Hi folks,

Just been on e-bay and noticed this item for sale, has anyone had any dealings with it ? He seems to be having good feedback for the product. and at the moment its going for

Do you have a link to the auction?

At "only" 25bhp, it sounds like a crude tuning box. Not the finest in tuning devices but if you get it for

Try and find a Dragon tuning module they generally go for around

Hi Xavier

the link I went into was as below :-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/

Then tap in skoda in the search section, and have a look through the items they have for sale, I have seen this add there on quite a few occations.

They may be the same item that PDTDI is on about they only take a few mins to fit/take off according to the seller.

Cheers

Will ....

Not fitted it yet, it's sitting on a shelf but I have a german TDI powerbox sitting at home. Thought it best not to fit it quite yet though, as the car has done less than 2500 miles......

There are two main types of tuning box for the PDTDi.

The best type is a fully adjustable digital or analogue unit, these can be optimized and don't usually cause problems. They do sell for around

I have the second type, mentioned by Lee, on my PD100. It's been on for nearly 10k miles with no problems at all and has made the car much more driveable and much more economical It works by basically telling the ECU there is more air going into the engine than there is, which causes the ECU to put more fuel in the engine. More fuel = better acceleration

Side effect is apparently the car becomes more smokey under full throttle, but mine doesn't seem to be so I may leave it on for the MOT coming up in February and see if it passes with it on.

Mine was a shade over 30 quid (off eBay) and once I'd found some decent instructions, took about 2 minutes to fit.

Chris

I wonder if it would help to have something like the Ibiza Cupra TDI air intake on the Furby if one used a tuning box - surely then it would be getting more air, and thus, less smoke?

I wonder if it would help to have something like the Ibiza Cupra TDI air intake on the Furby if one used a tuning box - surely then it would be getting more air, and thus, less smoke?

It would be interesting to see as the tuning box simply tells the ECU there is a more air available than there is. You might find that if that much air was actually going into the engine, then the tuning box would be redundant! Air intake is on my list of things to do this year so I'll report back if I see any actual benefit

Chris

Slight misunderstanding here... basically the simple "tuning box" messes with the MAF sensor output altering its calibration..therefore the ECU "thinks" more air is flowing so permits a higher maximum fuel rate. The "tuning box" will likely mean that emissions will be affected at max bore as the engine will be over fuelling and will smoke. The ECU may decide that the MAF is faulty......

You can mess around with air intakes as much as you like and it wont make a jot of difference in a turbo diesel.

As far as I know the adjustable more expensive boxes work on measuring the fueling and airflow. The boxes increase fueling and can be adjusted to optimize the fuel to air ratio and thus maximise power and minimize smoke.

The cheaper resistor in a box modules just con the ecu into thinking the fuel temperture is different. They usually produce more smoke on full throttle and don't have as much gain as the proper modules.

On MY04 and later cars the ECU's have been known to pick these boxes up as a faulty fuel temp sensor when temperature drops.

Cheers

Lee