Very nice car indeed :thumbsup:
I do recognize the third picture very well, Can you just confirm where it is ?
As you must be near me anyway to get it remapped at Awesome.
Pub called the gray mare on the grain road between blackburn and bury
Car is great now, dropped her off at miglior last night for the new car prep but its gonna need some serious correction work as the paint is a disgrace.
Wow, 600 sheets.
It's a very nice kit, that's indisputable, but as my bonnet rarely gets opened it would be an extravagance too far for me at that price. I thought the S3 ITG kit was pricey (high 3's). I'd wholly under-estimated how far prices could be stretched for the addition of 2 cylinders on the S4/5 cars! I just looked at a valved Milltek on A5OC and they want £2600 (mind you I'm not alone in the view that is a bridge too far pricewise by the look of the thread).
I've obviously got champagne tastes and pi$$ money! A very nice unit, and if I had a windfall I'd consider it as it looks one of the most sympathetic to OEM designs I've seen (OEM+).
Love the remap... so, so tempted, Warren in particular is a bad influence.
Think I'm too much of a wuss though and worried about the warranty (or rather lack of it after the remap) to go through with it.
You shouldn't worry about the remap, its been confirmed that if you have the vehicle flashed back to stock its untraceable
Hmmm... I thought the latest ECU's tripped a flag (TD1) that even if flashed back to standard remained tripped? Also thought they logged more parameters so other flags could be set even if you used a tuning box which would normally be undetectable.
If however it was really true... then one more reason not to do it goes away.
I've read so much conflicting stuff on the web about TD1 I almost don't know what to believe anymore.
I believe the dealer could check the logs in the ECU to see if running parameters had exceeded the specified operating parameters, but I 'think' this is something they would only do in the event of a significant failure investigation (e.g. llBen RS5 engine failure scenario). Most techs struggle to fill the washer bottle, let alone perform active log reviews, so I'm not hugely concerned about that part.
However, whether there is something that could be auto picked up and logged at factory as part of software update (you're going to have to get car serviced whilst the map is on the car)?????
In 14 years of mapping I've been lucky (kiss of death!), but because I over-service and lavish excessive care on warm up / cool down regimes I think my exposure level is lower than some others to major catastrophic failure. That said, look at llBen, it can happen.
Hard part is when it's a £50k S5 it's a much bigger decision than a £30k S3 as the implications of costs could be vast if the worst happens.