Tuning Experiences

[zebedee]

Just wanting to share what happened yesterday, i've had the car running for some time on the map that was done when the engine and ecu were in a different car i knew it was safe but wanted to get it all checked and get a power figure for myself. As it's an F-con V pro there were not tuners local to me that could map it so i had to look further afield.

I chose TDI down at lakeside as i had heard good reports and they were HKS power writers and had a very professional workshop so when i was down that direction with work the other week i called in to meet them and book the car in explaning what ecu i was running and whet i need doing all was said to be ok and i booked it in for Thurdsday.

So Thursday came and i was up early for the 150mile drive down to TDI for 9.00 a.m. all was going well got down there in good time and they got the car fitted up to the dyno packs. Then the trouble started i was waiting in the waiting room when the tuner entered and asked what version the F-con was? I told him it was a version 3.0 and here dissapeared for a bit but was soon back. He then procedded to tell me that they cannot talk to the version 3 or 3.1 f-cons and could only talk to the version 3.2 or above! I asked why i was not told about this as all the ecu's have a serial number on and you can check this on the HKS USA web site to confirm which version i had. They didn't really have an answer for this so i decided to cut my losses and see if i could find another tuner when i got home so they took the car off the dyno pack and brought it outside.

When i got into the car to leave it would rev up for the first minute then after that when you accelerated it would only rev up to 2000rpm then back down to 1000rpm and keep going up and down. So now i was stuck i had a car that i couldn't drive and i was 150 miles away from home. Asked the guys at TDI what they could do and they said all they could is fit a new ECU at £1500 as they they could not talk to the current ecu. I asked if they had tried to do anything else to the ecu or car as it drove down fine before it entered the workshop and they said no.

After taking time to think and phoning a few other i know i called Simon down at Austec Racing, they couldn't be more helpful i had only spoke to them once before a long time ago but Simon sent his own recovery truck up to me recoved the car and got it back the there workshop by this time it was getting late but Luke got straight into looking at the car. Within minutes he was connected to the F-con and had figured out that it was getting no throttle signal. A bit more digging and he notice that something was not correct with the dip switches on the ECU. When TDI were trying to connect to the ECU they had moved these switches about, these control the self learing mode on the ECU for the throttled position sensor and it needed to re-learn the TPS. Once this was done Luke got on and mapped the car:

Thats 317 hp @ 1.5 bar on 97 octane pump fuel.

4E TD05 and a few other bits.

I can't thank and recomend the guys at Austec enough they all stopped late (was 7:30 when we left) and Simon was supposed to be at a family meal! Luke had finished work for the day but came back in to look at my car. They knew i was stuck but helped me out in every way they could and were great with the price too. By the looks of the workshop they can do everything you would want and are equpped to work on every make of car.

http://www.austec.co.uk/

Edited July 6, 2012 by zebedee

[Socks]

Hero shit that is!

Glad to see its been sorted. Just shows a big name and a tidy workshop dont mean shit!

Awesome news Zebadee, glad its running good and I bet she drives mint now!

[Starbuck]

Top lads. Fuck TDi and their unhelpful shit.

[ro55ifumi]

Sweet mate glad you got it all sorted.

See you Sunday

John

[grum-glanza]

great write up there glad to see there is still people in the mapping scene that have a heart to help someone out in a time of need

[Idrees]

Very disappointing service from TDI, I'd do whatever it took to make them pay for the recovery cost!

Sounds like awesome service from Austec though, hats off to them and very nice power figure. ;)

[Amjad]

Sound like decent people at Austec! Congrats that's a nice power figure

[Driver]

Decent figure, well done

The TDI thing doesn't surprise me in the slightest, a shit service saved by a previously good name. Unless your spending 10k+ with them they don't want to know.

Austec on the other hand sound awesome

[james@cjperformance]

What a bunch of idiots. like iddy said dude id chase them.for some recovery cost etc.

Wherr abouts are austec? Im so unsure avout where to take my car for mapping when its done

[zebedee]

Tanks for the words of support guys was close to giving in when i was at TDI.

Austec are Crawley naer Gatwick airport, i've always been a firm believer in choosing a tuner then running the ECU that they like to tune but as the engine and ECU came as a package i wanted to stick with this ECU which limited my tuning options. If i was starting from scratch i would have gone with a Hydra and had tractive map it as they are local to me and the Hydra looks like a great unit.

[Steve GT]

Poor poor service from tdi there but what heroes at Austen. Good quick thinking there on your behalf too mate

And congrats on the figure mate get all the info sent to socks and get it on his power leader board

[AdDaMan]

Cant belive TDI acted like that. Prob too used to mapping the same k20's on that shit software over and over and over and now cant do anything else.