Just looking for peoples experiences and thoughts on this...

Basically a friend of mine had a management system fitted to his car and mapped by a well known mapper.

The car made well under the expected power level and said mapper had three goes at trying to correct this to no avail.

The car is now being looked at by another mapper but we have hit a problem.

The original mapper wont give unlock code to the map for fear of it being copied and now says if anyone else want to alter the map they will have to re map the entire car base, idle, cold start and everything.

this will obviously cost my friend ALOT more cash rather than just a few hours or so to alter the map already on the car.

I have experience of using two very well known mappers and both have shared maps with no other thought apart from to the get the best from my car.

Other friends of mine have used other TOP mappers and have full acces to their maps with no probs other than voiding any mapping warranty etc.

So th long and the short of it is....does this mapper have the right to refuse my friend the right to a map that he has paid for and therfore owns?