So just to clarify something in regards to a remap on a TSI petrol. If the ECU is not encrypted (as Ben at Shark has always found them so far) then does it need to be removed to be remapped or can it be done through the OBD port?

So just to clarify something in regards to a remap on a TSI petrol. If the ECU is not encrypted (as Ben at Shark has always found them so far) then does it need to be removed to be remapped or can it be done through the OBD port?

Mine is a 2011 TSI and Awesome did my REVO remap through the OBD port.

Lovely thank u for that

Lovely thank u for that

no problem, I can recommend revo its superb

Mines is a 2011 TSI and I just had my map done via Shark Performance STS.

Hello Friends,

if someone is buying a car such as the VRS, why would you want it chipped?

I once spent £500 at a Cardiff specialist, to have my Fiat Multipla chipped. I believe it's the biggest mistake I've ever made.

Yes, it transformed the Multipla's performance, but the timing belt snapped 2000 miles short of the scheduled 72000 service, with my wife driving! Not good and I'm still not forgiven - even after 7 years!!

THese days I'm more sedate in my driving style, and look to squeese as much MPG as I can.

Frank.

Remaps dont just offer extra power, for example my Superb now returns better MPG since it was remapped by Shark, as you do not need to drive the car so hard to get decent performance.

I once spent £500 at a Cardiff specialist, to have my Fiat Multipla chipped. I believe it's the biggest mistake I've ever made

Yes, it transformed the Multipla's performance, but the timing belt snapped 2000 miles short of the scheduled 72000 service, with my wife driving! Not good and I'm still not forgiven - even after 7 years!!

I think the lesson here is don't buy a fiat lmao. Sorry mate had to crack that joke. On a serious note though on a turbocharged car that is heavily restricted from the factory a remap transforms the performance and I've driven a heavily modified leon Cupra for 5 years and not had a single problem other than outer cv joints which neither here or there.

Edited 28 April, 201115 yr by dainott

if someone is buying a car such as the VRS, why would you want it chipped?

To make a good car even better. Your timing belt would of probably failed anyway without it being 'chipped'. I'm not being funny either but a Skoda octavia is a bit different from a fiat multipla too.

i have been doing some digging , superchips tell me that the 2011 tfsi engines they have came across do not have the ecu encripted , but all the diesel"s are all encripted , they can get rouund it though , still think the untraceble bluefin is best for me

Hello Friends,

if someone is buying a car such as the VRS, why would you want it chipped?

I once spent £500 at a Cardiff specialist, to have my Fiat Multipla chipped. I believe it's the biggest mistake I've ever made.

Yes, it transformed the Multipla's performance, but the timing belt snapped 2000 miles short of the scheduled 72000 service, with my wife driving! Not good and I'm still not forgiven - even after 7 years!!

THese days I'm more sedate in my driving style, and look to squeese as much MPG as I can.

Frank.

I think the problem is FIAT

I started modding my car at about 4k miles. It was still going strong when i just sold it recently at 67k miles and it was heavily modified.

I changed the cambelt after 52k miles purely for my own peace of mind. If you look after it and know what the limits are then you can't really go wrong.

I think the problem is FIAT

I started modding my car at about 4k miles. It was still going strong when i just sold it recently at 67k miles and it was heavily modified.

I changed the cambelt after 52k miles purely for my own peace of mind. If you look after it and know what the limits are then you can't really go wrong.

What you driving now Carl?

Still have my Diseasel L&K for now. But that goes soon

The New one is on order (Anthracite 2.0 TSi DSG Estate) and gets built week 21. I should get it around mid June. I can't wait i'm like a kid waiting for Xmas

Not getting mine till. Week 35 it's torture :-(

Has anyone used angeltuning.co.uk?

I've not heard anyone mention them and they come out to your house to do the work, so locality isnt important

I think the problem is FIAT

I think its bizarre that people who are enlightened enough to get over the past negative image of Skoda make jibes like this.

My family and friends have owned 20+ properly maintained FIATS over the last 30 years and none of them were unreliable or needed any engine work other than one head gasket on a 903cc Uno very over enthusiastically thrashed by a 21 year (me).

FIAT invented the CR technology for diesels that VAG have just finally adopted some years after everyone else and their diesel engines have been fitted to Vauxhalls,SAABs and Suzukis in recent years.

By far the most unreliable car (and expensive to run) I've ever owned over the last 27 years (including 6 Fiats) was the 2005 Volvo V50 Diesel I had just before my current VRS.

(That Volvo of course was a posh Ford Focus with a Peugeot/Citroen engine)

I'm convinced that Octavias are good reliable motors, the taxi boys would have found them out by now otherwise, but lots of Vectras are also taxis..with FIAT diesel engines!

Edited 1 May, 201115 yr by juan27

i have been doing some digging , superchips tell me that the 2011 tfsi engines they have came across do not have the ecu encripted , but all the diesel"s are all encripted , they can get rouund it though , still think the untraceble bluefin is best for me

There is no such thing as an untraceable remap for your car!

Hey fella dont take it to seriously there will always be jokes made about manufacturers that have a unreliable background. People made jokes about skoda's for years even though they have always had an excellent rally pedigree and only now after, say 5 reliable and excellent value for money cars have people taken to the brand.

Fiat have the 500 now which is a cracking little car with huge sales which has improved the company no end. The issues for Fiat over the years has been cheap design (electrics and plastics etc more than mechanical) and ive worked on quite a few Fiats and they were always put together in a un methodical way which is why the Jap and German (mostly with originally british design involvement might i add) cars were miles ahead!

Everyone is now realising this as no one can afford to produce a crap car in todays market and a prime example of how quickly a company can gain a decent name is Kia.

P.S. Oh yea sorry for taking the thread off course :(

Edited 1 May, 201115 yr by dainott

There is no such thing as an untraceable remap for your car!

So on a 2.0 TSI using either Bluefin or your STS and you haven't had to take the ECU out to bench flash, switching the map back to stock still leave traces?

I'm confused. If you've bench flashed it then I can see you leaving fingerprints but using either Bluefin or STS to reload the stock map I don't see why.... :S

does ben mean that if the map is on the car then it is 100% traceable? im with you though Ian that if its removed with the sts/bluefin handset then its the 100% stock map so not modified at all, howver whgat about the flash counter etc.

Also if they update/reflash your ECU during a service, does the handset automatically accept the new updated std map?

The flash counter doesn't get reset by the STS for definate even though it has the option too. At least it doesn't on my Diseasel. Im not sure about the Bluefin.

The flash counter doesn't get reset by the STS for definate even though it has the option too. At least it doesn't on my Diseasel. Im not sure about the Bluefin.

I seem to remember Bluefin not resetting the flash counter on a TSI Scirocco abd it incremented everytime it was flashed. :no: