Have seen VagCom metioned several times on this forum' date=' what is it?

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Check out the My Diagnostics forum on here for more info

Chris

Thanks!

Anyhow, I'm certainly not going to risk at

Theres a guy on seatcupra.net running a Toledo' date=' IIRC, that has been running with a Revo remap for over 110,000 kms and counting...

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Seem to recall there was someone on here who ran a mildly modified Octy vRS to around 130k, of which about 10k of that was on track... :rubchin:

Rob.

Barrie, did you use the same tuning box as that which Stu is currently offering?

Yes I did, gave it to my brother who is now using (and enjoying it) in a VW.

If the over fueling (leading to extra black smoke) is really damaging my engine then that damage is ocurring now following my jabba re map as well. Both mods have caused similar amounts of extra smoke.

When I collected my car I was told by jabba to expect the extra smoke as it was a "feature" of the re map.

Now interestingly enough the previous car I had remapped was a JTD Punto (go on laugh) which was upped from 85 to 100hp using an upsolute chip fitted by Van Akken. The results were brilliant. Car far faster and smoother and NO extra smoke at all. Makes you think.

Personally i'm not convinced of the 'Tuning Box' method! So i will be looking at something else overall :skatebrd:

Now interestingly enough the previous car I had remapped was a JTD Punto (go on laugh) which was upped from 85 to 100hp using an upsolute chip fitted by Van Akken. The results were brilliant. Car far faster and smoother and NO extra smoke at all. Makes you think.

Van Akken also do plug in boxes for TDi PD engined cars I think, has anyone had any experience of them, do they also result in extra smoke for a vRS ?

Seem to recall there was someone on here who ran a mildly modified Octy vRS to around 130k, of which about 10k of that was on track... :rubchin:

You sure that wasn't his friend? AFAIK, Jon was running a standard 1.4-16v

Chris

Van Akken also do plug in boxes for TDi PD engined cars I think, has anyone had any experience of them, do they also result in extra smoke for a vRS ?

Anything that puts more fuel in the engine is going to result in extra smoke!

Chris

Anything that puts more fuel in the engine is going to result in extra smoke!

Chris

Disagree. Smoke equals overfueling for the combustive ability of the engine at that point of its revs, i.e. too much fuel relative to air entering engine. Thats why turbo engines smoke as the turbo winds up but don't once the turbo has reached optimum revolutions and is maintaining volumetic efficiency.

I thought the black smoke was caused by worn injectors causing droplets form in the mixture. With good injectors, a combustable mist is formed, but with worn ones the droplets burn and hence you get black smoke. During the MOT they rev the nuts off a diesel engine to determine the condition of the injectors. This raises the question, if you have a remap, then should you replace the injectors more often?

Chris, do you get much extra smoke with your tuning box?

Chris, do you get much extra smoke with your tuning box?

At the risk of causing a riot, no the car is not smokey at all, even under full throttle, but I seem to be the only person who finds this - even Jase's standard car smoked more than mine!

I heard somewhere that if you regularly thrash a diesel () it shouldn't run smokey and as mine is now almost run in (72k ticked over this morning ) then maybe this is the reason. Obviously, come MOT time next month, we'll see if it is officially smokey

Chris

I heard somewhere that if you regularly thrash a diesel () it shouldn't run smokey and as mine is now almost run in (72k ticked over this morning ) then maybe this is the reason. Obviously' date=' come MOT time next month, we'll see if it is officially smokey

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Its funny that you say that... mine doesnt smoke either