not heard of any reports to be honest.
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not heard of any reports to be honest.
its not really fair to say your turning it into something else. Nobody is pretending their car is something that its not. Its a car that can be tuned, and as long as there is an interest then people will still do it. Its an interest. If you can get more bhp for little money then why shouldn't somebody want ot do it.
Your really qustioning the whole tuning concept tbh. Besides, it not like theres a huge choice of 160bhp+ diesels with good insurance etc.
they do
Some detectives! lol
Didn't manage to spot Dieseldave or djruggy's tweaked ECU's!
Didn't manage to spot Dieseldave or djruggy's tweaked ECU's!
Maybe only look if it's something they think is caused by a remap?
i would like to think that IF the fault was due to the re-map then the garage would have phoned me up and said - we will not cover this cos you have changed the settings???
- No? - the garage said they had to get approval from FIAT to carry out the work cos it was alot of money to fix.
I was thinking about having mine re-mapped for over a year before i had it done. I thought long and hard about it and at the time had not heard of anything bad about it.
So back to my original question - did i have a faulty turbo from the start or did the remap ruin a perfectly normal turbo? - i suppose i will never know.
I just wanted people to know what happened to my car - so if they have the same car and thinking of a re-map they know what has happened out there to other people.
btw - thanks for everyone's comments on this!
- No? - the garage said they had to get approval from FIAT to carry out the work cos it was alot of money to fix.
I was thinking about having mine re-mapped for over a year before i had it done. I thought long and hard about it and at the time had not heard of anything bad about it.
So back to my original question - did i have a faulty turbo from the start or did the remap ruin a perfectly normal turbo? - i suppose i will never know.
I just wanted people to know what happened to my car - so if they have the same car and thinking of a re-map they know what has happened out there to other people.
btw - thanks for everyone's comments on this!
Some detectives! lol
Didn't manage to spot Dieseldave or djruggy's tweaked ECU's!
I spoted one easily on thursday & informed customer I couldn't carry out a update.
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You nasty man...how do you sleep at night!
Perhaps the blown turbo might be a clue!!!! hahaha
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You nasty man...how do you sleep at night!
Sleep great thanks,I gave customer the choice. I'm just doing my job,if I wanted to be nasty I would of wrote over the remap. Not my fault customer has excessive smoke when the 'boot it'.
What was it that confirmed it was remapped? As I don't think the exhaust fumes would give mine away? Can you tell through the electronics?
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I think you'll find Fiat limit it to 130bhp for emisions and insurance reasons. If it put out 150bhp it would be group 9-10. It would also make more people pick it over the Bravo 150 sport.
The dealer can't care less whether the fault is due to the re-map or a faulty turbo. The dealer needs the workshop occupied and wouldn't want to loose a client. He gets paid for it whether it is warranty work or not even if it will be at a lower rate.
from experience we know that turbos go because of poor mapping. But we will never be certain that this was the reason as sometimes components are faulty. However, a poor map would have damaged to turbo at a later time in any case.
Not strictly true mate, warranty is big business now (saves Fiat £££'s) & parts are often requested for inspection.If fault is found/not found or due to 'outside influence' then its rejected without question & dealer has to foot the whole bill. I have had to supply many parts recently & its becoming more common. These parts can be requested up to 3 months after repair date.
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ok just a quick note here people are saying a bad remap may have killed the turbo, an not disagreeing btw!
BUT
my car had a turbo fail at 21k with the prevous owner who did not have it chipped despite his dealer accusing him of tuning it via a remap(later proved by fiat the ecu was untouched) so it MIGHT not ne due to bad remaps might be faulty turbos being exposed by the remaps maybe?
anyways my input to the debate before i get told am talkng nonsense or how dare i suggest anything bad about fiat or why should i expect a budget car not to break etc etc!
BUT
my car had a turbo fail at 21k with the prevous owner who did not have it chipped despite his dealer accusing him of tuning it via a remap(later proved by fiat the ecu was untouched) so it MIGHT not ne due to bad remaps might be faulty turbos being exposed by the remaps maybe?
anyways my input to the debate before i get told am talkng nonsense or how dare i suggest anything bad about fiat or why should i expect a budget car not to break etc etc!
scotzman.....your opinions are welcome here just as everyones are.
You're quite right.
its not unknown on the forum for the turbo to go on a standard car. Equally the unreliability of certain turbo units can be accelerated by any map, good or bad.
Bad batch of turbos apparently.
Interesting, do we know what sort of time this batch went into circulation??
No I don't think we do.
Will we just assume it is only for one and the map for the other?
20% of audi a3's have faulty turbo's which is within an internal recall which use the same turbo's. how bad is that.
