No Tuning For 2010 GTIs? *REVO now loaded :-)*

[am1w]

Solution: Get an R, get the power, preserve the warranty and bleed your bank balance!

[R32UK]

Solution: Get an R, get the power, preserve the warranty and bleed your bank balance!

i would still get the R remapped

[am1w]

Solution: Get an R, get the power, preserve the warranty and bleed your bank balance!

i would still get the R remapped

Power corrupts. Absolutely!

[SteveP]

Although I can see your reasoning behind going with an authorized agent... you are essentially paying double for the same thing Revo are offereing. The fact that they will honour the VW warranty should tell you something

Hypothetical question here: if your turbo fails, or a CV joint collapses, or your DSG breaks and your local dealer turns around and says 'not my problem mate, you've had it re-mapped', Revo will step in and replace those parts?

No they won't, and neither will the vast majority of the tuners out there.

It's such a grey area as IMHO there are very few issues that you could 100% say would not have occurred if the car hadn't been remapped.

I like my warranty but if your sensible and talk to your VW dealer you might be very surprised if you ever need to claim.

My old Edition 30 had a £1200 DSG mechantronics replacement warranty claim accepted and it was running Stage 2+ spec.

[R32UK]

Have to agree with steve on this one... although the fact that the mechantronics unit failure is a common issue may have helped.

[herbie911]

I am not impressed with VWR.
Rung them twice and they never call back. If they are just a bit more enthusiastic for business they would have got my business!
Don't think their customer service is up to scratch.
You only got 2 choices if you go down the VWR route. Pop your car down to Milton Keynes or go Northeast to Sunderland.
If your car goes wrong, don't think they will bother to reply email or returns calls!
When I complained on this forum, their managing director Sam Roach told me they are a racing team, looking after tuned VW road cars is not their main business priority-email to proved!

They do run a race team...so in line with every other pukka race team they are busy during the race season.
Personally, I understand this....and in some ways it sets them apart from other companies that call them selves 'xx Racing' or 'yy Motorsport' where nobody they works for them have ever seen a race track....let alone actually built and run one.

I have Sam and Matts phone numbers and always find them helpful, and professional.

But, I accept that during the race season they can be hard to get hold of.

All I'll suggest is to keep trying as their stuff works...and works well.

That's the whole point! If the product breakdown, you tried to ring them to rectify. They are so busy racing they will conveniently forgot to ring you back! I contacted them twice---the second time using my dad's name----same result!
I had used other tuning outlet which involve racing (Tech9, Graham Goode, GruppeM, Peugeot Motorsport) in the past and I had no problem contacting them and they are very good in answering my queries!

[KennyGTI]

Back to the point for anyone interested lol, going to my REVO dealer today to try load the stage 1 map on it. Will let you know the results tonight, fingers crossed 

[KennyGTI]

Solution: Get an R, get the power, preserve the warranty and bleed your bank balance!

i would still get the R remapped

Me too lol 

[ErikGTI]

If I was to remap my car, I would probably only use VW Racing. I'm sure the warranty is not void in any way through these guys.

And you would have a superchip's bluefin remap without the bluefin handset (but paying a lot more for it) 

Warranty is key though mate, I'd gladly pay that bit extra to keep it intact.

Exactly my point of view  ...

Although I can see your reasoning behind going with an authorized agent... you are essentially paying double for the same thing Revo are offereing. The fact that they will honour the VW warranty should tell you something

You are right...my first intention was to go there (some company simular JD Engineering) but the lease company stopped me....only ABT or otherwise NOT ALLOWED.....

I ended up paying 3035 euro...

[Steve30]

This thread is boring me now!!