ECU Remapping in Stoke Golding

That depends on the engine and on your mileage, and you will get a straight answer rather than a pitch. Turbocharged engines usually have genuine margin left in the factory software. Naturally aspirated ones have much less, and on a low mileage car the saving side of the argument barely exists. Tell us the exact engine and roughly what the week looks like and we will tell you which camp yours is in.

Sometimes, and it is better asked before the map is written than discovered afterwards. Adding torque without considering the transmission can leave a car hunting between gears or holding on longer than you would like. Plenty of automatics cope perfectly well as they are, and where that is the case we will say so instead of adding work you do not need.

There can be, though not the point most adverts make. On short journeys the useful change is how willing the engine feels low down, so you are asking less of it in stop start driving. What largely disappears is the fuel saving argument, because there are not enough miles for small savings to accumulate. If someone promises you economy gains on a three mile commute, be suspicious.

The workshop is on Rugby Road in Lutterworth, roughly twelve miles south east of Stoke Golding. That is an easy run, so there is reasonable flexibility about timing and we can often work around when the car is actually available. We come to the vehicle as standard, though you are welcome to bring it down to the workshop if that suits you better.

Both. Turbocharged petrols respond well and make up a fair share of the work we do. Naturally aspirated petrols have far less headroom in their software, and on some of them the honest recommendation is to keep your money. Give us the engine when you ring and we will put yours in one category or the other before you commit to anything.

Allow an hour and do not be surprised by ninety minutes. That includes reading and saving your original file, logging the engine on the road so we can see it under load, writing and loading the map, then logging again to confirm the result. Some vehicles take longer to read and write, and if yours is one of them you will be told at the booking stage.

Yes. It is a modification and should be declared in the same way as any other change to the car. Most insurers are perfectly relaxed about it once told. The only real risk is leaving it undeclared and having it come up during a claim, which turns a two minute phone call into a much more difficult conversation at the worst time.

Yes, and quickly. Your original calibration is copied off the ECU and kept before anything is altered, so the vehicle can be returned to precisely the condition it was in beforehand. People ask for that when selling, when a lease is ending, or when a dealer wants the car standard before discussing a warranty claim. Ask about it before the work if it matters to you.

No. Removing a particulate filter fails an MOT and leaves the vehicle unlawful to use on the road, and we will not write software that pretends a missing filter is still there. Blanking or emulating EGR and AdBlue gets the same answer. We diagnose those systems, clean them, run a forced regeneration where that is what is required, and repair them.

The make, model, year and engine, whether it is a manual or an automatic, where in Stoke Golding, Dadlington, Higham on the Hill or Wykin the car sits, and what you want it to do differently. Mention any warning lights and recent work, and flag a tired battery if you know about one, because a write needs steady voltage from start to finish.