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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #30 on: 04 September 2010, 12:45 »
A while back my local VW dealer said they had there demo car at the time done (they are also a VWracing dealer so it was the VWR superchip one) and got a gain of 47bhp.
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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #31 on: 04 September 2010, 15:41 »

Er not quite, mine was in the showroom from Nov09 took the car March 1st 2010 mine is locked off scrambled ECU needs to come out. Tried Blufin wont take it :sad:

I didn't comment on GTDs...

I think the GTd's could be more likely to blow turbo's with re-maps on them thats why there scrambled, and also save VW having to replace them under warrenty's??? :lipsrsealed:

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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #32 on: 04 September 2010, 16:08 »

I think the GTd's could be more likely to blow turbo's with re-maps on them thats why there scrambled, and also save VW having to replace them under warrenty's??? :lipsrsealed:

I suspect it's more down to known issues with DPFs and remapped diesels...they clog up, and people expect VW to replace them...
Many a remapped Mk5 has had a DPF problem...

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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #33 on: 04 September 2010, 16:46 »
^ I was going to say that but did not want to get into the DPF discussion again  :grin: :wink:
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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #34 on: 04 September 2010, 17:01 »
^ I was going to say that but did not want to get into the DPF discussion again  :grin: :wink:

Mine's Common rail so the dpf is not much of a problem!! :grin:

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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #35 on: 04 September 2010, 17:31 »
^ I was going to say that but did not want to get into the DPF discussion again  :grin: :wink:

Mine's Common rail so the dpf is not much of a problem!! :grin:

Yeah, right...
Since when did the DPF care whether it's PD or CR that's pressurising the fuel that's being injected to cause the soot?
Re-map a diesel and you produce more smoke/soot...giving the DPF a harder time.

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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #36 on: 04 September 2010, 20:45 »
My vote is for Bluefin. It's a less aggressive map matching the original graph but with higher levels of power and torque.
The difference is around 40 -50 bhp but it feels much better than that.

Ease of use is brilliant too , it's a 10 minute job to restore to the original map (not a 'replacement' original but the original which is stored on the handset).

Superchips have a 7 day trial to make up your mind.

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If it doesn't work - send it back.
If you get too scared - send it back.
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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #37 on: 04 September 2010, 22:23 »
^ I was going to say that but did not want to get into the DPF discussion again  :grin: :wink:

Mine's Common rail so the dpf is not much of a problem!! :grin:

Yeah, right...
Since when did the DPF care whether it's PD or CR that's pressurising the fuel that's being injected to cause the soot?
Re-map a diesel and you produce more smoke/soot...giving the DPF a harder time.
no problems with my DPF cars done 5k now :smug: feels it a bit like your slagging my motor off Ess3  :rolleyes:
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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #38 on: 05 September 2010, 05:46 »
no problems with my DPF cars done 5k now :smug: feels it a bit like your slagging my motor off Ess3  :rolleyes:

Not at all...
But petrols suffer from different problems to diesels once chipped as the engines behave differently. Soot will always be a by-product of cranking the wick up on a diesel by the very nature of the fuel...and DPFs don't like excessive soot.
not slagging your car off at all...just pointing out that DPFs can give problems on a standard car if the duty cycle isn't ideal...and I have more friends that have had problems with DPF equipped cars, than have had not....so the issue exists.
And where certain tuning companies are concerned - "it's not our problem mate".

I looked very closely into remapping a Mk5 PD170 - the DPF issue rang alarm bells.

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Re: Revo stage 1 vs Bluefin
« Reply #39 on: 05 September 2010, 09:03 »
no problems with my DPF cars done 5k now :smug: feels it a bit like your slagging my motor off Ess3  :rolleyes:

Not at all...
But petrols suffer from different problems to diesels once chipped as the engines behave differently. Soot will always be a by-product of cranking the wick up on a diesel by the very nature of the fuel...and DPFs don't like excessive soot.
not slagging your car off at all...just pointing out that DPFs can give problems on a standard car if the duty cycle isn't ideal...and I have more friends that have had problems with DPF equipped cars, than have had not....so the issue exists.
And where certain tuning companies are concerned - "it's not our problem mate".

I looked very closely into remapping a Mk5 PD170 - the DPF issue rang alarm bells.
ok mate  :wink:

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