« Reply #1 on: 29 September 2019, 10:33 »
Welcome Enda, good to have you along.
I’ve heard of DNA tuning but have zero experience of them (I’ve had around a dozen or more remaps so am reasonably familiar with the subject).
What a lot of these generic tuning companies do is buy in files from European tuning companies that sell both software and the hardware to write codes into ECUs. Anyone can buy this stuff.
The software might be absolutely fine, but it’s a gamble as to how smooth the power delivery will be and how the engine will behave under varying load conditions.
I’d risk a company like that on an older Diesel without all the emissions bolt ons as they’re very simple to tune (extra fuel, boost and try and keep EGT’s down).
With an expensive modern petrol engine with VVT and a chocolate clutch I’d be very wary.
The manual clutches are very weak so dumping a load of boost at peak spool (2000rpm ish) will wipe the clutch out in no time. They may well offer a low torque map though, be worth asking.
No disrespect to DNA but I’d rather wait for one of the big *specialist VW group* tuners to offer a Black Friday deal for around £500 or so and still be prepared to put in a new uprated clutch at some point if it starts to fail.
Personally I’d get a Burger Motorsports JB1 or JB4, fit it myself and play around with the settings (which I indeed did do on my earlier mk7’s) if the clutch didn’t agree with the shipped settings (I didn’t have any clutch issues with the standard settings, some people do). Or maybe a DTUK box (sorry Chris) which are often available second hand.
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