Bluefin; Too good to be true?

[benjibarnicals]

Hey all,

Been having a look at remaps for my 2006 TDI, i've heard of bluefin before as an alternative and spotted this on eBay, is this too good to be true?

Superchips Bluefin Audi / VW / Skoda / Seat | eBay

Seems very cheap for the handset!

 

[S3 AEX]

No about rite, it'll cost u a few hundred me thinks to have it reprogrammed tho.

 

[benjibarnicals]

Yea I've emailed them for costs. Will keep you posted.

 

[Lukeyb]

I had a bluefin on my 170 TDI 57 plate and it made the car drive awful around town, it did make a noticeable difference to the power, you could really feel it, but the brunt of my driving was urban and I couldn't stand it. It wasn't practical for me to go all the way from York to London for them to have a look and a tweak so just got my money back under their guarantee.

 

[benjibarnicals]

I had a bluefin on my 170 TDI 57 plate and it made the car drive awful around town, it did make a noticeable difference to the power, you could really feel it, but the brunt of my driving was urban and I couldn't stand it. It wasn't practical for me to go all the way from York to London for them to have a look and a tweak so just got my money back under their guarantee.

I wonder if the map they put on wasn't quite right? Would other remapping companies etc have a "better" map or are these maps pretty much the same from company to company.

 

[Lukeyb]

To be fair they were good about it and did offer for me to go down to HQ and get it looked at like I say I couldn't just pop down it was hundreds of miles, they did say they had looked at the map and it looked "very successful". I was glad of their money back promise.

 

[Jet2004uk]

I have a blufin on my 2.0 TFSI , I have had no issues and the power difference is very noticeable

 

[benjibarnicals]

Just spoke to them [Superchips], well the Bristol dealer. And they reckon if the hardware of the handset is upto date getting it reprogrammed would be around the £225/£250 mark. Plus the cost of the handset as well. They've got a deal on apparently coming up next week where the units will be down to £360 so its debatable whether the £60 ish less than buying brand new is debatable.