...The initial dyno run before the map gave me a figure of 264.7hp@3732rpm with 429.4lb.ft @ 2358rpm. That figure is way above stock and surprised me. I was expecting it to be at 245 or below to be fair. After the map i have 316.6hp@3788rpm with 508.3lb.ft @ 2365.
A 10% over-inflation is a lot lower than AMD used to fudge their numbers by... you're probably genuinely running ~280-285bhp at the flywheeel and probably 220bhp at the wheels... IF that chart was actually even your car - they probably just regurgitated a BiTDI map that they have on file because people with TDI's want to be told they have the same power as a BiTDI.
I’m looking to get my a7 tdi 272 remapped from amd too
Sorry about the rant, but I feel duty-bound to warn people about the REALLY bad experience with AMD: admittedly it was >10yrs ago now (from the old Bicester site), but I haven't gone near AMD since then and I wouldn't trust their dyno's as far as I could throw them.
They did a LOT of work on one of my older cars... the mechanical work was good, but their dyno and diagnostics work was truly awful: they repeatedly gave me fairly implausible numbers that I disproved at various other dyno's (different makes and all the others were within a few percent of each other, while the AMD torque numbers in particular were consistently over-inflated).
Not that anybody tuning a car should pay too much attention to the flywheel power ratings unless you're worried about drivetrain damage, but their flywheel numbers were massaged even further due to massively exaggerated transmission losses (I think they were fudging the tyre specs, etc). Across three different sessions in very similar conditions, I think they averaged about 20% higher than other tuning company's Dyno's... and the other people were getting power numbers exactly in line with expectations on those dyno days.
Because of the misleading power numbers and repeated bad RR runs (if they happened at all!), AMD missed a broken FPR that meant my car was running dangerously lean when the Shrick high lift cam was installed and the fuelling couldn't keep up. No "bad detonation", but still not great that they let it happen.
I raised all of the above with them at the time and despite me having spent >£10k with them in an 18 month period, they really didn't seem to care at all - the most they would offer was that I could do the 4 hour round trip again to have it dyno'd "again" on a Saturday morning... I was intrigued to see what the RR would say or what they would say in person, so I accepted and booked a date.
The complete ambivalence continued: despite arriving before opening and being kept until the last few minutes before closing they gave me a print-out with a stock car's power run with the torque curve shifted up through the entire rev-range (very obvious from a stock torque curve vs a high lift cam profile). You could easily have disproven within 2mins of driving it as the torque drop-off was ~1000rpm higher in my car compared to stock, not to mention that they claimed it was making more low-rev torque than a stock car - but mine had high lift cams (and this is for an NA car!)...
Despite me flagging that as an issue at the time, the guy just shrugged and said that I had a dyno run chart showing more power, what more did I want? I explained that this was the second attempt at getting AMD to do a proper dyno run after after the first one hadn't been done properly and they had missed some essential diagnostics because of it.... he conceded that they were pretty busy that day, so mine might have got mixed up, but if I "still thought it wasn't right", then I'd have to book it in for another day if I wanted to get it dyno'd again.... basically they'd booked me in on a day when they were too busy to bother and couldn't be fussed to do anything to make it right. I'd only taken the car in for that ONE thing! The most he would offer was that they could keep the car on site and dyno it "sometime next week".
It clearly wasn't worth a 6 hour round train-trip to leave the car.... or another 4 hours of driving and 4 hours of waiting around to be messed about like that for a third time.
They haven't got another penny of my money and all I can do is warn people not to waste their time or money with them... even if the dyno has been changed multiple times, it was the culture of fudging results and shocking attitude when they were caught doing it that I couldn't believe and makes me think that they can't be trusted ever again.
I've heard several people say the dyno numbers they get elsewhere "seem lower than straight after they had the remap with AMD"... but nobody seems to have been messed around as badly as I was - or at least they haven't picked up on how much AMD were fudging results.
AMD will just give you any old printout if they think it'll make you happy and put something on your forum signature saying "I got ###bhp with my AMD remap"... and most people will fall for it because they want to believe the over-inflated numbers and it's all good for their PR if people are repeating their claims... I've seen a fair few people turn up at dyno days claiming they're going some pretty ambitious numbers based on a previous AMD dyno only to fall flat on their faces... and the fallback that AMD will always have is that the failure they missed must have happened straight after the last dyno pull they did.
Honestly: only go to AMD if you want to massage your ego with artificial power numbers or if you want a big number for your forum signature... go somewhere else if you want your car properly mapped and tested. At very least get it properly dyno'd somewhere else after AMD have messed around with it in case they've missed anything (or never bothered doing the dyno on your car).
