There is a lot of misinformation and misguided hatred. Just to give some background we are an independent shop that is an APR master distributor that has easily done hundreds of MK6 ecus, of which I would conservatively say I have personally performed about 75% of those.
On to this thread. Playing "devils advocate" my only only gripe is that the time frame was very abrupt for diagnostics, unto having someone to be responsible for a 3rd parties repair. What I find odd was the statement of "June 26, 2014 – I had not heard a word from APR or GMP so I call GMP." The first part being about APR, there was no mention of APR, or anyone contacting them previously so why expect word from them?!? I dont mean this as a negative in saying the OP to be upset, just doesnt make sense.
Secondly, GMP only had a 1 day notice from the time they were told till the repair was done. This makes me think the ecu was already ordered, and set for repair before GMP even knew what was going on. Again there is nothing wrong with this but also not reasonable for GMP then to immediately turn around and issue a refund. From a business perspective they have to cover their bases as well. For example years back I had a customer want us to pay for his ecu a couple weeks after we flashed it on a mk5 gli(keep in mind its a port flash), here it turned out his fuel pump went, kept cranking the car till it died, then tried jumping it with reverse cables and fried the ecu and airbag module. Not saying this happened with the OP but they should have the right to assess the situation as well before forking out a bunch of money.
GMP has been an APR dealer for years and can vouch for the multitude of upgrades they have done. I highly doubt someone did something malicious or negligent on this particular ecu to have everyone saying that they dont know what they are doing or botched the install. I have stated this in other posts and some will argue forever(even though they have never opened an ecu) but the simple fact of opening the ecu can sometimes cause issue. Think about it, even with the roughly 15 failures reported on here, I think they have all been generally 6 months to a year later. If someone "destroyed" these delicate ecu's it would not have taken so long for issues to present, let alone a common length of time later.
To beat a dead horse blaming APR holds no water(no pun intended) as they have nothing really to do with it. That would be like installing windows on a dell computer, something electrical inside the computer craps out, then blaming windows? The same goes for any tuner whos software is installed in a mk6 ecu.
Out of all the mk6 ecus we have done, there are only 3 failures I know of, again 6+ months later. Shit happens and highly doubt GMP did anything negligent/wrong from an install end. Im sure it will get worked out in the end but everyone freaking out because it wasn't resolved in a the first couple days is crazy.
-Tom
