All Things Mk5 > Performance Modifications
PDT/Sedox performance Sunderland - Revo Remap
JStav:
--- Quote from: Bernhard30 on September 19, 2012, 10:11:45 pm ---As said before mine only went to Dave for just a map...
21 months later I'm still on the slippery slope, so beware the visit to PDT for just a remap.
Mine's been there a few times for more modding..
Glad you had fun and no doubt enjoyed the drive home however far it was.
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I already have the feeling I'm going to see a lot more of the place! Will be going to stage 2+ I think :jumping: It was about 25-30 miles back to Teesside but it felt like I got home quicker anyway! Amazingly with better fuel economy too! The car feels like a motorway/A-road destroyer. Putting your foot down even in 6th gear and the car just seems to take off effortlessly.
--- Quote from: heavyd on September 19, 2012, 10:26:39 pm ---I did say you were better off making the trip to PDT :wink:
If you had gone the other Revo dealer and didnt get it dynod, you probably would never have known about the diverter valve/MAF/boost leak
Think it might have been my car on the lifter when you turned up the other day
Hopefully PDT fixed my oil leak on tuesday aswell :happy2:
Nice result all the same :drinking:
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You did indeed and it was brilliant advice so thanks for that! This is exactly what I was talking about to Dave and another guy there (not sure of his name?). I would have gone away none the wiser as I'm certainly no mechanic and plus I've never driven another GTI so had nothing to compare against!
Was yours the candy white? I said to Dave it was very very nice but unfortunately a good one appears to be like rocking horse do-do to find (I did originally want one until mine came up at a good price!)
Already thinking of the next mods...definitely a slippery slope :evilgrin:
Andy:
Hope your oil leak is fixed Dom
pazzywazzy:
For all you who are thinking of getting a remap on your pride & joy, BEWARE. Did a lot of research on this remapping lark & it is a mind field anybody can set up & call themselves any expert. Anyway I decided to go with SEDOX performance in sunderland (or formally know as Vsport and PDtuning) wonderful glossy web site good reviews, plenty of bragging of what they can do, bla bla bla, So decide to go with them, yes they where 200 miles away but they’d do a good job wouldn’t they?? Had a golf 170 tdi & audi A6 2.5 tdi to take, golf was a no runner cos the DPF was blocked & had shut down, Trailered the golf down behind the Audi. Would get Audi remapped & management light was on cos I removed the egr valve. Got the work all done in a day DPF removed & a remap on golf, it was running hura hura, The audi was remapped & light out, but needed MAF ( which they done for me) & N75 valve which I did when got home, Anyway it all seemed fine, paid £1074 and headed home, on the way home management light comes on ( the audi that is as golfie’s having a ride home ) and stays on. The golf’s DPF light comes on a few days later also quite a aggressive power band with lot’s of (not a bit) black smoke under acceleration. Some emails later David from sedox suggested I take them to my local garage for diagnostics (DM performance cars pulford) could not find anything wrong & said the light should not come on as it has been mapped out. Back to David & this was his reply—
If there is a light on, there will be a fault code. The light is never 'mapped out', infact anyone that suggests that any diagnostic processes should be mapped out simply doesn't understand the process. Did they check the live data and reset all of the ECU adaptions? We're they using genuine VCDS or VAS diagnostic equipment, or a generic fault code tool?
At this stage I thought ‘this guy is full of carbon’ & I am not getting anywhere, If I took the cars back there all that way to get sorted, is he going to do another sh*t job? Back to square one. So back to dm performance, he says have you tried simon at ecotec at buckey just 6 mile away? No never heard of them, They do DPF removal & remapping he said. F**KING HELL. After coming down from the sealing I paid him a visit told him the story & he like me thought sedox where good, but would look at the golf first to see what was what. Simon phoned me up later saying he could not believe the car has been remapped this way terrible job, also they had wiped the codes so going to have diagnostic checks was a waist of time as there was nothing to read and they will have known this. Simon phoned sedox to try & make sense of his remap, But in the end Simon sourced a standard VW golf file started from scratch, remapped it and sorted all the issues, (no problems with sensors etc) and running much smoother now, no lights coming on, also sorted the audi as well, Many thanks to you Simon as you are down to earth, not full of sh*t & know your stuff. As for David Appleby of sedox you are one of the sharks and will No doubt will have a clever explanation for this, but the net is moving in.
GrayMK5GTI:
I remember the story of the last guy who randomly appeared on this forum, made one post slating a tuner. . . .
Bernhard30:
--- Quote from: pazzywazzy on December 12, 2013, 08:37:56 pm ---For all you who are thinking of getting a remap on your pride & joy, BEWARE. Did a lot of research on this remapping lark & it is a mind field anybody can set up & call themselves any expert. Anyway I decided to go with SEDOX performance in sunderland (or formally know as Vsport and PDtuning) wonderful glossy web site good reviews, plenty of bragging of what they can do, bla bla bla, So decide to go with them, yes they where 200 miles away but they’d do a good job wouldn’t they?? Had a golf 170 tdi & audi A6 2.5 tdi to take, golf was a no runner cos the DPF was blocked & had shut down, Trailered the golf down behind the Audi. Would get Audi remapped & management light was on cos I removed the egr valve. Got the work all done in a day DPF removed & a remap on golf, it was running hura hura, The audi was remapped & light out, but needed MAF ( which they done for me) & N75 valve which I did when got home, Anyway it all seemed fine, paid £1074 and headed home, on the way home management light comes on ( the audi that is as golfie’s having a ride home ) and stays on. The golf’s DPF light comes on a few days later also quite a aggressive power band with lot’s of (not a bit) black smoke under acceleration. Some emails later David from sedox suggested I take them to my local garage for diagnostics (DM performance cars pulford) could not find anything wrong & said the light should not come on as it has been mapped out. Back to David & this was his reply—
If there is a light on, there will be a fault code. The light is never 'mapped out', infact anyone that suggests that any diagnostic processes should be mapped out simply doesn't understand the process. Did they check the live data and reset all of the ECU adaptions? We're they using genuine VCDS or VAS diagnostic equipment, or a generic fault code tool?
At this stage I thought ‘this guy is full of carbon’ & I am not getting anywhere, If I took the cars back there all that way to get sorted, is he going to do another sh*t job? Back to square one. So back to dm performance, he says have you tried simon at ecotec at buckey just 6 mile away? No never heard of them, They do DPF removal & remapping he said. F**KING HELL. After coming down from the sealing I paid him a visit told him the story & he like me thought sedox where good, but would look at the golf first to see what was what. Simon phoned me up later saying he could not believe the car has been remapped this way terrible job, also they had wiped the codes so going to have diagnostic checks was a waist of time as there was nothing to read and they will have known this. Simon phoned sedox to try & make sense of his remap, But in the end Simon sourced a standard VW golf file started from scratch, remapped it and sorted all the issues, (no problems with sensors etc) and running much smoother now, no lights coming on, also sorted the audi as well, Many thanks to you Simon as you are down to earth, not full of sh*t & know your stuff. As for David Appleby of sedox you are one of the sharks and will No doubt will have a clever explanation for this, but the net is moving in.
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This seems a massively one sided argument..after reading it a couple of times I'm still not sure what dash/fault lights were on or not pre/during/post the remap work. It's clearly a rant from a hacked off Audi/VW owner.
To me it looks as though both cars were not exactly in tip top health before a map was installed.
The golf was trailered there !!
I'm sure PDT will comment if the original post requires a comment.
But can only comment that I thought long and hard about where to get my Ed30 mapped and the Revo software installed by Dave has been spot on.
And in terms of PDT/Sedox own remaps my father in law had his Civic tdci done there..no issues at all in well over two years.
Either way if the original poster ever returns to read this..hope you get it sorted.
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