ECU Remapping in Coalville

Either. Coalville is around nineteen and a half miles north of our workshop in Lutterworth, so coming to you is a normal part of the week rather than a special trip. We can work at the vehicle on a driveway, a street or a work car park as long as whoever runs the site is happy. If you would rather bring it to Rugby Road in Lutterworth, you are welcome.

That is a useful clue rather than a mystery. Twenty odd miles a day in two halves is not the same as twenty miles in one go, and a regeneration that starts near the end of your journey gets interrupted when you park. If the driving pattern should be clearing it and is not, something upstream is producing more soot than it should, and that needs diagnosing properly.

Usually a good deal of it, yes. The diagnostics, the live data and a forced regeneration can all be done at the vehicle. If the filter turns out to need removing for a deep clean, or the fault points at an injector or a sensor instead, we will tell you that before starting rather than halfway through. Sometimes the honest answer is that the filter is past cleaning.

That depends on you more than on us. Driven the same way afterwards, many cars use the same or a little less, because the engine is doing the same work with less effort. Driven the way the extra response invites, it will use more. Most people land somewhere in between. We will not promise you a percentage, because anyone who does before seeing the car is guessing.

About an hour to ninety minutes in most cases. That covers saving the original file, logging the engine on the road, writing and loading the map, and logging again afterwards to check the result. Some vehicles read and write more slowly than others and we will flag that when you book, so you can plan around it rather than find out on the day.

Not on a standard car, and we will say so rather than sell you one. Stage 2 assumes you have already changed how the engine breathes, usually intake and exhaust. Without that hardware there is nothing for the file to make use of. If you have fitted parts, tell us what they are and the map gets built around them. If you are planning to, ring before you buy, because the order matters.

It can, and it is better to know before than after. Manufacturer warranties, lease agreements and finance deals often carry conditions about modifications, and a fault traced back to a map can become an argument. We keep the original calibration so the vehicle can be returned to standard, but you should go in knowing where you stand. Say so at the enquiry stage and you will get a straight answer.

Yes, every time. A remap is a modification like any other and it needs declaring. Most insurers deal with it without fuss when they are told up front. The trouble only ever appears when it was not declared and then comes to light during a claim, and by then the conversation is a lot less relaxed than a two minute phone call would have been.

Whitwick, Hugglescote, Bardon, Ravenstone, Agar Nook, Donington le Heath, New Swannington, Greenhill and Snibston all come under this page. Ibstock, Markfield, Shepshed and Outwoods are all within a few miles and covered in their own right. If you are somewhere in that spread, it makes no practical difference to us which name you go by, so just ring.

Car remaps start from £129. Vans and commercial vehicles are quoted per vehicle, because a small car derived van and a large diesel panel van are not the same job. We will give you the figure for your vehicle before you commit to anything, and if we think a map is a poor use of your money on that particular car we will tell you that instead of taking the booking.