Also, I guess it's time to announce the price increase. As much I try to keep things as affordable as possible to everyone, I need to raise the price from $450 plus shipping to $500 plus shipping to offset my increased costs. This is for new customers only.
When I first started doing this, it was more of a hobby thing for me and still is. You guys have been great and have been keeping me super busy! I never really expected it to take off as much as it has. It is to the point where I have seriously considered quitting my day job to give this the attention it deserves and reduce my backlog. However, it's hard to let go of the stability of a steady paycheck and I'm not quite to the point where I would be comfortable enough to make that plunge.
Having said that, the harness work is VERY time consuming and not exactly very profitable. All said and done, I might make minimum wage doing them. The biggest reason I do them (aside from the fact that I actually enjoy it) is that I make decent money in a small amount of time doing the computer flashing. That doesn't mean that I won't do a harness for you if you are going to go to a local tuner. It does mean that you won't get the discount that I provide doing both services together.
As far as going to your local tuner goes, I can't tell you what they can and can't do. So, you need to quiz them rather extensively on what their abilities are with the Explorer computers.
When I was shopping around for tuning software to do these I found the support for the Explorer to be very minimal from all of the big name companies. Their focus was on getting you a little more HP or a little more MPG on a stock vehicle, not swapping it in to a vehicle that doesn't have the OBD2 provisions.
I ended up paying someone to develop the software that I use and to focus on the needed settings that allow me to do the things that the big name guys don't or can't. As a result, I get messages on here from people that found me through Google to fix things after their dyno session. I also get a few from people that bought hand held tuners that will not even disable PATS properly. So, quiz your tuner on his abilities extensively before you dyno it, that way you don't have to send it to me to get it fixed later.