I do understand & yes i did say that, but i clearly missed in your posts that you were using someone you'd known for many years & trusted. Had i known that then my take would have been different. I read it that you were getting a generic £300 remap on an £80k car & that in any car would at best be risky & at worst be suicide & not a path I & i imagine many would want to follow. My first paragraph you quoted implies the same (i think). If you're using a tried & trusted route that you know well then you're right that it's irrelevant how much it costs & if i was in the same position & knew of such a person i'd likely have gone that route but i opted for commercially tried & tested (known & trusted tuners for the marques concerned).Paulm wrote:if only that were true, and you right it should be the case that no-one cares what I or others do but more the results and gaining knowledge. I am not forcing anyone to following me. I am more than happy discussing my findings but defending my decision all the time, gets old quickly. I do what I do because I can, I love playing and I want to.
Wow lot of "I" in that paragraph lol
your quote from another post below, don't worry you are not the only one
Paul, i'd not criticise anyone for being shrewd & saving money & i'd in every area of purchasing avoid paying over the odds, however sticking a cheap generic remap on an £80k car is far from being shrewd. If you know someone who'll do you a custom Stage 2 tune on your C7 RS6 for £300 then i'd imagine many will want to know about it, however in this arena i'm afraid in the norm cost = quality, assurance, reputation & warranty so i'd be spending my money with the company that offers all of this, pretty much regardless of cost. Banging some low quality generic code onto a C7 RS6 is not a very smart move, however although you'll not have got a great product i doubt it would cause any lasting damage to the car.
As regards the remap on your GT-R, had it not already been mapped during earlier upgrades & as such you just received a revised file for the hybrid turbos so you're overall mapping costs would have been higher? Do you use Cobb or Ecutek?
As above, saving money is of course a good thing, but i'd be very careful where you apply that logic & firing a generic £300 map on a car as complex as the C7 RS6 would in my opinion not be a wise move given the cars complexities & variances. The GT-T in comparison (ECU wise) is nowhere near as complex & doesn't have the same variances.
I will be doing my own remap (well the guy who does my files will). I have been doing this for around 10 years on my own cars and friends etc (don't make money out of it as I don't need to) saved me a fortune considering I change my cars every 5 mins lol and had loads of fun into the bargain.
fingers crossed I will get it done tomorrow, hurt my back on Thursday and somehow managed to get man flu into the bargain. been a <beep> few days
I'm certainly very interested to here of your results.
) but just don't see the point I have a guy who does that for me.
