PCMTec Editon Required: Professional, One-Car Workshop, or Workshop. 

Return to stock can be accomplished without licensing the car for Editing. This is useful when you have a car (customer's car) that you are uncertain about the history of and want to get it back to the factory to ensure the vehicle drives as it should. 

The cost to return a vehicle to stock is 1 credit. If you have previously licensed this vehicle the cost is free, if you decide to fully license the vehicle for editing later this 1 credit will come off the total 3 credit costs. This is because our licensing is split into two separate licenses: Flash Edit (2 credits), and Flash Write (1 credit).

There are two methods to return a vehicle to stock.

• Method 1 is to return a vehicle to stock when you have the catch code or strategy for the vehicle (the catch code is usually located inside the driver's door).
• Method 2 is to return a vehicle to stock when you have a stock read of the vehicle you obtained from a tuner/user/support.

Method 1

1. Press "Calibration Tools" -> "Create Stock File/Calibration Merge".
   
2. Press "Create Stock File From Strategy or Catchcode".
   
3. Enter the catchcode from the door trim (or a different strategy that you wish to use as the stock base) and press "Create and Merge".
   
4. Press "Load File" and locate the file you read from the vehicle. This will merge the VID block and VIN from this file. 
   
5. Press Save/Open file.
6. Now write the vehicle by pressing "Read/Write Vehicle" and pressing "Write Vehicle". This will ask you to cycle the ignition (do so).
   
7. It will then prompt you to license (1 credit) the file. Click Yes.
   
8. Close the window after the successful license.
9. The editor will continue to flash the car.

Method 2 (use this method when you want to use a "stock file" from another vehicle you have read or have been provided with.

1. Use the "Manually Merge VID/Serial" Wizard to merge the information from the vehicle read with the stock file.
2. Close any files open in the editor and open the PCMTec Editor and select from the "Calibration Tools" Menu "Create Stock File/Calibration Merge". Click on the "Manually Merge VID/Serial" button.
   
3. For this example, I will open File 1 as the Stock file (eg from another vehicle) and file 2 as the Vehicle read (a file that has been read from the vehicle you are returning to stock).
   Click "Import VID Block from File 2" and "Import PCM Serial/VIN/TCM Serial from File 2". Then "Save File 1" and close the wizard.
   

4. For an unlicensed return to stock, you will need an Internet connection for the following steps.

   Connect to the vehicle and open the file you saved and Click on "Read/Write Vehicle".

5. Click "Write Vehicle", follow the normal instructions to start the flashing process and if your vehicle is unlicensed for flashing the following message will pop up. 

6. Successfully licensing the file click close and the Editor will flash the car. 

Job Done!