Is a remap safe for my engine?
The honest answer depends on the engine in front of you, not on remapping in general. Here is what actually determines it.
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The questions
The questions
people ring and ask
Written by the people who do the work, mostly because the same six questions come up every week and the internet answers them badly.
No sales pitchSeveral of these argue against spending
Written hereNot bought in or spun
UpdatedWhen the answer changes, so does the page
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How to read a dyno graph without being fooled
Two lines on a chart, and four ways the trade makes them say something they should not.
Remapping, warranty and insurance: the straight version
What a manufacturer can actually decline, what you must tell your insurer, and what it usually costs.
Stage 1 or Stage 2? Almost everyone wants Stage 1
Where the line falls, why the numbers are not standardised, and when the second one is genuinely worth it.
Why your DPF keeps blocking, and why deleting it is not the answer
It is an MOT failure and it is illegal. It is also usually a symptom of something cheaper to fix.
Economy tuning on a van that does 30,000 miles a year
Where the saving actually comes from, roughly what it is worth, and when it does not pay.
The files nobody admits to buying in
A large slice of the industry resells generic software. How to tell, and why it matters for your car.
Why any of this is on a tuning site
A remap is one of the few things people buy for a car without being able to check what they got. That asymmetry is why the trade has the reputation it has, and writing plainly about it is the cheapest way we know of closing the gap.
Some of these argue against spending money with us. The DPF article talks people out of a job we could have charged for, and the Stage 2 one sends most readers back to Stage 1. That is the point — if the honest answer costs us a booking, it was not a booking worth having.
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Where we work
Software-only jobs we do at your address — driveway, office car park or yard. Anything that needs measuring comes to the unit, because a rolling road does not travel.
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