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Had an APR map done at QS Tuning, in Haywards Heath yesterday.
Run up shows the car was off the Audi quoted figures of 184bhp - for a 27k car, not like the VAG group to tell fibs right? However QT Tunings Dyno is brutally accurate, so probably more accurate than most.
So although the APR map shows off their quoted 220bhp, the lift from 172bhp to 213bhp is fairly substantial, of around 41bhp give or take on a given day, considering their map is known to be fairly conservative as opposed to some others, it's a fairly decent result.
What I found interesting after seeing @CanadaA3wales recent map, is that the power drop off is actually at a higher RPM around 4200rpm) than the standard map (at 3800rpm) rather than lower, so it has increased the already short diesels power band rather than reduce it. This is more than noticeable on the road, long long pull and always reserve power, which it lacked a little before.
Overall the car is much more drivable now, get up and go is fairly the same, but the midrange torque actually makes it very capable when you driving quickly in between 2-4th gear.
I paid a little more than was being advertised at the time to use QS Tuning because of their experience hoping this would count for something when they tweaked the APR map. I've never used them before, but their workshop was impressive, and spotless and they have some very highend machinery in there. There is a bit of an 'elitest' feel there though in my opinion.
Sadly, we had already had a bit of a tiff as the owner claimed we never had a phone call before lockdown agreeing on price matching Awesome GTI (at the time - £366 inc dyno runs). I'm not one who likes being called a liar. Anyhow, he convinced me to pay the additional to use them and would price match the Black Friday deal that was on, and they will 'make any adjustments on the map afterwards', 'road test' and 'look after me'. Other than a frosty reception in the morning, they didn't do any of those, and I wasn't in the mood for an argument, It was made metaphorically clear my cheapo job was a bit of an inconvenience . So it's essentially just a direct APR map, so there probably are some tweaks that could have been made to improve it further.
I had it matched to a Black Friday Awesome GTI Price of £385 , plus £40 dyno time (Awesome GTI include the dyno time). The Awesome/APR price is back up to nearly £500 now, so I probably did ok.
If anyone see's anything untoward in the graphs please mention it!
Run up shows the car was off the Audi quoted figures of 184bhp - for a 27k car, not like the VAG group to tell fibs right? However QT Tunings Dyno is brutally accurate, so probably more accurate than most.
So although the APR map shows off their quoted 220bhp, the lift from 172bhp to 213bhp is fairly substantial, of around 41bhp give or take on a given day, considering their map is known to be fairly conservative as opposed to some others, it's a fairly decent result.
What I found interesting after seeing @CanadaA3wales recent map, is that the power drop off is actually at a higher RPM around 4200rpm) than the standard map (at 3800rpm) rather than lower, so it has increased the already short diesels power band rather than reduce it. This is more than noticeable on the road, long long pull and always reserve power, which it lacked a little before.
Overall the car is much more drivable now, get up and go is fairly the same, but the midrange torque actually makes it very capable when you driving quickly in between 2-4th gear.
I paid a little more than was being advertised at the time to use QS Tuning because of their experience hoping this would count for something when they tweaked the APR map. I've never used them before, but their workshop was impressive, and spotless and they have some very highend machinery in there. There is a bit of an 'elitest' feel there though in my opinion.
Sadly, we had already had a bit of a tiff as the owner claimed we never had a phone call before lockdown agreeing on price matching Awesome GTI (at the time - £366 inc dyno runs). I'm not one who likes being called a liar. Anyhow, he convinced me to pay the additional to use them and would price match the Black Friday deal that was on, and they will 'make any adjustments on the map afterwards', 'road test' and 'look after me'. Other than a frosty reception in the morning, they didn't do any of those, and I wasn't in the mood for an argument, It was made metaphorically clear my cheapo job was a bit of an inconvenience . So it's essentially just a direct APR map, so there probably are some tweaks that could have been made to improve it further.
I had it matched to a Black Friday Awesome GTI Price of £385 , plus £40 dyno time (Awesome GTI include the dyno time). The Awesome/APR price is back up to nearly £500 now, so I probably did ok.
If anyone see's anything untoward in the graphs please mention it!