Hi

Now my Yeti is out of warranty I was considering a remap.  Just because I've got at least 18 months with it left (I'm not buying a new car until the kids are out of car seats!)  and for a small remap fee and a surprisingly low insurance increase it could make it more fun.  Main reason is to improve torque and mid range overtaking/fun when driving home alone.

Anyone had it done?

Did it noticeably improve performance without major impacts on economy?

 

Cheers

BossFox has got the APR kit fitted and is running about 290bhp in his Yeti iirc, have a look at the project journal Twins &Yeti R

Hi

Now my Yeti is out of warranty I was considering a remap.  Just because I've got at least 18 months with it left (I'm not buying a new car until the kids are out of car seats!)  and for a small remap fee and a surprisingly low insurance increase it could make it more fun.  Main reason is to improve torque and mid range overtaking/fun when driving home alone.

Anyone had it done?

Did it noticeably improve performance without major impacts on economy?

 

Cheers

Have a read of my project thread as I was running a Shark Performance stage 1 remap on mine before I did the bigger turbo etc... Its the best bang per buck you can do to the 1.8 TSi lump and brings it alive. With the Shark remap it spooled very slightly sooner and provided not just a big fat mid range but it also revved out far better than other remaps I experienced on the 2 litre TSi lumps. Economy on cruise actually improved also! Cant recommend it enough.

After several months of contemplating this, I am also about to take the plunge and get my 1.8 TSI remapped. I had a talk with Revo here in Athens last week, and as they have just announced an end-of-year sale I am probably going to have it done over the coming weeks. The main reason for opting for Revo is the reputation of their dealer in Athens, which seems to be more reliable than others. They claim a power boost to about 210bhp on 95RON fuel, and a torque increase to about 34kgm (not sure what that is in lb ft, sorry!).

 

I had contacted Shark in the past, as they come highly recommended by many people on here, but as my Yeti is a later pre-FL model the ECU needs to be physically removed to be remapped, so I couldn't have an STS be sent by post to do it remotely.

 

I'm looking for pretty much what the OP is, i.e. a fatter torque curve all over, with possibly some additional grunt at the top end where the factory tune seems to run out of steam.

 

My main dilemma at the moment is whether to get the tune before Christmas, when I'm planning a longish road trip to enjoy the power gains, or wait until after the trip in case any reliability issues come up, which I would rather deal with while around Athens rather than in the middle of nowhere.

Lee aka YetiMan has his 1.8tsi Yeti running at over 300bhp and has done lots of big euro road trips, fully loaded with family etc and hasn't had any reliability issues at all, maybe pop him a message. 

Thanks Darrell, I've spoken to Lee in the past and have been admiring his monster for a while now - it's pretty much the perfect all-rounder as far as I'm concerned. It's more my own paranoia than anything else, one of those "you never know what could go wrong" thoughts. I've read horror stories of engines developing fuelling issues and cutting out / going on "limp" mode after remaps and -no matter how rare- if I were to be unlucky enough for something like this to happen I would rather be close to home.

 

When I push the engine I really push it, but on the other hand I'm also quite paranoid about taking care of it as much as I can (always take it easy when cold, allowing it to idle to cool off before turning it off, changing the oil every 6-7k miles) after having cracked a turbo in a 20VT Leon I used to own, so I doubt I should have any problems.