Remapping on PCP

ExoMale said:
dont buy a car if you not happy with the performance, going from a 200hp light fiesta hatch to a heavy 2ltr coupe was never going to be a huge impact really just because its a well handling rwd car.

admittingly my first finance car when i was 20 i did alter, but aftermarket audio system, cone filter, 17" alloys within the first couple years of a 4yr contract, but i managed to pay off the car before the end so was no problem.
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This ^^
 
As a drugs forensic scientist PCP means something completely different to me, so now I'm all disappointed by this thread...
 
There's a chap on YouTube (dandanfings) that's got 335d on lease. He's had it remapped and changed the springs. I think they even had to break the ECU open to flash it. What's going to happen when it's time to give it back?
 
neocon said:
There's a chap on YouTube (dandanfings) that's got 335d on lease. He's had it remapped and changed the springs. I think they even had to break the ECU open to flash it. What's going to happen when it's time to give it back?
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If he puts the springs back on I doubt they’d notice - I would imagine issues arise when something mechanical goes wrong.

Either a new owner very surprised by its performance or a fat bill for dandanfings!
 
Scania said:
If he puts the springs back on I doubt they’d notice - I would imagine issues arise when something mechanical goes wrong.

Either a new owner very surprised by its performance or a fat bill for dandanfings!
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It's really the poor 2nd buyer isn't it.

The remapped 420i will mostly end up at a car supermarket once it's 2/3 year lease is up. No one's going to check if it's been mapped, and it might not be until there's a mechanical issues that the 2nd owner finds out. Then it'll be long or of warranty.
 
But it's just as likely to go wrong while you have it. In fact most manufacturing faults with engines present themselves in the first few years.
 
Nasher said:
But it's just as likely to go wrong while you have it. In fact most manufacturing faults with engines present themselves in the first few years.
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This is true, I remember my old mans e39 528i developed a cam rattle before its first service, it was fixed under warranty and then didn’t miss a beat until I sold it on north of 263k miles.
 
Scania said:
If he puts the springs back on I doubt they’d notice - I would imagine issues arise when something mechanical goes wrong.
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so will the servicing requirements under the finance/pcp company not result in the car being hooked-up, showing up flashing/re-map ?

Nasher said:
In fact most manufacturing faults with engines present themselves in the first few years.
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the infamous bathtub curve
 
jpaul said:
so will the servicing requirements under the finance/pcp company not result in the car being hooked-up, showing up flashing/re-map?
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You’d expect it to flag up during its servicing I’d have thought, but,the specific point I was replying to was about what happens when it’s handed back, in that case I very much doubt it’ll get a service prior to disposal therefore the next owner will be the unwitting owner of a remapped car.
 
might aswell just go back to the company and see if you could replace it with a more suitable car, but on same deal to carry it on.
 
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