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robern2:
What happened with the PDF map ?

rdfcpete:
Little 'Good experience' marker from me here re. 170 DPF Revo stage 1 map with AKS Tuning (Alex/vRSAlex)  :happy2:

Getting on well with it, complete with SPS switch.

Janner_Sy:

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--- Quote from: Janner_Sy on June 15, 2013, 08:58:06 pm ---It makes sense.  Better to have a depth of knowledge than a breadth of knowledge.

Having had Superchips, shark, APR and jabba maps on my past couple cars I know I wouldnt use Superchips or Shark ever again.  Jabba are too far away from me so id discount them, id consider an APR, but in all honesty, id like to see what custom stuff Nick @ R-TECH could do for me.

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what happened with shark?

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On the 2.0TFSI the stage 2 map was fantastic.  I was the first to have the stage 2+ from them and it was fraught with issues, many many map revisions applied, and there were fueling issues throughout, they tried everything they could to help, could fault them on customer service, purely the mapping.  Thought I would give them a second chance with my Fabia vRS.  They did the R&D on mine for their software.  It was absolutely rapid but suffered heatsoak substantially, however Turns out they were attempting to run 3.2 bar of boost when the maximum possible boost of the stock turbo was 2.6 bar.  

I used to recommend them to people, however after a large percentage of them ended up with issues, both 2.0TFSI and 1.4TSI, not only would i no longer use them , i would also not recommend them either.

PDT:

--- Quote from: Marshall on July 13, 2013, 06:45:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: robern2 on July 13, 2013, 05:58:08 pm ---What happened with the PDF map ?

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I returned to them as I wasn't happy with the harsh engine noise compared to several other cr170's
After having another map flashed my car is very underpowered and sounds like it has a boost leak!
After flashing several other maps on it wasn't any better.
I was so fed up I asked for a refund and the car returned to standard but that was a no no!
I eventually limped home some 90 miles and have spent a few days pressure testing the whole system.
I replaced the intercooler o-ring seals which made no difference so pressure tested the intercooler and all the pipework from turbo to throttle body up to 28 psi with no leaks.
I done some research and checked turbo actuator and the vacuum side substituting air flow meter etc but car still the same.
I then emailed Sedox expressing my disappointment on wedensday and haven't heard anything since.
Vw want £72 to flash the car to standard which I need to pay and lose my original map cost.
I was going on holiday yesterday so had to bring her 54 plate leon as my car loaded up with 4 people would've been pointless.
Carbon chip tuning on another forum have offered me one of their maps for free due to this which I think speaks volumes for that company.
I wish I'd left it standard or went with Revo which I wanted originally.

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To make a few things clear about what Kev has said, I understand his frustrations and we have tried everything possible to resolve the issue he has. His car was tuned on 27th of March 2013 and this is what he had to say about it:

"Just back from Sedox and the car is totally transformed.
I'll post the graphs up later but as I thought the car only made 166bhp standard and was down on torque slightly.
Finished figures were 210bhp and torque at 300ftlbs
Car goes much much better and seems to be better on fuel!
On the way home sitting on cruise at 85mph the trip was trading 50.2mpg
The total average has been sitting on 44.6mpg but after returning it has risen to 47.2mpg.
So far so good and I'm extremely pleased"


Then exactly 3 months later his engine develops a noise, he sent videos and datalogs which we spent a long time going through and comparing to other logs from stock and tuned cars. We were not able to find any issues, so pulled up his maps and compared them with lots of other 170CR tuned maps. Nothing was out of the ordinary. We got Kevs car in and spent most of the day diagnosing and testing various things as well as test driving and datalogging, although we could not hear the noise, Kev was certain there was a noise there. The car did sound like it may have a boost leak, we checked, removed and cleaned, re-installed boost hoses and the problem persisted. We gave Kev the choice of flashing the tuned file back to his car, which he wanted and he left. As he doesn't live locally there was not a huge amount more we could do for him. He did ask for a refund (we do have a 30 day money back guarantee) but after 3 months of being delighted with his car and nothing but praise for our service and product it is clear that it is a hardware fault that is causing his issue, if it was a software fault it would have been there from day 1.

Since that day we have had no contact from Kev. We carried out all the investigation work completely free of charge, I dont know what more we could have done.

GrayMK5GTI:
Have you had the car flashed back to stock?

Does it still make the noise?

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