Hi all, not posted here very often but am a frequent visitor to the forums. Have a 55 plate Fabia vRS Ive owned since new. Had Star Performance remap at 5000miles (187bhp and 290 lb ft). Increasingly had a bit of a high pitched whine noise over the last wee while. Now at 19k miles, Car cut out on Friday on the road normal driving and had to be recovered by the AA.

Anyway, long story short I popped the car into Skoda who took 2 days to decide they wouldn't touch it under warranty given the remap. (Fair enough -although it was the dealer who sold me the car who recommended it!)

Anyway, they quoted circa 1500 for a new turbo fitted, laughed and said no thanks. Noted on here new boxed garrett unit from Derv Doctor for 600 notes, so think Im gonna go down this route and get local garage with reasonable labour costs to fit!

Anyway, point of this thread, more as a warning regarding warranty and remaps to anyone reading! And also wondeing if Anyone any other suggestions or ideas about new turbo/recon ones I could get asap?

Cheers.

Fraser

Why not revert car back to standard then get it fixed under warranty, or have you already shot yourself in the foot?

Just out of interest did you tell them it was remapped, or did they discover it?

Switchable Map, so I switched it back to Standard before it went in.

BUT

The guy quoted me all sorts of technical gubbins about the machine that they had used to check the ECU etc and said it was quite clear that it had been running higher boost pressures etc. :(

should call his bluff and play dumb, all you know is its got 4 wheels, a steering wheel and runs on diesel,

So I guess a Switchable Map is not stealth then. It can still easily be detected. Hmmmm...I never knew that.

So I guess a Switchable Map is not stealth then. It can still easily be detected. Hmmmm...I never knew that.

Yes, very easy to spot as are non switchable ones if you know what to look at.

Personally I don't think you should get it done under warranty and it's good to see you agree on this point. I'd be a bit miffed if the dealer claimed otherwise and recommended star.

Does the remap not give a warranty for bits that pop that manufacturers won't cover as per the superchips and Wolf ones?

If you're going after market then either get the stronger garret or if you intend to go further a hybrid as now is as good a time as you will get.

FWIW also check and replace as required the intercooler and associated pipe work, check the exhaust and 100% replace the turbo oil lines.

Minor Update.

Picked car up this morning, runs ok below 2k revs (enough to get home!)

Ordered Brand New Boxed KKK turbo (standard) from County Reconditioning Services (Reconditioned Turbochargers New Turbochargers - Remanufactured Turbo - Reconditioned Turbochargers) for £391+VAT. (The same turbo Skoda quited 1500 for!)

Next day delivery and very helpful too.

Posting Largely for reference if anyone has the same problem in the future. Needless to say I wont be running on the remapped setting again!

Fraser.

should have gone garrett and not KKK then you can still run your remapp,

garrett is a straight swap for your KKK and a 2nd hand one would be cheap cheap,