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Offline Raffe

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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #10 on: 18 October 2016, 10:12 »
I had mine removed for free by Alex at AKS, he did refit the OEM TBE though so he made some money out of me.
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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #11 on: 18 October 2016, 10:20 »
So what did you do in the end OP?
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Offline remlapeel

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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #12 on: 19 October 2016, 12:23 »
Found a local company who did it for £50. It's the principle really. Revo have had a lot of my money and I wasn't going to hand them more for 15minutes work with a laptop.

The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.

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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #13 on: 19 October 2016, 13:47 »
Found a local company who did it for £50. It's the principle really. Revo have had a lot of my money and I wasn't going to hand them more for 15minutes work with a laptop.

The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.

Revo won't see a penny of it you are paying for the independent's time. I can imagine if they looked after your car did bits and had fitted some aftermarket parts you may get a different answer but they lose sight you will not sue them again.

Revo used to do mine but in reality I had a dealer put it back when they were doing other bits to the car

Generally it used to be around £30 quoted for this so seems time are a changing


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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #14 on: 19 October 2016, 14:55 »
The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.

But £50 is £50 also, and I don't understand why you had it done anyway.
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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #15 on: 19 October 2016, 15:49 »
The local guys did it well, got me in at the time that suited me and were more grateful for the money and to be honest it may only be £10 saved, but £10 is £10 and why give it to revo when I can keep it lol.

But £50 is £50 also, and I don't understand why you had it done anyway.

It was a leased car.
£50 is better than any potential comeback. Money well spent.

I appreciate REVO agents don't work for free but there's a big mark up on remaps and it's not just the remap work they get coming their way either as it's surprising how many people who invest in a remap come back to have other items fitted.
A couple hundred quid to have a suspension kit fitted and then a couple hundred to have it removed again prior to sale is fair enough. £60 for a few minutes work with a laptop is less acceptable.
 
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Re: Remap removal question
« Reply #16 on: 19 October 2016, 20:29 »
I don't charge my customers to remove Revo maps, it's part of our customer service approach. Revo make no charge to the dealer for the standard map.

But to be fair to your dealer, workshop time costs, he's not a charity and it takes more than 15 minutes to download the file, flash the ecu and complete the post re-flash checks. He may view it as an hour of workshop time as a minimum charge. Especially if he's reflashed it before.

VW dealers systems will flash the map back to standard if taken back with a remap on, but the system will record that the vehicle had been mapped. If it doesn't affect your return value with the lease company, hand it back to the dealer and let them sort it during their service checks.

Hope this helps.