A few years back when I got my fabia remapped everyone was for jabba sport, they where the best and everyone went there for there for there maps. These days I'm looking into remapping my octavia and not once have they been brought up? Everyone is for shark these days. How come?

Personal experience would be my guess. Speak to boss fox about Jabba, he will sing their praises. Jabba also run a race car iirc, so most likely will be very busy.

Same thing happened with amd(the original not rebranded big boys toys),but from what people have been saying shark are very good

Edited 26 September, 201312 yr by MR G

Can personally recommend shark performance stage 1 remap.. Smooth power all through the rev range. Mines running 166bhp and 400nm torque with no other mods.

I've got my octavia mapped by jabba and its sweet lol. 240bhp and 270flbs

Personal experience would be my guess. Speak to boss fox about Jabba, he will sing their praises. Jabba also run a race car iirc, so most likely will be very busy.

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Shark have concentrated more on the forum/remap market and been more active on forums.

Hence they get used more and people tend to recommend what they have.  Plus they have a number of resellers/dealers.

 

Jabbasport are still around, but do other work too, like running some VAG race cars for people and taking on projects for the mentally disturbed (me).

In all honesty they have let their internet/forum presence slip a bit which they are aware of and hopefully will rectify.

 

My Yeti has a Jabbasport map and if you ask anyone who was at Combe what it goes like, the answer is quite well.

Many a Fabia and Octy mapped by other companies were passed that day.

And I still have my fully functional DPF too!

 

They till do a lot of stuff, arguably more than many other companies.

They just don't have the time to get on here talking about it.

I always use them as I get a straight opinion and they really do know how to set a car up.

+1 for Jabbasport.

 

I think I would also look at and I mean this with respect, who (and what stage of car etc they have) is saying what.

 

50 people all going crazy over a generic remap from a company posting up recommending them

 

or a select few with either a little more knowledge or just plain crazy specs on their car.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkCwFkOZoOY

 

The few or the many? Your call.....

Edited 28 September, 201312 yr by T. Spark

When I actually wanted some support from JabbaSport they left me dangling sadly. I had a Koni shock die on me, so I contacted JabbaSport, from whom I had bought them. No-one phoned me back. So I complained on these very forums and I got a PM saying to contact someone or other. I phoned again and asked for the person but I was told they were doing a remap. They didn't call me back. In the end another Koni dealer contacted me offering to swap out the defective shock absorber and they got my business next time.

I have no doubt that JabbaSport do good work, but if you want support, Shark leave them standing.

I too remember the early days with my Vrs, Jabba or Amd ? Went the Amd route as I live in Bicester and they were just down the road, 3 of the guys now run APS in Brackley and I will always use their knowledge on the cars I own.

Some companies don't shout to much on forums but provide very good services, just look at APS`s gold service awards

 

Phil

I've used both for mapping, and run a Shark map at the moment. Chiefly because of location and the switchable mapping ability, not because it may appear to be a populist choice, or 'flavour of the month'.

 

Overall, I've been more impressed with Shark's customer service. That's because I feel they went above and beyond for me and I received excellent, personal service. That's not meant to reflect badly on Jabba at all; I was pleased with the work, and remap, I've had from them previously.

Ive used Jabba in the past - for both remapping and servicing and I really cant fault them in anyway. The servicing is done pretty meticulously there and they took my standard Octy mk1 4x4 turbo to new levels with arb's, koni suspension, bigger brakes etc etc. I did start to get the feeling that they were happiest doing servicing work or tried and tested mods (projects like the CityGoGo would say otherwise however) but overall a great place to take the car.

Agree, I had quite a bit of upgrade work done there. And if I was in that area of the country if would be my go-to servicing place.

I had most of the work done on my fabia by jabba. I couldn't fault them.

Why haven't I used them lately? Because I've tired very hard to keep away from that slippery slope! Though I'm just about to start sliding again!

Would I use Jabba, if they provided the service I require then yes why not.

IIRC his sail barge was blown up close to the Sarlacc pit HTH

I can't rate my Jabba map highly enough.

 

Personally i've always found they were happier with a spanner in their hand than a phone or keyboard.

They still provide a top quality service - although some of their pricing can seem a bit steep in the present market - and if they are good enough to be heavily involved in motorsport they are good enough for road cars.

 

It's possible that they have too much work during racing season to spend time promoting themselves on forums, and maybe not enough capacity to deal with an influx of work if they were actively hunting for work....

I bought some injectors from them for my car,which jabba WERE gonna map.

Once they found out I was getting the car mapped at R-Tech they spat there dummy out and refused to supply injector details and part numbers,which should have been supplied with the injectors!

I've seen,driven and heard jabba mapped cars and tbh I wasn't impressed with things like lumpy idles due to poor/non existent injector scaling!

There's also the problem I had with the IHI TIP adapter they were going to supply...it was £65+vat....but once they got wind I was going to R-Tech the price shot up to £140 odd +vat.....

And the friend of mine who took his car up there to get mapped....left waiting due to a jabba employee being a retained fireman who got called out! Laughable to say the least!

Make your own minds up but me? Never again!

P1SS takers if you ask me!

And the friend of mine who took his car up there to get mapped....left waiting due to a jabba employee being a retained fireman who got called out! Laughable to say the least!

I think that's a bit much. Too many local authorities won't pay for full-time firefighters, so you have to make allowances for retained firefighters. I'm 100% certain you'd be wanting the guy to come to you if your house was on fire rather than remap someone's car, even if it did put them to some inconvenience.

I was happy with my jabba map but must admit I wasn't too keen on the customer service. When I picked the car up my steering wheel wasn't straight, went back to them straight away and they just shrugged it off and said " yeah your tracking will just need doing" i said we'll it was straight when I brought it in! They did sort it but there was no apology or friendliness, just shrugs and straight faces. That's the main reason I'm going shark this time and not back there

I think that's a bit much. Too many local authorities won't pay for full-time firefighters, so you have to make allowances for retained firefighters. I'm 100% certain you'd be wanting the guy to come to you if your house was on fire rather than remap someone's car, even if it did put them to some inconvenience.

I'm not getting into the politics on retained firefighters etc!

I'm simply reporting the facts!

Why would there be no contingency plan for a situation like this?

No matter which way you swing the bat,this sort of thing just shouldn't happen to people who drive long distances to your place of business to get work done!

Simples!

+1 for Jabba.

 

Jabba concentrate on VAG cars whereas I have found Shark posts where they state they are Volvo specialists!

I hear what you're saying, but it is possible to specialise in more than one marque.

you hear good and bad stories about all chip tuning and remap vendors really, at the end of the day it's pot luck when you modify the ecu on a car, some last out, some end up blowing up, that's life.. Most of the people that have had serious problems after remaps are the ones where thier car is hangin' in the first place.

It's interesting the way it's gone now really, anybody with a laptop and a £100 piece of kit and a 50 pence map file from china can call themselves a tuner nowadays hence where the cowboys come from, there's a geezer down the road from me who works out of his garage at home, and there's a queue as long as your arm of young lads waiting to be done at £150 a pop, and most of those maps are stuff that has been ripped off or copied from reputable companies maps like superchips or custom code etc, 99% of those guys leave there happy as larry, the disgruntled 1% are the ones who break their cars through the extra power and thrashing it..

I've had good experience with jabbasport in the past, but I'm talking years ago, and I found them to be quite helpful and knowledgeable, I've never had any personal dealings with shark so I can't comment on them but the forum consensus seems to hold them in high regard.

+1 for Jabba.

Jabba concentrate on VAG cars whereas I have found Shark posts where they state they are Volvo specialists!

If we're talking remaps then one thing to think about is ecu's come from same sources eg bosch and Siemens. So vag 1.8t dbw use the Bosch me 7.5 ecu. Astra h vxr uses an me 7.6. Yes they are different but still uses the same me 7 logic. You just need to learn the differences in the maps but their not completely different.

+1 for Jabba.

 

Jabba concentrate on VAG cars whereas I have found Shark posts where they state they are Volvo specialists!

 

I don't expect those posts were hard to find, given that we are active on several Volvo forums and our US operation concentrates solely on Volvo (and specifically the P1 chassis) at the moment!

 

It is possible to specialise in more than one thing, as faboka says above, the logic of many of these ECUs is shared. As shocking as it may be, we've even remapped the odd BMW and Mercedes too! Terrible I know!