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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: remlapeel on 17 October 2016, 08:38
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Hi guys,
My R goes back tomorrow and I need to get my revo map removed. My local revo dealer has quoted £60 to remove it, but I'd prefer not to spend so much just to hand the car back. Is there another way? Could another tuner flash over the revo map?
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Why? Does anyone need to know?
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Is there a Revo dealer near you? I'm pretty sure they'd remove it FOC if so?
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If it's going back to a VW dealer, they can do it, that's if you tell them about it.
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Yeah this is my local dealer. They removed it free last time but they want £60 this time. Looks like I don't have an option really, I'll just get it done
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And I thought us Scottish folk were supposed to be the tight ones :grin: :grin:
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Why? Does anyone need to know?
Exactly. I traded my Golf in with it remapped.
I'm sure the next owner will have been delighted with it.
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£60???!! :shocked: :shocked:
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Yeah this is my local dealer. They removed it free last time but they want £60 this time. Looks like I don't have an option really, I'll just get it done
Sorry, I misread your original post and thought it was the VW dealer charging!
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I think REVO leave it to the dealers discretion as to whether they charge.
£60 is a lot but you might have to bite the bullet.
The last car I had with REVO ended up being sold with the map still live but on its low power map as the REVO agent was going to charge me for removing it despite the fact I'd known him for years and years.
Funnily enough I've not been back since as he used to maintain my other car too.
It's like any mod though. You pay to play to use a hideously corny phrase with a slant on REVO's Go Play advertising.
As an example, if you get a suspension kit fitted you pay to get it removed before trading or lease hand back. The only difference with software is the guy removing it doesn't get his hands dirty and it takes minutes not hours...
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I had mine removed for free by Alex at AKS, he did refit the OEM TBE though so he made some money out of me.
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So what did you do in the end OP?
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Found a local company who did it for £50. It's the principle really. Revo have had a lot of my money and I wasn't going to hand them more for 15minutes work with a laptop.
The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.
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Found a local company who did it for £50. It's the principle really. Revo have had a lot of my money and I wasn't going to hand them more for 15minutes work with a laptop.
The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.
Revo won't see a penny of it you are paying for the independent's time. I can imagine if they looked after your car did bits and had fitted some aftermarket parts you may get a different answer but they lose sight you will not sue them again.
Revo used to do mine but in reality I had a dealer put it back when they were doing other bits to the car
Generally it used to be around £30 quoted for this so seems time are a changing
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The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.
But £50 is £50 also, and I don't understand why you had it done anyway.
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The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.
But £50 is £50 also, and I don't understand why you had it done anyway.
It was a leased car.
£50 is better than any potential comeback. Money well spent.
I appreciate REVO agents don't work for free but there's a big mark up on remaps and it's not just the remap work they get coming their way either as it's surprising how many people who invest in a remap come back to have other items fitted.
A couple hundred quid to have a suspension kit fitted and then a couple hundred to have it removed again prior to sale is fair enough. £60 for a few minutes work with a laptop is less acceptable.
Is it any wonder that bolt on boxes are back in vogue big time and are becoming ever more sophisticated?
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I don't charge my customers to remove Revo maps, it's part of our customer service approach. Revo make no charge to the dealer for the standard map.
But to be fair to your dealer, workshop time costs, he's not a charity and it takes more than 15 minutes to download the file, flash the ecu and complete the post re-flash checks. He may view it as an hour of workshop time as a minimum charge. Especially if he's reflashed it before.
VW dealers systems will flash the map back to standard if taken back with a remap on, but the system will record that the vehicle had been mapped. If it doesn't affect your return value with the lease company, hand it back to the dealer and let them sort it during their service checks.
Hope this helps.