8 hours ago, stever750 said:

It's not hard to find outside normal parameter data! It's not like you'd do a manual scan of a printout, it's pretty straightforward to analyse, just takes a bit of time to process it. Been doing similar exercises at work looking at engine manufacturing data with one if the UK engine plants. 

Maybe it's just those of us who work in the analysis of data using software just get it. Stuff I work with isn't engines but similar ideas of finding stuff that sticks out and then drilling down into it and attempting to find or predict the root cause.

At the end of the day each person makes their choice what they feel comfortable changing on their car.

17 minutes ago, Scotty72 said:

Maybe it's just those of us who work in the analysis of data using software just get it. Stuff I work with isn't engines but similar ideas of finding stuff that sticks out and then drilling down into it and attempting to find or predict the root cause.

At the end of the day each person makes their choice what they feel comfortable changing on their car.

Agree over 17,200 miles on my car now and still 1,300 miles until it's first service yet reliability has been 100% bulletproof. Despite all the advice from people who have never altered anything on their car they seem to know all the problems I am likely to encounter. Fortunately I am not a pessimistic person and have enjoyed the differences between a standard car and a now heavily modified one with zero regrets. Each to their own IMHO.

Edited 2 December, 20187 yr by shyVRS245
SPELLING MISTAKE

1 minute ago, shyVRS245 said:

Agree over 17,200 miles on my car now and still 1,300 miles until it's first service yet reliability has been 100% bulletproof. Despite all the advice from people who have never altered anything on their car they seem to know all the problems I am likely to encounter. Fortunately I am not a pessimstic person and have enjoyed the differences between a standard car and a now heavily modified one with zero regrets. Each to their own IMHO.

My own car warranty expired (as I did with my old Leon Cupra) I'd be straight round for a ECU/TCU remap tomorrow But it's not my car I'm only paying to borrow it for a couple of years.

So regarding ECU/TCU remaps do a large majority of people not bother to inform their insurance still?. Im guessing thats one good thing about these DTUK TCU boxes you can remove it and be not obvious trace.....but then that depends on your insurance company and the person doing the claim report as to weather they would go the whole hog and look at every small detail in which case the DTUK TCU boxes would do you no favours as scrutinising over details would show evidence of tampering and thus void your warranty  

Edited 2 December, 20187 yr by BlockABoots

38 minutes ago, BlockABoots said:

So regarding ECU/TCU remaps do a large majority of people not bother to inform their insurance still?. Im guessing thats one good thing about these DTUK TCU boxes you can remove it and be not obvious trace.....but then that depends on your insurance company and the person doing the claim report as to weather they would go the whole hog and look at every small detail in which case the DTUK TCU boxes would do you no favours as scrutinising over details would show evidence of tampering and thus void your warranty  

I think you'll find the majority of brisky members with modified cars inform their insurers. Not doing so would just be plain daft and irresponsible. 

Justifying your own morals is an extremely personal exercise.

 

I have no problems sleeping at night though

If I mod any vehicles be it my cars or motorbikes everything is declared to the insurance company, most stuff I've found makes no difference to premiums in that you'd only get standard parts back after a claim, they are really only interested in performance enhancing stuff - this is how I sleep easy at night.  I've found in the past specialist modified car insurance policy was cheaper than mainstream stuff with mods declared.

Again each to their own.

So, has anyone had one of these and been happy with it? I am considering one or a TCU map and trying to figure out which one if any would do what I am expecting.

The main issue I am trying to sort is the indecisive nature of 'D' and how it takes a while to resolve it's gear selection entering a roundabout/junction.  It always seems to be one gear up on where it should be. Then you give it some more gas and it over revs after dropping a gear. 

I see that a TCU will offer a benefit in 2 ways to support my issue.

1) Altering and speeding up the shift points to make it select the right gears.

2) Raising the torque limit to make it more drivable in the gear it has chosen to help match my map as I believe my peak torque is higher than the preset value for the dq250.

 

Both of these would make the car much nicer to drive but the question is am I understanding the modifications correctly and would the changes be enough to warrant the cost?

4 hours ago, MarkyG82 said:

So, has anyone had one of these and been happy with it? I am considering one or a TCU map and trying to figure out which one if any would do what I am expecting.

I'm not sure the DTUK TCU flash will do all of what you want whilst, it maybe being doing something with change points in different modes its probably a little to subtle for me to notice. I also have a very sensitive throttle too hence, it's not so easy for me to recognize all of its features.

4 hours ago, MarkyG82 said:

So, has anyone had one of these and been happy with it? I am considering one or a TCU map and trying to figure out which one if any would do what I am expecting.

The main issue I am trying to sort is the indecisive nature of 'D' and how it takes a while to resolve it's gear selection entering a roundabout/junction.  It always seems to be one gear up on where it should be. Then you give it some more gas and it over revs after dropping a gear. 

I see that a TCU will offer a benefit in 2 ways to support my issue.

1) Altering and speeding up the shift points to make it select the right gears.

2) Raising the torque limit to make it more drivable in the gear it has chosen to help match my map as I believe my peak torque is higher than the preset value for the dq250.

 

Both of these would make the car much nicer to drive but the question is am I understanding the modifications correctly and would the changes be enough to warrant the cost?

Check out TVS engineering tcu tunes If your wishing to change your shift points I went with there drivability tune because I was sick of the car being 5th at 31mph and 6th at 40 makes it a much nicer drive in my opinion, cost £430