ECU Remapping in Flore

Yes. This page covers a long list of them, including Brockhall, Church Stowe, Dodford, Farthingstone, Harlestone, Harpole, Kislingbury, Little Brington, Lower Weedon, Muscott, Nether Heyford, Nobottle, Road Weedon and Stowehill. Daventry and Long Buckby are close by with pages of their own. In practice it makes no difference to us which name your postcode carries. Ring and tell us where the car is.

That is the best case for one. Under seven miles each way on a fixed daily schedule means any reduction in consumption repeats itself every week without you thinking about it, and settled running is exactly where the saving comes from. Tell us the weekly mileage when you ring and we will do the sum with you rather than leaving you to hope.

No. Nothing is turned down. The aim is to bring usable torque lower in the rev range so the engine achieves the same result at fewer revs and in a taller gear. Most people describe the car as easier to drive rather than slower, because the same journey needs fewer gear changes and less right foot to complete.

We drive out. Flore is about sixteen miles from the workshop in Lutterworth, which is a normal journey for us rather than an exception, and the whole job happens at the vehicle. Driveway, yard, verge or gateway, provided the car can sit with the engine able to run and there is somewhere safe to work at it.

Realistically, the battery. Writing to an ECU needs stable voltage for the whole process, and a battery that starts the car without complaint can still sag partway through a write. That is the most common reason a visit has to be stopped. If the battery is old or the car has been standing for a while, say so when you book and we will come prepared for it.

Not on its own. A filter that keeps loading has a cause, and until that cause is found you are resetting a clock rather than fixing anything. Finding out what is loading it, cleaning the filter and running a forced regeneration is the real work. Once that has been done, a well written map can reduce how much soot the engine makes to begin with, which comes afterwards.

No, and we would not write software pretending a missing one is still fitted. Removal is an MOT failure and makes the vehicle unlawful to use on the road. EGR and AdBlue are the same: we diagnose and repair them rather than blanking or emulating anything. If that is what you are looking for, we are not the right people and would rather say so on the phone.

Usually about an hour to ninety minutes. That covers reading and saving the original file, logging the engine on the road, writing and loading the map, and logging again afterwards to confirm the change did what it was meant to do. Some control units take noticeably longer to read and write, and we will tell you if yours is one of them.

Yes. It is read off the ECU and saved before a single thing is written, so the car can go back to exactly the state it was in when we arrived. That matters when selling the vehicle, handing back a lease, or if a dealer wants it standard before discussing a warranty issue. It is a quick job and nobody minds being asked.

The make, model, year and engine size, which village the car is in, roughly how many miles a week you cover and how much of that is the commute rather than local trips. Mention any warning lights or recent work. That is usually enough for us to say whether a map is worth your money before anybody commits to a date.