Noun : someone who mindlessly spends money on or pays someone to modify their car.
Did you hear about the guy with the BRZ?
Yeah dudes a huge kid ,he bought a turbo-whistle.

Kid (tuner term)
by just another tuner October 1, 2017
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receives check and pays (tuner,designer,builder,and fabricator) so they can market themselves to become the celebrity tuner
Neil Tjin is a total check tuner
by that other white guy March 14, 2010
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A person who compares themselves to Competition motorsport engine & electronic calibrator. Typically known for social media popularity, disabling important engine fail safe parameters such as detonation (knock) sensors.

These individuals lack the mechanical and electrical experience of working on said competition vehicles. They do not own level C (or better) technician tool boxes, completely incapable of tearing an engine down & putting it back together to even the simplest OEM specifications.

Typically these “tuners” carry themselves with a high pride in their “flame maps” and “gapping” the competition. When they in fact cannot even gap piston rings properly.
If you need a knock sensor to tune a car you are just a social media tuner.
by OneKneeToe June 13, 2021
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A person who compares themselves to Competition motorsport engine & electronic calibrator. Typically known for social media popularity, disabling important engine fail safe parameters such as detonation (knock) sensors.

These individuals lack the mechanical and electrical experience of working on said competition vehicles. They do not own level C (or better) technician tool boxes, completely incapable of tearing an engine down & putting it back together to even the simplest OEM specifications.

Typically these “tuners” carry themselves with a high pride in their “flame maps” and “gapping” the competition. When they in fact cannot even gap piston rings properly.
If you need a knock sensor to tune a car you are just a social media tuner.
by OneKneeToe June 13, 2021
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The tuner is another word for TV Remote that some old timers use.
Hey can you please hand me the tuner
by DragonSlayer1999 December 19, 2018
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The tuner is a car enthusiast (or as some call him a car guy)that will modify their car to achieve maximum performance.

There many non car people that considur tuners as "maniacs" beacause they love going fast and having loud cars,but this is not the case for a lot of them.Most people take their racecar to a track and race it there

The chosen cars are usually performance models of normal cars(hatchbacks,sedans,wagons,coupes etc).

Cars used for this are either jdm cars or eurocars,but the modern muscle cars are taking off in the tuner world

There are also the ones that only modify their cars on the outiside only.If done right with quality parts then they became stancers but if they use low quality parts off ebay and wish for example and they make the car generally worse they are considered ricers
Dude1:That supra was so cool!
Tunerdud:Yea bro i have a pop and crackel tune and a big turbo on it.
by ThatCarEnthusiast October 20, 2019
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