Well after some good comments from people I went ahead and had my Octavia TDI 130 remapped by Shires tuning based in Hinkley. . Exellent results and service by

Jamie, I strongly recomend them and all for

I would just like to add to this post that i had my fabia vrs mapped by Jamie at shires last thurs. After doing alot of research here on the forums I had a chat with jamie and was relieved that a maturer sounding chap answered the phone rather than some youngster. Had a chat and he's been in the game for 6 yrs, his software is updated weekly from a guy in germany who does the mapping for the audi le man team. He provides his services to a company in the london area who specialise in american cars and is in the process of getting together with a company that provide trick parts for 4x4's. I asked about my mods (filter and exhaust) and he says he always contacts the guy in germany, so to give the best map.

He is not pushing the engine that far and the increase in boost is only 0.3 bar, and it is regularly mentioned in here that the turbos are fine upto 1.55 and the 0.3 increase only takes you to 1.1bar, so i was happy there.

He works from home and says he has only had 2 engine failures, the first a pug hdi which the guy put unleaded in so not his fault and the second was a cat d write off pd150 golf that some idiot put a pd130 engine into on the 150 ecu etc, and when he wrote the 150 map on it lasted 3 mins. again not his fault.

He uses snap on diagnostics etc and assures me the mapping kit was in excess of 7k.

I am happy with the extra power, im not sure that he has the ability to put the power where he likes in the rev range like jabbasport, but to be fair i was at work when he did it some didnt get much chance to quiz him about it. He did say if i wanted more power even in a few wks, just to give him a call so cant say fairer than that.

Anyway hope this helps and if anything does go a miss, you guys will be the first to know.

My main aim of adding to this thread is for reference, after all thats what we all use the forums for.

Hope this helps,

Simon

I can now back up all the above. Very nice bloke indeed and the generic remap he put on my car is superb. Top bloke does loads of cars and vans every day and at very good price and worth considering if you wana get a remap.

A sub £200 remap sounds great.

If more people start to spread the word he could quickly clean up in the generic map market.

I assume he hasnt got a rolling road as you've given no figures, but these days most generic maps are pretty much the same.

think its about 165ish bhp. does me and the torque is just where i want it.

He has rolling road facilities availiable to customers in the north london area. It is provided as a favour to him from the american car company i mentioned that he does work for.

More details on the rolling road facilities in North London please.....

you will have to speak to jamie at shires bout that one. can get him on, 07967377453 or 01455637964