RichieCUK1986 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:14 pm
Harrihealey02 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 25, 2021 5:00 pm
Remap reliability is good if you go with a reputable company such as superchips (remap kings) or AMD tuning etc. The east engines are software limited is so they can bring out more power in the exact same engine in a newer model in the future to entice more buyers. The engines are designed to run in all different kinds of countries with different fuel qualities etc. and biggest concern for retailers is that they build in the possibility of missed service intervals so they have to be softer for more bulletproof durability. If you remap which I would suggest, then change your engine oil every 8 or 10k miles as the engine will require you to stick to the oil service interval strictly.
That sounds brilliant. I've heard some people saying the car would.need a different clutch if I got it remapped. I know nothing about cars.
I would go to Superchips for the remap and I always get my car serviced every year on time so hopefully that would help
That sounds like the blurb remap companies roll out to persuade you that you have nothing to worry about when you remap, but almost never put up and give you a drivetrain warranty should the worst happen. For different markets with different expected minimum fuel quality, different emissions standards and different temperature/humidity profiles, VW will have regional maps e.g. a car for UK/Northern Europe will be set up differently from the same car with an intended market in Sub Saharan Africa.
If you up your torque considerably, you are quite likely to fry your clutch and need a more resilient one fitted.
When I had a Golf R, unmodified, the clutch would slip under very cold conditions. For pretty much every manual Golf GTI owner who had a remap to get then up from 230-245ps/380Nm to around 300ps/450Nm, the clutch was fried in no time and had to be swapped out for a Sach sintered or organic clutch. That says to me that there is pretty much zero headroom on the clutches that the Golf has. I'd imagine the Polo's will be no better.
For DSG boxes you may need a gearbox remap to increase the clutch plate clamping pressure.
You might find the 95ps and 115ps variants of a 1.0TSI share a lot of components, so fine to get that 95 up a bit without issue. However, when you're pushing to 140ps and 20% more torque, you're well beyond any existing variants of that engine.
If you get a drivetrain fault that requires warranty work, if increased output could be suspected as a cause, you are running the risk of the work being refused if the remap is detected either directly or indirectly (logged implausible values for running parameters).