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Andiroo said:
My personal view for what it's worth /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Leccy tuning ( Electric for you none Northerners /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif) or basic "chip" tuning is fundamentally flawed for several reasons without even going into "eeee I haven't told my insurance company - will I get stabbed on a dark night?"
BTW this applies to all Leccy tuners - not just the guys in this episode but applies to switchable and non-switchable, in your ECU's face or up it **** - no change.
Also - forgive me for saying so (before I blow off) what type of Audi we talking about? - seems a bit vague, and if we are all to learn from it, needs to be specified as it is specific to A/3/4/RS models /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif er missus.
From my experience - S3/S4/RS4 it's quite simple. You take a "chance" on a Leccy Tuner, bearing in mind they don't support their claims with a Rolling Road plot of YOUR car at the time, but produce, from what I have heard/partly experienced, a max boost readout, be it 1bar to 1.8bar /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif, to hopefully take your money and make you go away /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif If more safe power was available just the Leccy way, wouldn't have Audi given you that?
Maybe the car feels faster, but is it? - I have personally seen not one RR plot for one of these conversions, and hey, I know what I'm talking about /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Please could someone put this little ******* to bed once and for all and tell me my girlfriend's S3 will benefit, or detonate /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif she wants one /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif again (*******)
BTW does this resemble overclocking a PC to anyone?
Once this is established, then we can talk about the stuff that keeps you're engine going at these boost figures ie. freeflow exhausts, sport cats, downpipes, hybrid K03,04/16's, and rolling road engine maps (the real figures that show what's truly going on).
Please forgive my frankness (and possibly some of my language /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) but it's about time you guys found out the facts - GOOD or BAD or INDIFFERENT.
So whose got a plot then? (just Leccy tuning for now /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif)
Andiroo
BTW sorry to crash in like this but this subject really does light all my candles at both ends - if you know what I mean /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
BTW BTW I curently pay an extra £160 per year for an extra 95bhp on an RS4 - doesn't make sense not to tell them /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angel.gif
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Not quite sure what you''re getting at but......XXX1.8T had his A3T 'chipped'so to speak by Oettinger, which here in Holland and Germany is supplied by Audi dealers, he then took it on the rolling road with marked improvements over the claims, see the link;
http://www.audi-sport.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=a3s3&Number=6528&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
RichA3Turbo, also had a similar story to tell now he has his chipped with AmD (I think).
For the A3T the gains are massive torque and power, so how this can be flawed I'm confused? And it's so flawed that the Audi dealers across here allow you to order a brand new car with Oettinger chip?? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
JPR, you got any comments on Leccy tuning being flawed?