose and install different maps into the ECU.
 
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