Not very happy with AMD Essex!

[S4Player]

193 is the limit of the stock gearing, can't comment on the b8. Will have different ratios being auto with more gears

[Ben @ AmD Essex]

I picked my car up on Saturday from Amd! They had it for a week. I have a de coke, gut the per cats and a remap!
Don't get me wrong they done a fantastic job! But the communication was not there! I didn't have one call, not even a call to say the car was ready! I rang in the week as I wanted to no what bhp it was running before any work was done, they said not sure off the top of my head about 370bhp! I rang on the Friday to see if my car was ready, yes it was ready but I still did not know what bhp it was running after I kept asking! When I picked the car up they still did not have a Deno print out for me! I have been emailing them this week they keep saying they are going to send it over and I am still waiting!

I asked them before they remapped it will they remove the speed limiter they said yes, all our maps remove the speed limiter! As I found out the speed limiter is still on there! Of course I found out when i hit the auto ban!
But to be fair they are saying they are going to send someone to upload another file to remove the limiter! But when is the question as not getting replays to emails!

Good Morning,

Firstly, sorry if you feel you have not received a very good service due to a communication breakdown, I am not sure why you didn't receive a call to say it was complete, this certainly isn't the norm but it was already arranged that you were coming back to collect your car on the Saturday?

Just to clarify, you have had 7 email replies sent to you this week. There may have been a delay in replying but please understand we can have anything up to 60 emails a day to reply to plus dealing with phone enquires and customers that are here with their cars. We do aim to reply to them as quickly as we can. I couldn't email you until mid afternoon Monday as I had been off for three days and had a huge back log of emails.

With reference to the speed limiter, yes this should have been done but as arranged Shaun is making the 2.5 hour drive over to you on Sunday to save you having to come back here. He will also bring your graph with him. Or if you would prefer, you can come to us we will do it here and cover your fuel costs? We will even dyno the car again, so you can see it on there.

Regards,

AmD

[sutts]

When AmD did my decoke, pre-cats, Milltek and remap I had excellent communication from them throughout the week. This included photographs of the valves and ports, emails and telephone call updates without me asking for them, extra rolling road runs that weren't charged for and finally a laminated print of the final run when I arrived to collect it.

Excellent friendly service all round and I will continue to go back there for other work (already done my clutch and flywheel actually).

[scaghead]

When AmD did my decoke, pre-cats, Milltek and remap I had excellent communication from them throughout the week. This included photographs of the valves and ports, emails and telephone call updates without me asking for them, extra rolling road runs that weren't charged for and finally a laminated print of the final run when I arrived to collect it.

Excellent friendly service all round and I will continue to go back there for other work (already done my clutch and flywheel actually).

Plus 1...I have just dropped mine down this morning,and there were another two b7s there as well...

[PJC]

Happy when mine went to AMD too, what you having done now Jason?

[The_Coat]

When AmD did my decoke, pre-cats, Milltek and remap I had excellent communication from them throughout the week. This included photographs of the valves and ports, emails and telephone call updates without me asking for them, extra rolling road runs that weren't charged for and finally a laminated print of the final run when I arrived to collect it.

Excellent friendly service all round and I will continue to go back there for other work (already done my clutch and flywheel actually).

Plus 1...I have just dropped mine down this morning,and there were another two b7s there as well...

What you getting done mate?

Sent you a PM the other day, not sure if you got it or not.

[scaghead]

Happy when mine went to AMD too, what you having done now Jason?

Alright fella I am having kw lowering springs fitted...may possibly make the meet on the 19th as ads manager is trying to re- arrange the game for an earlier date...so fingers crossed..

[scaghead]

When AmD did my decoke, pre-cats, Milltek and remap I had excellent communication from them throughout the week. This included photographs of the valves and ports, emails and telephone call updates without me asking for them, extra rolling road runs that weren't charged for and finally a laminated print of the final run when I arrived to collect it.

Excellent friendly service all round and I will continue to go back there for other work (already done my clutch and flywheel actually).

Plus 1...I have just dropped mine down this morning,and there were another two b7s there as well...

What you getting done mate?

Sent you a PM the other day, not sure if you got it or not.

Alright mate just checked my messages nothing in the inbox...

[ArthurPE]

You won't hit 180 at vmax, ill guess around 168/170. Unlimited car given enough space will hit 193 and then stop dead

no way will a b7 RS4 hit an honest 193
8000 is 184 (actually measured, GPS, 1k rpm = 23 mph) maybe less with slip at that speed
power peak is ~7600 so I'm estimating best is 175 max, hence the 174 limit on the B8, won't go much faster

[sonny]

I hope you get this sorted, every garage makes its mistakes. Its there ability to make it right that's important.

Most of us have used AMD and reported to have had a good service.

[PJC]

Totally agree Sonny

[HYFR]

You won't hit 180 at vmax, ill guess around 168/170. Unlimited car given enough space will hit 193 and then stop dead

no way will a b7 RS4 hit an honest 193
8000 is 184 (actually measured, GPS, 1k rpm = 23 mph) maybe less with slip at that speed
power peak is ~7600 so I'm estimating best is 175 max, hence the 174 limit on the B8, won't go much faster

Yep, my RS 5 Wouldn't do any more than 170

[PJC]

Happy when mine went to AMD too, what you having done now Jason?

Alright fella I am having kw lowering springs fitted...may possibly make the meet on the 19th as ads manager is trying to re- arrange the game for an earlier date...so fingers crossed..

Sweet, be good to see you pics too when it's all done.

[ArthurPE]

You won't hit 180 at vmax, ill guess around 168/170. Unlimited car given enough space will hit 193 and then stop dead

no way will a b7 RS4 hit an honest 193
8000 is 184 (actually measured, GPS, 1k rpm = 23 mph) maybe less with slip at that speed
power peak is ~7600 so I'm estimating best is 175 max, hence the 174 limit on the B8, won't go much faster

Yep, my RS 5 Wouldn't do any more than 170

my bet, low 170's at best
mine was pegged against the speed limiter at 7100 rpm in 6th, an actual 158 or so
if we extrapolate 7600/7100 x 160 ~ 170 or so

but dang, 170 is fast, 250 ft/sec!!!

using sport autos frontal area and Cd numbers and 330 HP at the wheels comes out to ~170 also

[S4Player]

My car was supercharged Arthur, it ran 193 on the limiter