opportunity for you mk6 owners regarding forge motorsport

[Mr GTD]

^^^ That's what I thought Neil, but Forge had my Mk6 for a week to try to develop a Twintake before the for Mk6 which was unsuccessful and can say it's not something I would recommend people do.

Yeah come on Steve we wonna know more...

[PenguinGTI]

A while back when I was up at Crail I ran into a guy who had donated his Megane RS 250 to Forge for development work on a FMIC. He was happy enough with the intercooler once he had his car back but they had altered all his software (basically installed a half-assed map onto his car) which had to be completely redone (obviously not at the dealers) and they had left his exhaust completely misaligned. He wasn't that impressed with the overall package although the intercooler itself was good.

[Mr GTD]

A while back when I was up at Crail I ran into a guy who had donated his Megane RS 250 to Forge for development work on a FMIC. He was happy enough with the intercooler once he had his car back but they had altered all his software (basically installed a half-assed map onto his car) which had to be completely redone (obviously not at the dealers) and they had left his exhaust completely misaligned. He wasn't that impressed with the overall package although the intercooler itself was good.

Oh dear, so I guess...if there is anyone out there willing enough to lend there pride and joy, BE WARNED!!

[PenguinGTI]

I'm not specifically having a go at Forge - I think their products are very good. More just to warn people that development work is very much "in progress".

[Jimble]

Theres members on here with their own business that buy cars to do r&d then sell them on afterwards, surely a company as well known as Forge should be able to do the same? 

[ScottA]

Theres members on here with their own business that buy cars to do r&d then sell them on afterwards, surely a company as well known as Forge should be able to do the same? 

Or even talk to a dealership about hiring one - anything's possible!

[PenguinGTI]

Theres members on here with their own business that buy cars to do r&d then sell them on afterwards, surely a company as well known as Forge should be able to do the same? 

Or even talk to a dealership about hiring one - anything's possible!

This was discussed back when the original plea was made which SteveP is referring to. For the amount of products which Forge Motorsport develop (and the range of vehicles they cater for) it would be impractical for them to acquire each individual vehicle through purchase. Even if they did sell them on.

As for dealerships... well Mountune certainly has access to Ford's R&D but I doubt VW would hand out models freely for punters to tinker with.

[ScottA]

Theres members on here with their own business that buy cars to do r&d then sell them on afterwards, surely a company as well known as Forge should be able to do the same? 

Or even talk to a dealership about hiring one - anything's possible!

This was discussed back when the original plea was made which SteveP is referring to. For the amount of products which Forge Motorsport develop (and the range of vehicles they cater for) it would be impractical for them to acquire each individual vehicle through purchase. Even if they did sell them on.

As for dealerships... well Mountune certainly has access to Ford's R&D but I doubt VW would hand out models freely for punters to tinker with.

Maybe not freely but I'm sure a dealership would be happy to make a bit of £££ out of a used GTI that's sitting on their forecourt

[PenguinGTI]

Theres members on here with their own business that buy cars to do r&d then sell them on afterwards, surely a company as well known as Forge should be able to do the same? 

Or even talk to a dealership about hiring one - anything's possible!

This was discussed back when the original plea was made which SteveP is referring to. For the amount of products which Forge Motorsport develop (and the range of vehicles they cater for) it would be impractical for them to acquire each individual vehicle through purchase. Even if they did sell them on.

As for dealerships... well Mountune certainly has access to Ford's R&D but I doubt VW would hand out models freely for punters to tinker with.

Maybe not freely but I'm sure a dealership would be happy to make a bit of £££ out of a used GTI that's sitting on their forecourt

That's true. But I'm sure they be deterred by the potential clean-up should the "tinkerer" make a mistake or two.

And perhaps more importantly, would you trust a dealer who did so? I doubt any dealer who rented the car for tuning development would freely disclose such use of the vehicle to a potential customer. 

[wigit]

good to see forge are still after one, they were still on the hunt at Autosport back in January when i last spoke Alex who said they couldn't get the twin take to work as were having noise issues with it, i declined their generous off back then given i'm not a fanboy of their stuff and two weeks is really taking the p$ss