EA288 2.0 TDI 184PS Development thread..

[monkeyhanger]

Well my dad has been running my DTUK box for a week and done about 650 miles in it between stopping at mine on his way up to Aberdeen for a weeks work and back. He’s had 2 warnings come up but one was a traction issue (he flung it round a bend and the ESP stepped in hard) and the other was a false ACC activation – not anything to do with any torque limiters that the DSG may or may not have. He drove the car quite hard (harder than I would drive mine) and was very impressed overall. He begrudgingly offered it back until I get my R, but I told him to keep hold of it if he wanted to (I will appreciate the R more being 116ps down rather than 57ps down) and he didn’t even say “are you sure?”. 

Doesn’t seem anything wrong with how the box performs with a DSG GTD.

[Andy_cs]

Many thanks, does sound OK. Maybe I'll wait until winters passed

[virginVWman]

Similar to Monkeyhanger, I get my R in March and il be taking this off in Jan I'd suspect to get used to the stock power of the gtd to see now much of difference there really is. I know it's going to be huge, but with the DTUK box on at 240 to stock 300 with the r and not having test driven an r, I don't want to get in the r and be like....is this it. So il be selling it off dirt cheap. Won't even be a year old in jan, il punt it to anyone with a reasonable offer

[Andy_cs]

Monkeyhanger / virginVWman did you have any problems with your insurers when you fitted the box, did your premiums change much?

[monkeyhanger]

About +£40 for me and 1/2 of that was admin charge for the policy change. Some insurers won't touch a mod, best enquire after having a word with Andrew at DTUK.

[KyleB]

Send me a message virginVW when you decide to sell it mate and depending how much Christmas has wiped me out I'll take it.

[virginVWman]

No worries at all, we have a deal!

Not looking on making serious cash for it or top end price, far from as it would be going in the skip otherwise so any reasonable offer is fine with me. Itl be Jan more than likely if that's okay?

[Bluefloyd]

Finally going to order mine on the 15th dec when I get my bonus. Thanks to everyone on here for your reviews as I have never had a tuning box before and was always a remap guy myself so didn't know much about them. Andrews recent dyno figures helped persuade me too

[KyleB]

No worries at all, we have a deal!

Not looking on making serious cash for it or top end price, far from as it would be going in the skip otherwise so any reasonable offer is fine with me. Itl be Jan more than likely if that's okay?

Spot on mate.

[virginVWman]

Turn up for the books, forgot had to re-insure car, now with Churchill as opposed to Admiral so didn't see point insuring myself with the box, so itl be off as off this Sunday  let me know if its too early for you and I can always just hold on to it for a while