Hi folks..... im back to a 2018 Skoda Superb Sportline from  having to great Kia's and i have to say the Sportline is some machine.

What is the REST button on the climate control for ?? i press it and nothing happens lol

Have any of you put a performance chip from " Italianspeed.eu " in your car ? if so are they safe to use etc or are they a waste of money at 80 Euro.

Thanks Ray Simpson, Waterford, Ireland.

REST is for residual heat - it wont do anything until the car is off.  If you activate the button, it causes residual heat from the engine/cooling system to be circulated and so help to keep the car warm for 30 mins or so (i.e. keeps it warm while you nip into the shops).

 

If your car is a 150hp and a 2018, you probably want to be in the Superb Mk III forum (this is the Mk II forum for 2008-15 cars). it's here: Skoda Superb Mk III                                                      

80 EUR is too cheap.

On 4/17/2018 at 07:24, barts2 said:

Hi folks..... im back to a 2018 Skoda Superb Sportline

That's an S3. So you're posting in the wrong subforum.

On 4/17/2018 at 06:24, barts2 said:

Hi folks..... im back to a 2018 Skoda Superb Sportline from  having to great Kia's and i have to say the Sportline is some machine.

What is the REST button on the climate control for ?? i press it and nothing happens lol

Have any of you put a performance chip from " Italianspeed.eu " in your car ? if so are they safe to use etc or are they a waste of money at 80 Euro.

Thanks Ray Simpson, Waterford, Ireland.

If it's a plugin box avoid it. Those things work by messing with sensor data to trick the engine ECU into overfuelling and overboosting.

 

If you want more power, get a remap from a reputable tuner. In Ireland, Joe Power at TDR Performance is very good.

On 19.4.2018 at 20:05, chimaera said:

If it's a plugin box avoid it. Those things work by messing with sensor data to trick the engine ECU into overfuelling and overboosting.

 

To be precise, remap does exactly the same thing (overfuelling + overboosting).

Edited 21 April, 20188 yr by linni

15 hours ago, linni said:

 

To be precise, remap does exactly the same thing (overfuelling + overboosting).

No, it's very different.

 

With a plugin box, the ECU's control over the engine is diminished since a bunch of the information it needs to operate is hidden from it by the box. Overboost and overfuelling are fault conditions from the ECU's perspective: the engine is getting more boost or fuel than the ECU specifies.

 

In a modern engine, the basic map relates pedal position to air demand and fuel requirementa s expected but it gets a lot more complicated than that. There are additional maps for exhast gas temperature management, EGR control, DPF monitoring and regeneration, torque limitation in low gears, and so on.

 

A plugin box at best influences the operation of the basic map, without any ability to interact with or react to the other maps, so it is possible for a tuning box to put the engine into an undesirable operating state; to put it another way, the tuning box is depending on the unmodified additional maps to stop it breaking the engine.

 

A competent tuner doing a remap of the ECU can look at all of the maps on the ECU and adjust each of them to ensure the remapped engine remains properly under ECU control throughout the now modified base map. It's a far superior solution from a technical standpoint, and from a longterm engine reliabiity perspective.