I know these plug in chips have been discussed a lot but I'm a little confused by so few sites offering chips for the 1.4TSI.

Has anyone had any experience with chips for this engine? I'm keen to get more power out if my Yeti but I want something that's easy to remove for services or if any warranty repairs need to be carried out.

I'm perfectly happy with the engine in my 1.2 Elegance and will happily take economy over oomph but I appreciate other owners may have different preferences. When you say "I want something that's easy to remove for services or if any warranty repairs need to be carried out" perhaps the other question that needs to be asked is whether dealers' diagnostic equipment can detect whether these chips have been fitted in the past, even if removed for servicing/warranty claims. If so it could defeat the object of the exercise of removing it/them and, certainly in respect of a warranty claim or looking for a goodwill gesture, put the owner in a rather difficult position.

 

Presumably fitting a tuning chip is something that would have to be declared to an insurer or potentially any insurance claim could be rejected? 

The add on chips have some fans but some of them only operate by fooling the ECU by corrupting the information from the sensors the engine management relies on. Re mapping the ECU is something different and in skilled hands seems to work well. If you materially alter your car without telling your insurers the risk they have agreed to insure has changed and they may not feel bound to honour their coverage. So expensive add ons or performance mods may be met with either a complete refusal of any claim or a refusal to replace fancy accessories. On my bike policy they limit replacement to standard parts for example and only cover me for performance mods on the basis they do not raise power by more than 5%.

Skoda may cover failures of parts unaffected by modifications but are highly likely to cover any part which may have been compromised by a modification. 

In each case you either agree with them in advance or take the consequences. I cannot see any good basis for deciving them if you are not willing to accept the possible outcome.

Well, warranty issues aside, has anyone used a chip with the 1.4 and if so what kind of improvement did you get?

I've gone from a Fabia VRS to the Yeti and it's fairly deflating. I should have gone for the 1.8TSI I know.

I believe TMC motorsport are well thought of in the Fabia forum.

They do a chip for the 122bhp 1.4 tsi,claiming 147bhp and 250nm.

If you check out the Superchips website (under Octavia,) you'll find some nice graphs for the 1.4 tsi remap.

I believe TMC motorsport are well thought of in the Fabia forum.

They do a chip for the 122bhp 1.4 tsi,claiming 147bhp and 250nm.

If you check out the Superchips website (under Octavia,) you'll find some nice graphs for the 1.4 tsi remap.

Cheers! I'll take a look!

I've been told by shark that very few of the 1.4TSI's can have plug in tuning as the ecu is locked. They tell me I'd have to replace the ecu to even begin any tuning.

So that's kind of made my mind up, it's getting traded in for a new Octy VRS