Tuning Box vs Remap

GTE

Hey hey,

I was aimlessly browsing the web untill I stumbled upon this little ditty.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TDI-Tuning-Chip-VP-Skoda-Fabia-Octavia-30BHP-SDI_W0QQitemZ290342214190QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item4399be9a2e

I looked these up on TDICLUB and they have something in the FAQ about them.

http://tdiclub.com/TDIFAQ/TDiFAQ-6.html#e2

How would you rate these vs a remap?
I like the idea of it being very easily reversible. I cant confirm it with the ebay thing linked but they seem to work on the principle that once it detects that you floor it it does something magical and ups the power.

I have a 90bhp VE TDI in a Golf estate. I wouldnt mind 30 hp extra Curious more so, I dont intend on doing anything like this for a good while, if at all.


Im curious about the opinions on these boxes, I thought they would be gimmicks but I haven't actually read anything major against them.


Thanks
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tossy

That tuning box is nothing but a resistor costing a few euros in a box that tricks the car into thinking the diesel is colder than it is so the car inject more,you get an initial surge but nothing much after that,a real tuning box should cost in the region of 400 euro,but even at that i would prefer to pay similar money for a remap - its the only through way of altering performance parameters.

Owen

I've got a tuning box. It's only there because my remap guy I trust is waiting on new equipment to do my car. It's okay, but all it does is forcefeed the engine with more diesel. It's a bit weird up around 100mph, and can hunt when idling on a cold morning. Fuel consumption is up too.

A remap will improve consumption, and be suited to the engine too.

GTE

Thanks for that.

It sounds a lot like that evry mod I read about on TDI club. Basically a resistor thats wired into a switch in the car. Flick it and you get more boom. Apparently.

Ill steer clear so and think about a remap.

This Petes tuning box seems to be a rather cool piece of kit though. No link handy but a review was quite positive from the same engine I run but in an Octavia.

Thanks all

btw. PaintDoc, what kinda price would I be looking at for a remap? Apparently it will get my engine up to 120 hp or so. I wouldnt mind a little more go go if its upper in the rev range or lower but in a higher gear. Overtaking can be slow, not dangerously so but I would like to have more urgency.

tossy

Check out www.chippedire.com,Joe is the only guy in the country i'd let remap my car he knows TDI's inside out,i had my old golf remapped by him plus practically every TDI/2.0TFSI and 1.8T on vagdrivers.net has been done by him.

GTE

I checked that out. He seems to do some good stuff TDI wise.

There is a thread in his forum in vagdrivers I think and there is someone with the 90hp VE TDI like mine and he did an injector and remap job and he got it up to 138hp.

Id love that much but Id be afraid of the insurance, clutch, general handling.
On the insurance front a friend got his BWM 320D mapped up to near 200 hp and the insurance stayed the same on renewal.

Im rather pleased with the idea of remapping my wagon to around the 120 mark if it gives me more urgency at higher speeds for overtaking, but getting 138hp would be something Im only toying with right now.