Horror stories

[RTechUK]

As far as i know mate the bore is damaged. Im going to fit the new engine and see what happens from there. I dont have alot of money and im out of work. Got a job interview tomorrow and if all goes well then i might come up and pay a visist if not then the car will defo be sold.  Ill keep you posted.

Fingers crossed for the job mate,

With your old engine dont bin it, strip the good piston and road and wack them on ebay, plus the crank will also sell, plus the block might be good for a 1.9 rebore and some one might want to take it off your hands, might be £150+ in the old engie stripped..

Nick

[RTechUK]

Heres one for you all,
"MAJOR R-Tech HORROR STORY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN!"

The close shave to a horror story was when a guy on this forum booked in for a mobile remap in Derby, with less then 12hours before we was due to remap the car we got a PM from the guy saying he had just chucked one of the con rods out of the side of the engine as he wall pulling out of a petrol station. (in low tech terms it totally fecked engine good and propa)

The guy got hold of a new engine and fitted it, then as far as I know that spat the rod out or blew up aswell not long after ..   There is a long thread somewhere on the froum the guys name was Ben or Barry summat like that, he had an AGU.

The way I look at is as a close shave it that if first engine lasted just an extra 12hours until after we remapped the car, then spat the rod out later that day....then who would have been to blame?

And to make things worse it happened again to another engine.

Now that would have been a situation for us to be in.. :embarassed: 

But we would of done as much as we can to look after the guy and get him back up and running even though it would have not been our not fault.   We did offer to help him out and get the car back up and running so he could have the remap carried out.  I wonder what happend to that guy and his car in the end?

Engines fail all the time, stock mapping no one to blame or shout out, remapped car the tuner takes all the ear bashing and threats. :embarassed:


Nick

[JC]

you need security at your place nick, I'm free in a year 

[vwprime]

That was very luck and a close call for you chaps
I wounder what happande to him and why the engings went bag in the first place?

[RTechUK]

That was very luck and a close call for you chaps
I wounder what happande to him and why the engings went bag in the first place?

There is always an underlaying issues when they go bang, even more so then the keep going bang.

In the summer we had a young lad on ukmivs had an AUM which was on its 3rd engine I think, since his CC stage2 remap, I think he came to us se we would point blame at the CC remap,  lol far from it I told him it was an issues else where and he looked shocked? how could it be on 3 engine? I said to leave the car with us and i would find the cause,  after 30mins I found the fault to be the actuator body bent which was jamming the waste gate totally shut do the ecu had not controll of the boost and could not limp the engine.  IMO this fault was caused during a clutch change, which cause the 1 engine to blow, them they bolted the old turbo back on to the 2nd engine and band and so on.... Its comedy we see it every week.

I could have said yer its the map, we will map it again and it will never happen again..and made CC look bad in the customer eyes....but we aint like that we knew it was the car and not the mapping, just a shame other compaines are not like us.
 Then he went out in an r-tech remapped car and that changed very thing...    As far as i know he is still on his 3rd engine and loving the R-Tech power..


I can go on and on with stories like this.

Another one, 
I got a call from guy a few weeks back a month or so after we remapped his AGU, he reported a missfire under load which we told him was his ignition amp which it was he fixed and was happy,  then yesterday the same guy calls and says his MPG has started to drop, which we said CTS, he says is local tuner in Lichfield told me you have remapped the car by using lemmiwinks (google it to find out about it) via the obd port...wtf  which only changes the fuel and boost a small amount an this is why is started to over fuel, the remap is crap as and the only way to tune the AGU with a full map is take the ecu out and fit a new chip. The lichfield tuner was keen to take money off him for a new chip tune remap, but didnt mention about the CTS???     Looking for the tuner in lichfield who I can give a phone call to and rip him to bits...   As far as I know they can tuner every make and model out there so IMO the are already crap.


Now can you see the point I am getting across?

Nick

[Adam]

There are some very dodgy tuning companies out there and your not one of them

[(shakey)]

nick you have so ripped that lad off  .


hahahahaha joking as said b4 hand when mappin a car you are always goin to add added stress on the car its common sense more power more stress.

anyway nick you havnt answered my message i sent you  .

[RTechUK]

nick you have so ripped that lad off  .


hahahahaha joking as said b4 hand when mappin a car you are always goin to add added stress on the car its common sense more power more stress.

anyway nick you havnt answered my message i sent you  .

And it was an R-Tech map that stuffed your AGU Golf in to that central reservation the other year..lol   Lol time no speak m8, how are you doing.

I can remap a Vauhall and do you a favor....pop. and get you back driving a VW, call me tomorrow and I will see what I can do for you.

[coolio]

Heres one for you all,
"MAJOR R-Tech HORROR STORY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN!"

The close shave to a horror story was when a guy on this forum booked in for a mobile remap in Derby, with less then 12hours before we was due to remap the car we got a PM from the guy saying he had just chucked one of the con rods out of the side of the engine as he wall pulling out of a petrol station. (in low tech terms it totally fecked engine good and propa)

The guy got hold of a new engine and fitted it, then as far as I know that spat the rod out or blew up aswell not long after ..   There is a long thread somewhere on the froum the guys name was Ben or Barry summat like that, he had an AGU.

The way I look at is as a close shave it that if first engine lasted just an extra 12hours until after we remapped the car, then spat the rod out later that day....then who would have been to blame?

And to make things worse it happened again to another engine.

Now that would have been a situation for us to be in.. :embarassed: 

But we would of done as much as we can to look after the guy and get him back up and running even though it would have not been our not fault.   We did offer to help him out and get the car back up and running so he could have the remap carried out.  I wonder what happend to that guy and his car in the end?

Engines fail all the time, stock mapping no one to blame or shout out, remapped car the tuner takes all the ear bashing and threats. :embarassed:


Nick

interesting story , so basically speaking if the engine blew up while in ur possesion doing the remap ur company will take full responsibility for it

[Rhyso]

Heres one for you all,
"MAJOR R-Tech HORROR STORY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN!"

The close shave to a horror story was when a guy on this forum booked in for a mobile remap in Derby, with less then 12hours before we was due to remap the car we got a PM from the guy saying he had just chucked one of the con rods out of the side of the engine as he wall pulling out of a petrol station. (in low tech terms it totally fecked engine good and propa)

The guy got hold of a new engine and fitted it, then as far as I know that spat the rod out or blew up aswell not long after ..   There is a long thread somewhere on the froum the guys name was Ben or Barry summat like that, he had an AGU.

The way I look at is as a close shave it that if first engine lasted just an extra 12hours until after we remapped the car, then spat the rod out later that day....then who would have been to blame?

And to make things worse it happened again to another engine.

Now that would have been a situation for us to be in.. :embarassed: 

But we would of done as much as we can to look after the guy and get him back up and running even though it would have not been our not fault.   We did offer to help him out and get the car back up and running so he could have the remap carried out.  I wonder what happend to that guy and his car in the end?

Engines fail all the time, stock mapping no one to blame or shout out, remapped car the tuner takes all the ear bashing and threats. :embarassed:


Nick

interesting story , so basically speaking if the engine blew up while in ur possesion doing the remap ur company will take full responsibility for it

i wouldn't have thought so........Nick would help as much as he can to get it sorted but the reason an engine fails is not down to a map on its own. 

The map will only magnify an existing issue and its this which many people don't fully understand.  If something goes wrong after the remap its all too easy to point blame directly at the map itself