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Hammer
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14th Mar 06 at 12:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do these plug and play tuning chips you find on ebay actually work and give the power increases the sellers are quoting?

Im highly suspect that they dont but a lot of the sellers have 100% feedback and the people buying them seem to be pleased at the results, just wondering what you guys thought?
CorsAsh
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14th Mar 06 at 12:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It's all bollocks. Theres a reason proper ECU upgrades cost so much, that being that they actually work.

The chips or resistors on eBay just make your car overfuel, which eventually fucks your engine up.
Carl
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14th Mar 06 at 12:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
your underestimating the amount of plonkers there are on ebay. You have to be a bit strange to believe and buy those chips in the first place, so its unlikely they will think its shit.
Stay away from them.
Steve
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14th Mar 06 at 12:55   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
placebo
Hammer
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14th Mar 06 at 12:57   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I did assume the placebo factor was working with the pikey jakes thinking their car had doubled in power by adding a resistor yes but then i doubted my pessimism in mankind and thought they maybe did do some good.
CorsAsh
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14th Mar 06 at 13:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If you have a turbo diesel, they're quite tunable in other ways. Kris TD was a member on here, did a fair bit to his 1.5TD and had a competant motor at the end of it.
Steve
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14th Mar 06 at 13:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah but to be fair, it was never fast
CorsAsh
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14th Mar 06 at 13:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Well it wasn't gonna set any land speed records

I think it was comparable to a GSi from what I remember.

[Edited on 14-03-2006 by CorsAsh]
John
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14th Mar 06 at 14:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Depending what you buy they do work.
New cdti's aren't as easy as turning screws unfortunately.
Greasemonkey
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14th Mar 06 at 15:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah Kris TD's car was on par with a standard GSI, not bad for a TD

 
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