Im having some difficulty choosing what company to get my remap done with.
I've asked on the VXR forums, but because these sorts of threads always errupt into tuner wars with people defending their favoured tunrers (and quite often the tuners themselves post as well, which means anything negative gets argued with), getting inpartial and sensible answers is difficult. So im hoping OcUK can step in to provide some impartial advice.
So anyway here's the alternatives
Option 1) Thorney Motorsport
http://www.thorneymotorsport.co.uk/tuning/Vectra_VXR_Performance.shtml
Price is £400 for the remap and £75 for dyno time to customize the map to suit your particular engine.
Sold by thorney, its actually a superchips remap. Almost the same as the superchips one, but with a few tweaks requested by thorney. The product was a joint development.
They offer a 3 year warranty on their tune, and have a nice tie in with vauxhall, which means that if anything fails in your engine bay, either vauxhall pay or thorney pay, so you dont loose your manufacturers warranty as one of the two parties will pick up the bill.
Bad sides ? well its superchips which dont have the best of names. And recently somebody on the VXR forums had an issue with misfire whilst on the remap. Not present without it. They spent ages replacing parts etc.. till somebody from courtenay pointed out you need to check the gapping on the plugs ..
Option 2
Courtenay sport.
http://www.courtenaysport.co.uk/index.php?act=viewDoc&docId=87
A full £100 more expensive than thorney, and not actualy offering any extra power. In fact the cars with highest torque figures (420 lb +) have come from thorney. They only offer a 1 year warranty, and there is no set procedure in place for vauxhall to refer to if they receive one of their cars in for work. Unless you've got a very sympathetic dealer, expect to be told to get on yer bike.
But, they were the tuner that spotted the plug gapping issue straight away. so seem to be more knowledgable. But out of all the people on the forum that have remaps from thorney (most) nobody else had any issues so make of this what you will.
bottom line
1) better warranty, cheaper, potentially dubious knowledge about the product if it doesnt go as planned
2) not as good warranty, more expensive, but potentially better after sales. Same end result, possibly not as good as option 1.
Any idea how to choose ? because im damned if i can :S
I've asked on the VXR forums, but because these sorts of threads always errupt into tuner wars with people defending their favoured tunrers (and quite often the tuners themselves post as well, which means anything negative gets argued with), getting inpartial and sensible answers is difficult. So im hoping OcUK can step in to provide some impartial advice.
So anyway here's the alternatives
Option 1) Thorney Motorsport
http://www.thorneymotorsport.co.uk/tuning/Vectra_VXR_Performance.shtml
Price is £400 for the remap and £75 for dyno time to customize the map to suit your particular engine.
Sold by thorney, its actually a superchips remap. Almost the same as the superchips one, but with a few tweaks requested by thorney. The product was a joint development.
They offer a 3 year warranty on their tune, and have a nice tie in with vauxhall, which means that if anything fails in your engine bay, either vauxhall pay or thorney pay, so you dont loose your manufacturers warranty as one of the two parties will pick up the bill.
Bad sides ? well its superchips which dont have the best of names. And recently somebody on the VXR forums had an issue with misfire whilst on the remap. Not present without it. They spent ages replacing parts etc.. till somebody from courtenay pointed out you need to check the gapping on the plugs ..
Option 2
Courtenay sport.
http://www.courtenaysport.co.uk/index.php?act=viewDoc&docId=87
A full £100 more expensive than thorney, and not actualy offering any extra power. In fact the cars with highest torque figures (420 lb +) have come from thorney. They only offer a 1 year warranty, and there is no set procedure in place for vauxhall to refer to if they receive one of their cars in for work. Unless you've got a very sympathetic dealer, expect to be told to get on yer bike.
But, they were the tuner that spotted the plug gapping issue straight away. so seem to be more knowledgable. But out of all the people on the forum that have remaps from thorney (most) nobody else had any issues so make of this what you will.
bottom line
1) better warranty, cheaper, potentially dubious knowledge about the product if it doesnt go as planned
2) not as good warranty, more expensive, but potentially better after sales. Same end result, possibly not as good as option 1.
Any idea how to choose ? because im damned if i can :S
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