with good mpg
.Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using TapatalkAndy Beats wrote:I'm getting around 43mpg from my 1.0Tsi 95bhp.
That's driven very gently though.
If I even briefly put my foot down, it plummets into the thirties.
I'm only on 300 miles, I'm hoping it gets better as it loosens off.
That's a suspiciously cheap box - it must be very unsophisticated in how it is modifying ECU signals. A decent box is usually circa £350. I wouldn't describe 15ps on 95ps as particularly low level as a percentage gain (16%) without other hardware modification. Most performance ones give an extra 20% without other mods.Andy Beats wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:21 pm I'm thinking of putting a low-level tuning box on mine.
Chip-tuning do a £109 box that gives an extra 15bhp and, more importantly, 30NM of torque.
That extra torque should mean lighter throttle openings are needed to make progress and improve MPG.
Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using TapatalkAndy Beats wrote:I'm thinking of putting a low-level tuning box on mine.
Chip-tuning do a £109 box that gives an extra 15bhp and, more importantly, 30NM of torque.
That extra torque should mean lighter throttle openings are needed to make progress and improve MPG.
I was a bit miffed when I got my car how it drank through fuelAdam_013 wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 11:51 am It should do. I was worried when I first got mine.. a 200 mile trip seemed to drink fuel. But now it seems to get better as the miles go on the clock.Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using TapatalkAndy Beats wrote:I'm getting around 43mpg from my 1.0Tsi 95bhp.
That's driven very gently though.
If I even briefly put my foot down, it plummets into the thirties.
I'm only on 300 miles, I'm hoping it gets better as it loosens off.
It's the cheapest racechip box.monkeyhanger wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 1:26 pmThat's a suspiciously cheap box - it must be very unsophisticated in how it is modifying ECU signals. A decent box is usually circa £350. I wouldn't describe 15ps on 95ps as particularly low level as a percentage gain (16%) without other hardware modification. Most performance ones give an extra 20% without other mods.Andy Beats wrote: Wed Nov 14, 2018 12:21 pm I'm thinking of putting a low-level tuning box on mine.
Chip-tuning do a £109 box that gives an extra 15bhp and, more importantly, 30NM of torque.
That extra torque should mean lighter throttle openings are needed to make progress and improve MPG.
You honestly won't see any discernible actual gains in mpg from that extra torque, what you will see is higher indicated mpg from the box fooling the car into thinking it is using less fuel because it is putting more fuel in relative to throttle press. What you put in at the pumps won't change. You'll see gains in the Summer attributed to the warmer humid air giving you a bigger combustion expansion and you'll think it's the box. You'll see running in gains and you'll think it's the box.
Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalkmonkeyhanger wrote:^ Why is the cheap one so cheap? I'd expect it to have a very crude map and perhaps only songle channel modification compared to the higher priced units.
The selling point of the site is that variants of the same engine have all the same hardware, implying that the lower models are massively overengineered and can therefore be ramped up in power.
That's simply not true - VW have many differences between variants of the same engine - the Polo GTI's engine is not simply a 300ps Golf R engine with software retardation. Different size turbo, injectors, fuel pumps, clutches etc are employed in the VW range - even between the 1.0TSI output variants.
Most likely thing to fail is the clutch, especially on manual TSI units.
I had a tuning box on my Golf GTD, it was great - the car pulled in 6th like it used to in 4th, but the clutch put into the 2.0TDI unit is the same for all output variants over 150ps and is renowned for being massively overengineered. I wouldn't dare remap my Golf R - the clutch is just about up to the task of stock output (it has briefly slipped twice in 4th during the 2 coldest days of last Winter. Golf GTI and R with remap are a cert to have clutch slip In a manual box, but not with the DSG box.
Box use was once nigh on impossible to detect if you took it off for services/warranty work, the dealerships are wise to it now and there are many sensory tells. You risk binning your drivetrain warranty with a box on, so I'd give it a year to ensure there are no imminent manufacturing failures.