TheBinarySheep

Sorry if I didn't make it clear. Yes, the tuner wants to replace my broken turbo with the L380X. His words were that he can tune the hell out of them. I'm assuming the L380 can also handle a small amount of tuning (it's cheaper than the L380X) so that could be a cheaper option if I don't plan on further modifications. In terms of the L380X, if I go that route, I'm assuming that alone won't produce any extra power over and above what I already have without supporting modifications such as down pipe and inlet pipe? I've submitted an enquiry to littco to see how many power the L380 can comfortably handle, as it doesn't say on the website.

Thanks for that. It's funny you mention littco, as I'm sure that's the turbo my original tuner has quoted me for the L380X. I'm planning on keeping the car. I've only had it since February! The cheapest option appears to be to get the original tuner to replace the turbo (£750 + labour) and then leave the map on and assume that the map is fine and it was the turbo that was the issue. I'd expect this to total just under £1,000. The other option is to have another tuner to the work, they don't want to use the littco turbo for some reason, and they want to put their own map on. I'd expects costs for all of this to be at least £1,600. The issue is, I don't really have any way to tell whether the map that is on the car at present played any part in the failure. Obviously, I know the remap played a part, but is there something to this specific map that's caused the problem that another map from another tuner wouldn't have caused.

Thanks for the comfort. The car is still under warranty as well until January.... but obviously I can't claim now as I've remapped it!

No, it was when I went to pick the car up, he mentioned that the IS38 turbo is weak and can go, and said that as a result he only boosts to 1.6 bar to protect it, citing that other tuners map to 1.8 bar. Turns out that most tuners map to 1.6 bar on a stage 1 anyway. The other tuner I've spoken to, have said that they hear of a few people that have had a remap done at the same place and their turbo goes at the end of the road. It looks like there's nothing I can do, I'll have to swallow the big pill. I'm waiting for the other tuner to come back tomorrow with prices for an OEM turbo and an uprated turbo. My original tuner has said it's £750 + vat for an uprated turbo, but I forgot to find out what brand it was so I don't know if it's any good, plus, I'm not sure I'm having them touch my car again! I had a problem with this specialist with my last car as well, I had a Mk3 VRS, just out of warranty, 48000 mile, water pump went. Got them to fix it, and a day or two later the car lost all of its coolant. I took the car back and they said the radiator had a leak, so I forked out £450 for that on top of the £750 I paid for the water pump. I believe they damaged the radiator while fixing the water pump, but I had no way to prove it so had to cough up. I've also asked them for prices for upgrades on the car, and they never get back to me, I should have stayed away.

£500 was for the remap I got a couple of weeks ago. I'll be taking to car somewhere else to get it fixed, and they'll charge £600 to undo the other remap and put their own on, so I'll have paid £1100 for two remaps! Then I've got to pay for a new turbo on top of that.

I'm not sure now whether to have the turbo replaced and the original map put back on, because this is going to be very expensive. £500 for the original map, £1000 for a turbo and then £600 for a new map to replace the old one. £2100 in total.

I paid debit card.

I didn't sign a thing. I don't think I'm going to have any comeback, but it would be good if I could even get the remap cost back. I've had issues with this VAG specialist in the past, and I've found their customer service to be terrible, so it's my fault for choosing them.

I was told it was tuned to 1.6 bar. which I believe is standard for stage 1.

It was a VAG specialist near me, they have their own 4x4 rolling road. Car is a 2018 model with 20,000 mile on the clock. It's done about 200-300 mile since the remap.

Sorry my first post was short, I was walking back from the school run. I've spoke to the guy that did the remap, he's said £750 + labour to fit a new turbo. He says the OEM turbo is weak and that I must have had a really weak one. I've rang another remap place, I've explained to them that I'd had my car remapped by an Audi specialist, the turbo has gone and they've said the turbo's are weak. Is this true... his first response "Was it remapped by XYZ", I said "Yes! How did you know", happens all the times with their remaps. So now not only do I need a new turbo, I'm going to have to pay to have the car remapped. I don't know where I stand in regards to getting any money back from the original mapper.

As the title says. Car remapped a week and a half ago. I lost all power and smoke was pouring out the back! almost £1000 for a new turbo and I’m guessing I have no comeback with the place that did the remap.

I've also noticed as well, that the Vega wheels look almost exactly the same as the ones on the new Audi RSQ3, just a difference size and painted black. https://www.netcarshow.com/audi/2020-rs_q3_uk-version/1280x960/wallpaper_0f.htm

I've toyed with the idea of having my standard sportline wheels painted black. Although I can't decide if there's too much black now.

Does anyone have any idea, on the 280, what exactly makes the car so quiet? is it the resonator or the back boxes? If you change the back boxes along, will you get DSG farts, or are they being remove by the resonator? I'm assuming changing just the back boxes will improve sound, and I do wonder if the OEM tips and valve controls can be cut and welded to new backboxes instead. I also wonder why the Golf R etc has a single large back box, but the 280 has two separate ones. Done for increased boot space?

I've watched some of their videos, problem is, they are 100 mile away. We have three Powerflow dealers in the North East, but the nearest one is 20 mile away, which isn't that far, but it's difficult to find the time to visit them to get some suggestions/costs. From Google, there's no one near me that does exhaust fabrication either. I have VAG specialist within a mile of my home, but they fit off the shelf exhaust solutions.

Heavy right foot at the minute whilst the remap is a novelty

Quick update. I’ve averaged 18MPG over the last 200 mile!!

oops In the meantime, I've emailed a Powerflow Dealer to see if I can get a cost to fit a new resonator, one that might let a bit more noise through.

I bought an ODBEleven and disabled the exhaust values (you can't do this on a 172 BTW), there's a bit more of a deep rumble lower down in the rev range, but not much difference at higher revs.

Here's a video of a superb 280 without a resonator Sadly it doesn't really tell you anything useful as I don't think the camera is in a good position.

To be honest, my Photoshop skills are very limited. I'm a software developer so I've had to pick up the basics along with they way. That image is about my limit

Quick photoshop, but I'm not a fan of the style to be honest, they just don't look right.

ah shame. I was hoping to hear the sound of it before I committed to having one installed.

While that’s an option, it’s significantly more expensive. would this blocked of part not reduce the impact the air intake will have? Is it not blocking airflow?