EPA Forces Devastating Update to COBB AccessPORT 

There should be a company that's permitted by the epa to test vehicles after the tune, to prove it's not dumping more nasties than allowed. Seems that could be a compromise and prove tuners aren't contributing to increased pollution levels. A well tuned built car doesn't have to pollute more.

Thank you!!! I’ve been using Cobb for about 2 years and have expanded to using on 3 vehicles all Subarus 02, 04, 2010. I think Cobb totally dropped a bomb on everyone. They are a business but they could have given its customers a heads up. They are a business and trying to keep EPA happy but I have a feeling that the EPA will change regulations again, it’s a big money game. Cobb I’m sure has spent a ton on CARB compliance what is going to happen when something changes and it’s no longer compliant. I’m glad you mentioned about the antique or gas guzzler luxury tax like fine Italian vehicles have to pay but I’m open for a one time fee but not yearly. I think all of these cars that are running in limp mode are more damaging then a fully/correctly tuned vehicle. I’ve been wanting to see a comparison of 2 identical vehicles. One EPA friendly other can have normal deletes and proper tune who sniffs cleaner. Thanks for being supportive of the modded community and not saying what we’ve all been hearing this week.

Back in December I bought Cobb 1300cc injectors, cobbs full flexfuel kit, top feed fuelrail conversion, afpr and Stainless reinforced PTFE fuel lines for equal length feed to the rails.... Conservatively $2,500, not counting the ethanol rated pump. I am a salty salty Subaru owner.

I haven't updated my Accesport in months lol my AP is going nowhere near my computer lol

Welcome to what the EPA has done to the Diesel world and tuners.

I believe EPA will change regulations again , but I am very disappointed in cobb bc I just bought a j pipe and the same day it arrived to my house is the same day they no longer provide the stage 2 tune so now I can’t even put the j pipe on my car .. smh 🤦‍♂️

We can't have shit man. Discontinued cars, aftermarket parts no longer working. 1 states regulations affects all of us, smh.

I'm in the build process of my 15 STi for a solid street setup (550-600whp+) going closed deck, head works, rotated turbo, already have the tgv deletes, im planning to do air pump deletes, etc. and all of the sudden this BS with the EPA just blast us away, spoke with my tuner he told me to standby on buying parts and wait until they can come up with a solution.

What I want to know is what happens to people in non emissions counties, or even countries that don’t have these types of emissions laws? Doesn’t seem fair to me

The only issue with the change is you cannot get around emissions in a tune map file. That's it. There's nothing else to complain about.

This is huge in the industry

On my xt and previous impreza, if the cel is on, the cruise control is disabled. The cel is annoying but could just be covered. I like cruise though and that would suck having to constantly clear a cel to take a road trip...

Sucks... as modifying mine has started... and now its back to square one as only visual mods can continue to be done with out clear line of sight

As far as the Subaru TGV's are concerned... Those are literally TPS sensors just like the one on your throttle body. I'm going to order some spares and see how it goes just plugging them in sans OEM TGVs because my 06 STI can't run top feed injectors with OEM TGVs

will the old off the shelf tunes work?

I don’t care I’m still running my Subaru as is with my mods I’m not changing nothing I still get my car inspected regardless

Just imagine if you waited over a year to have your Subaru fixed like I did and had your car scheduled to be tuned on Monday and you’d get to finally drive your subi home that night for the first time after you spent every dollar you had to fix it which I’ve done… Annnnndd you no longer can tune it with the acessport you spent $700 on.

I have a dc5 rsx/integra type s with hondata kpro if they come after them I will just get a haltech not worried not one bit

Romraider OpenECU tactrix. Full stand alone. Hardware emulation circuits via FGPA devices. Motec.

I just got an ecoboost, should I still buy a Cobb access port or should I look into alternatives for tuning at this point

I know this is an old post but it seems things have evolved for the better?

Subaru guys put your vape down lol

So its safe to use the old software and use the old one rather than updating it? I bought my cobb last year and haven’t have time to install it meaning it has an old software. Im planning to install it now. Im running catless and my engine light turns on and off. Its been doing that for years and my car is perfectly fine.

Hey its Dino

not to mention the way they marketed flex fuel discontinuing and sold out of them

So is it possible to get the Subarus tuned without a Cobb access port

This sucks for the subaru community..it has no effect on mazdaspeeds and some other platforms

what else comes with the polititions who r anti epa

I got my final remap tune thank God. I will no longer be supporting this company as a result of their changes. Time to go open source.

Go woke go broke!

Can I still run a catless dump pipe for my 2012 subaru wrx with the cobb software?