Hi all,

I bought a tuning box from here; http://kingquick.co.uk/store/home.php, just under a year ago now. All has been well with the car obviously pulling better etc etc,

However the other day my mate was parked up in his vrs at tickover and his just seemed to sound a bit smoother than mine. We both have 04 plates and his has roughly 80k on whereas mine has 48k. It had been bugging me for a few days so I decided to remove the tuning box tonight for a little test. Sure enough mine sounded a little smoother and how can I put it 'relaxed' without the tuning box on.

What I want to know is, should I worry about running the car with the box or is it just a normal characteristic. There are no other strange noises with the box on, perhaps just whistles a little more as the turbo spools up quicker but I am hoping to keep my vrs a bit longer and don't fancy any big un-neccesary bills.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers Joe

if its a digital box, I wouldn't worry..

I ran my mark I with a cheap resistor mod box on for about 50,000 miles! lol... only damage that did was clog up the EGR valve, but that could arguably have happened anyway...

Hi all,

I bought a tuning box from here; http://kingquick.co.uk/store/home.php, just under a year ago now. All has been well with the car obviously pulling better etc etc,

However the other day my mate was parked up in his vrs at tickover and his just seemed to sound a bit smoother than mine. We both have 04 plates and his has roughly 80k on whereas mine has 48k. It had been bugging me for a few days so I decided to remove the tuning box tonight for a little test. Sure enough mine sounded a little smoother and how can I put it 'relaxed' without the tuning box on.

What I want to know is, should I worry about running the car with the box or is it just a normal characteristic. There are no other strange noises with the box on, perhaps just whistles a little more as the turbo spools up quicker but I am hoping to keep my vrs a bit longer and don't fancy any big un-neccesary bills.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Cheers Joe

So the motor was running at idle speed when you realized the sound?

The motor equipped with the tuning box seems to run with the thicker fuel mixture than it'd normally run without the tuning box. Maybe that's the origin of the sound you heard?

I had a £350 tuning box and had 40000miles without any problems but then the problems started poor mpg lumpy idle clogged CAT.I will now stick to custom remaps.