Tiger
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Are they worth the money? 50-60bhp and 70lbs extra torque for £400 on a Audi 1.8T.
http://amdtechnik.com/product.details.cfm?ProductID=1082&VariantID=2&ReferenceID=7434
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John
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Well worth the money, you'll get it done for half that if you look about though.
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Tiger
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Any downsides?
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John
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Not really, the usual of bits failing earlier but i've never heard of anything except things like clutches on the diesels because of too much torque.
Fuel consumption will go up if you boot it everywhere.
[Edited on 24-07-2008 by John]
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Robin
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quote:
Originally posted by John
Fuel consumption will go up if you boot it everywhere.
That'll be why Superchips are offering a "better fuel economy or your money back" promotion in Diesel chips then 
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John
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If you get a performance map and not an economy one obviously 
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Robin
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The Superchips ones aren't 'economy' maps. You get MASSIVE gains with some of the diesels and they still offer the money back thing.
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Fraser Young
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If your car is still under warranty, they will refuse to do pretty much anything mechanical if you've had a remap.
Even with the 'switchable' remap gimmicks (i paid extra for one), stick the car on a diagnostic machine and it will be pretty clear maps have changed.
Thats about the only BIG negative. That said, transformed my Skoda. Cheap, performance, reliable and better economy on commute. AMD/Revo get good reputation among VAG scene.
[Edited on 24-07-2008 by Fraser Young]
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John
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Skoda never noticed I had a remap in all the times I had it in at them.
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Tiger
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Cool, i'll be looking into that then.
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Tommy L
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Will you remap my audi please Robin  
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Robin
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Yes.
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Tommy L
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For free? So kind of you
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Robin
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No
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John
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Audi-A3-A4-A6-1-9-tdi-postal-ecu-chip-tune-remap_W0QQitemZ220257634778QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220257634778&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318
I used that guy for my fabia, was only 100 quid at the time though, was a brilliant map as far as I was concerned.
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Tommy L
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No
how much then? 
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dan-h
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after seeing the mess people have been in with cars not starting when they have had their ecu sent off in the post, I would steer clear of Ebay stuff. Especially if it involved sticking an ecu worth 500-1300 quid in a postbox!
take the car to a company with a proper premises and a dyno so that they can remap the car and check it over afterwards.
or take a risk and buy one of these off ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/KWP2000-KWP-2000-Plus-ECU-REMAP-Flasher-Tuning-Tool-UK_W0QQitemZ150273075841QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item150273075841
after all, thats all a lot of people use to do remaps. Its up to you, but remember that companies spend tens of thousands of pounds getting the right equipment and spend hundreds of hours perfecting map files. Do you really think you would get this knowledge and experience/research and development in a tool that costs 60 quid off ebay or by sticking your ecu in a postbox
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John
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The guys you post it to on ebay do exactly the same as any other company that flashes a generic map though.
I posted mine away and it started first time 
Just looked and the guy I posted has 100% feedback as well, so none of his customers have had problems it seems.
[Edited on 24-07-2008 by John]
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dan-h
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I would dispute that, do you really think that someone that charges 100 quid on ebay has written the files on a dyno and has tried and tested them on real cars has the same equipment and knowledge as people like Awesome Gti and others that charge 350+ ?
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Hammer
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Has Dave A had a name change?
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John
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Yes, awesome gti buy the maps from other people as well, I have had one from the guy, i'm betting you haven't, come back when you have experience of it.
I also don't know why this comes up everytime somebody asks about remaps.
I've posted my experience, somebody always comes on and says how if you don't pay 1 million dollars it will blow your engine up, even though they all do exactly the same.
It's normally all related to the same person as well 
[Edited on 24-07-2008 by John]
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dan-h
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I spoke to awesome Gti and they said they write all of their maps on their dyno
I agree that I have not had a postal remap from the guy you used but I know of other postal remaps that have gone very wrong.
There are many ways of getting the job done, its my opinion that I would prefer to drop my car off at a tuners workshop, let them do it, take all of the risk out of it and have it dyno tested all in 1 go. I dont trust the royal mail with a postcard let alone my ecu.
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John
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I have never disputed a custom map will be better, what I have always said is I don't believe a custom map to be 3 or 400 quid better than the generic postal one.
If awesome write a map on the dyno then use that map on other cars thats still a generic map exactly the same as anybody else would flash onto the ecu.
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Tommy L
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You work for dave a dont you dan?
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John
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What a surprise that is.
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