« Reply #16 on: 13 February 2014, 16:15 »
Better off buying a car with the power you want out of the box in reality.
Ideally yes but my theory is that it's pointless buying a modern turbo car that drives as dull as ditchwater due to eco friendly factory mapping (be it a 320 bhp M135i or a 210 bhp GTI or TDI or whatever). I think it a bit pointless going past stage 1 when there's a factory standard car producing more power for a similar expenditure that could cheaply be taken to stage 1 tune without upsetting reliability (unless you drive like a twit)
All modern cars are dull to drive, there's hardly any difference in feel between something really quick and a 1.2 TSI, it's just that the speedo goes round a bit quicker and you're hitting the brakes a bit sooner.
A stage 1 tune just gives the car a bit of 'feel'
So I decided to get the gti remapped and fitted a VWR intake with stage 2 pipe. The car is a 2012 done 19,500 miles and I was really excited about getting to use the extra power. To my massive disappointment the clutch now slips in 4th, 5th and 6th. Has this happened to anyone else, if so what clutch route have you gone down and how much (if you don't mind me asking) or is it back to standard tomorrow 
Ask the tuner to wind the boost back at lower RPM's
Should be an easy fix.
Then don't floor the accelerator at 2000rpm in the higher gears.
The only car I ever had clutch slip on was a remapped 140 TDI many many moons ago. I got the tuner to reduce low RPM boost and it drove just fine ever after.
Stage 1 tunes are the sweet spot for tuning. Go past that and you throw out the balance and have to modify every part of the car to compensate
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