I have just had a new exhaust and sports cat fitted to my fabia vRS (Blue Flame) and was hoping to get it chipped/remapped in the next few months. I have been reading on this site that a lot of people have had clutch slipping problems as a result of the remaps. Does anyone have any suggestions so that I can get my car remapped/chipped and not have the clutch problem, but also not spend a great deal of money.

My car has done about 3k miles and I was thinking about getting it done after 5k.

I live in the northwest, so I would probably want someone localish to do it, ie Liverpool, Manchester or Preston.

Could any one suggest costs, performance gains, location of company locally that could remap my car without clutch problems.

Cheers

Hi - I have the blue flame exhaust and a Jabba map. Jabba limited the torque on my map to try and preserve the clutch.

The blue flame exhaust does free up quite a bit of extra torque.

Have a chat with Mike at Jabba - I know its not in the North West, but well worth the journey IMO.

If you use all the power all the time then yes , your clutch will suffer. I'm sure I've seen people killing them in 20k miles. If you show some restraint and don't get it remapped to the absolute limits then you'll see much more.

This is all one reason I got the JBS clutch - I can't be doing with the worries about one engine component suffering, when uprating another. sorry. I cleared (most) worries at the same time for peace of mind

I've had a remap on my car since it had 47 miles on the clock.

I ran it in properly, but since then I've just used the full rev range and not tried to set off in 2nd or boot it from idle in 6th... My clutch is fine after 14 months and 23k miles.

I've had a remap on my car since it had 47 miles on the clock.

I ran it in properly' date=' but since then I've just used the full rev range and not tried to set off in 2nd or boot it from idle in 6th... My clutch is fine after 14 months and 23k miles.[/quote']

Where did you get your remap done, how much did it cost and what sort of power have you got now.

My car is standard

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I have just had a new exhaust and sports cat fitted to my fabia vRS (Blue Flame) and was hoping to get it chipped/remapped in the next few months. I have been reading on this site that a lot of people have had clutch slipping problems as a result of the remaps. Does anyone have any suggestions so that I can get my car remapped/chipped and not have the clutch problem' date=' but also not spend a great deal of money.

My car has done about 3k miles and I was thinking about getting it done after 5k.

I live in the northwest, so I would probably want someone localish to do it, ie Liverpool, Manchester or Preston.

Could any one suggest costs, performance gains, location of company locally that could remap my car without clutch problems.

Cheers[/quote']

Its pretty simple mate, either uprate the clutch, or when remapping simply keep within sensible boundries of your torque increase and your clutch should last just fine. Go for the max output and you just need to read various posts on what will happen, clutch life expectancy=low.

Me personally, if i had the cash, i would do what devonutopia done and replace the clutch, then go the full monty in terms of torque,

and on the otherhand if i was short of cash which i am, then i would go for a gentle remap, enough of an increase to know its there, but not ott. That way my clutch aint gona suffer, i can keep the brakes as standard(another saving) and i get that little extra punch.

Paul

I'm slowly building up the whole package before I do the remap - so I can get it all done at the same time more than anything - for safety the brake upgrade, and for heat soak prevention the FMIC, as even during the summer with standard I did suffer a tad from heatsoak. It does depend on how you (want to) drive though

I won't be going for a maximum performance remap either, as I've already gained 3 points due to speeding - and unfortunately a private road to work has not been built :P so it's more for getting a little more boost. Trying to keep the car fairly 'family friendly' as SWMBO wouldnt like it otherwise

If I have a lot more cash again I will definitely consider a clutch upgrade, hybrid upgrade & more tuned-up remap, but that's probably at least another 20k miles away

This is all one reason I got the JBS clutch

How much did it set you back Jason?

Steve

Never had mine on a rolling road. Would liek to know what it gives out at stock.

Never had mine on a rolling road but dms (from awesome) claim 172bhp/278lbft. Now on 31K had it since 17K. Never had any clutch problems.