Imola-S3
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Just wondering if anyone else has had any experiences with this company (both the same company under different names).
Had my S3 remapped here about 4 or 5 months ago... seemed a good price for a full Rolling Road + 'Custom' tune.
Was given a printout showing my HP had gone from 202 up to 243 (on a stock S3 8L 1.8T APY) ... car initially felt 'slightly' improved, but within a few days the car felt different, either hesitant or surges and acceleration feels like its back to standard (or worse!).
I've recently replaced the MAF, N75 Valve, PCV Breather (Hockey Puck), Serviced my 007p DV, fitted new 2.0TFSI Coil packs with new Spark plugs gapped to .9mm... replaced vacuum pipes. Also had new Lambda sensor fitted less than a year ago... All done because I'm not happy with the map from 'Custom Remaps' and I'm going to be taking my car to Nick at R Tech later this month to be put right.
Today I bought a device from a tuning company local to us which is designed for VAG 1.8T cars and plugs into the OBD port and gives live performance stats as well as doing various other things like resetting fault codes etc. I took my car out and gave it some beans but could not make it achieve any more than 208HP.
My Dad also drives a 1.8T S3 with the AMK engine... he had his mapped by a local company to us without a rolling road and he was promised at least 240BHP from his remap. On this little device I bought his car achieves very close to that figure.
I know these plug in devices aren't going to be 100% accurate, but basing the fact that my Dads car is hitting roughly what it should be on a generic remap, and my car is lacking 35HP suggests something's not been done right. As though my car had never been mapped at all (even though I can tell it has because it drives nowhere near as smoothly as it did before the map was performed).
I'm not here at all to bash this company..... I'm just explaining my own personal experiences and stated what I've done to try and remedy it.
I have called them several times, and emailed them but over the phone I get fobbed off (the remapper is never available) and emails get ignored... I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a positive / negative experience with their VAG based car.
Obviously when I go to see Nick at R Tech later this month we'll determine if the mechanicals of my car have a problem (even though it's holding boost fine and has no fault codes whatsoever!) or if it's the ECU file which has been poorly tuned and is the cause of all my issues.
Cheers for your time.
Had my S3 remapped here about 4 or 5 months ago... seemed a good price for a full Rolling Road + 'Custom' tune.
Was given a printout showing my HP had gone from 202 up to 243 (on a stock S3 8L 1.8T APY) ... car initially felt 'slightly' improved, but within a few days the car felt different, either hesitant or surges and acceleration feels like its back to standard (or worse!).
I've recently replaced the MAF, N75 Valve, PCV Breather (Hockey Puck), Serviced my 007p DV, fitted new 2.0TFSI Coil packs with new Spark plugs gapped to .9mm... replaced vacuum pipes. Also had new Lambda sensor fitted less than a year ago... All done because I'm not happy with the map from 'Custom Remaps' and I'm going to be taking my car to Nick at R Tech later this month to be put right.
Today I bought a device from a tuning company local to us which is designed for VAG 1.8T cars and plugs into the OBD port and gives live performance stats as well as doing various other things like resetting fault codes etc. I took my car out and gave it some beans but could not make it achieve any more than 208HP.
My Dad also drives a 1.8T S3 with the AMK engine... he had his mapped by a local company to us without a rolling road and he was promised at least 240BHP from his remap. On this little device I bought his car achieves very close to that figure.
I know these plug in devices aren't going to be 100% accurate, but basing the fact that my Dads car is hitting roughly what it should be on a generic remap, and my car is lacking 35HP suggests something's not been done right. As though my car had never been mapped at all (even though I can tell it has because it drives nowhere near as smoothly as it did before the map was performed).
I'm not here at all to bash this company..... I'm just explaining my own personal experiences and stated what I've done to try and remedy it.
I have called them several times, and emailed them but over the phone I get fobbed off (the remapper is never available) and emails get ignored... I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a positive / negative experience with their VAG based car.
Obviously when I go to see Nick at R Tech later this month we'll determine if the mechanicals of my car have a problem (even though it's holding boost fine and has no fault codes whatsoever!) or if it's the ECU file which has been poorly tuned and is the cause of all my issues.
Cheers for your time.
