Mechanical sympathy is key IMO. If you lack it, you’ll break a clutch etc remap or not. 

 

 

The Skud,

there was no skin off the Dealerships nose or money out the Dealership or Motor Groups pocket with the out of Warranty repair done under Warranty.

They were paid by the Warranty Provider / Underwriter,  so Skoda / VW Group.

 

Doubtful that a Warranty Manager at Skoda UK was made aware of your remap by any employee at the Dealership, 

but then that was not relevant to your A/C claim, expensive as the parts was when you were paying the labour.

 

If they were being asked to be paying out £4,000 plus for an engine, or £3,000 on an gearbox that might be a totally different matter, 

as many know.

Well where the Technicians at Dealerships are not going to stay shtum.

Edited 5 March, 20188 yr by AwaoffSki

On 3/5/2018 at 09:24, penguin17 said:

Mechanical sympathy is key IMO. If you lack it, you’ll break a clutch etc remap or not. 

 

 

 

Just read this thread and what amazes me is that all those looking at the remaps don't even consider that the car isn't even run in.

 

e.g. 7000km and considering remap - a diesel needs at least 10k to be run in.

 

They do loosen up considerably over the first 10k miles so why consider doing anything to it before then.  Mine is just under a year old and has done almost 20,000 miles.  It is fast enough for me and have no problem with single carriageway overtakes.

 

On the noticeability VAG will know that a mod has been done, there will be logs in the code that only VAG will know about, and some even they don't know about.

18 minutes ago, IJWS15 said:

 

On the noticeability VAG will know that a mod has been done, there will be logs in the code that only VAG will know about, and some even they don't know about.

That's a TD1 flag, which can be detected *if* the car is scanned.  

 

 

 

I wonder did anyone yet do remap?  very interested hearing about this engine

I'm interested yet sceptical. I'm not bothered about more power necessarily as there's plenty but if it makes it more efficient and better economy then I'd consider it. But I'm looking for real people that have had it done and their experience. I'm not interested if it's just a bigger squirt of diesel for more power and soot.

I’m also interested in this although I’ll probably wait until the manufacturers warranty is up. Other than that my main concern is how it will affect the DPF. I know you can map DPF and EGR out but I don’t particularly want to go down that road.

10 hours ago, Kamikazekid said:

I’m also interested in this although I’ll probably wait until the manufacturers warranty is up. Other than that my main concern is how it will affect the DPF. I know you can map DPF and EGR out but I don’t particularly want to go down that road.

A remap from a reputable tuner will have been developed to work in harmony with all stock components and operate within their respective tolerances.   Air:fuel ratios should all be fine and not cause any issues with the DPF or similar.   Using the 'premium' diesels will also help as they will burn more cleanly and have some cleaning additives too.   I've spoken to several tuners who all state that both premium petrol and diesel have their benefits in standard cars, and they've all done enough testing to prove it definitely improves things further, with a remap. 

 

I've ran a VAG 184PS TDI for 50K miles with a REVO stage one remap and never experienced a single issue, not even a sensor fault, slipping clutch or a problematic codes/faults when doing a diagnostic scan.   If you're driving habits/routes aren't causing issues so far with your DPF then the presence of a remap shouldn't cause any problems.  If you're doing short routes, engine not getting up to temp and you're having a lot of active regens, etc etc then a remap will likely just compound those issues and accelerate your DPF eventually needing some expensive TLC.   

 

Economy was also improved by  3-5%, based on tank-to-tank calculations, over several years both pre/post remap.  Performance was 'interesting', with 500Nm on tap the mid-range shove was an absolute hoot and felt effortless. 

 

Glad you had a good experience. I have heard some say that the revo maps are somewhat aggressive compared to others, not to say that’s necessarily a bad thing. It’s a bit of a mine field as all these tuning companies seem to promise the same thing so it’s hard to know who to go with. 

 

I have bluefin on my old ST TDCI mondeo and have done 80k with it without issue. Well... it’s had a dual mass and 2 egrs in that time but on a car with 138k it’s hard to say if that’s normal wear and tear or in any way related to the map. I’m tempted to use bluefin again but a couple of mates have used it on other cars (golf 1.4GT & Audi S3) and had a few issues...again though they weren’t 100% sure if it was due to the map. 

I currently have a 190 4x4 and when it comes back from the dealers for a Haldex controller fault it will be getting a custom map from either shark/racingline or big fish tuning. Both are custom and not generic and expect around 500nm and 230bhp. 

Had an octavia mk3 184 before this onewith a map and it did 110k miles with absolutely no issues with 225bhp and 480nm not a clutch slip or anything and it was bloody quick. 

Also a dsg map may also happen whilst I’m there p