Not that simple !

Jamesemt had his Ibiza TDi mapped a la petrol, dual mass flywheel could cope with 400 lb.ft. at tick-over.... so he asked for less at low revs and more at higher revs.

Mapper did it in seconds and he's very happy with the way it pulls towards the red-line. (4000 rpm ? ).

Still cost less than half my re-map did !

dunx

 

I dont get the techincal sides of the license, is it a physical thing or just a piece of paper with a serial number?

 

Neither - it is a bunch of code in the ECU. The mapper uses up a serial number and has to renew it.

 

you also need to factor in the cost of the mappers hardware etc etc

widebands do not last forever
not everybody has a flashable stock ecu and sometimes they need to buy new software+leads to work on different cars.

i can not remember the costs properly now, but off the top of my head it cost me approx £150ish for the wideband + controller £200 for a second hand apexi ecu and around £170ish for the apexi software + dongle/lead, i then spent a LONG time + around 4 full tanks of juice learning what the hell i and gotten myself into

the average chap in the street still gets good value IMO from going to a well known mapper and paying around £500-600 all in.

i only did it my way because i wanted to learn how to do it and look dead good i am also a right bellend when it comes to looking smug at people, the same people who thought i would never be able to do it (you know who you are lol)

if i was mapping other peoples cars i could make the expense back in time, but i don't fancy that for various reasons.

it does mean that i now know what i am doing, i learned quite a bit, which was the main goal and any car in the future i can dabble with as long as i have means to hook up the lappy

when ever i drive my car now i look on the engine totally different, its really bizzare, i can pretty much see where i am in the map at any given time, a bit like neo seeing everything in code in the matrix only totally nothing like it lmfao!

 

I'm always shocked that, for the high price, there tends to be not much in the way of a warranty.

 

LOL

 

My car was mapped at what was WRC @ Silverstone, by the previous owner..... how would i get on should I want any work done, would I have to pay full wack?

 

wont pay license, but doubt you'll be able to use old map so have to have a full remap done