So excited..
- Thread starter Princey
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would like to say im suprised
but i'm not.
Hope you manage to find a satisfactory conclusion to it
Well 5 mins later after arriving at TMS they decide its the boost sensor having a fit so they replace that in 10 mintues and I'm off to work. Brilliant service.
As for the above comment, it wasn't £2000 more like £1700 as the rest was a service and believe me its not just marginally faster.
Soldato
Did they replace the Boost sensor FOC? Lets hope that's the end of the problems
Yes they did as its still in warrenty. TMS are a vauxhall approved tunner so warrenty isn't harmed.
Haha, more evidence on how much of a tool this guy is.
The guy who sits by me at work knows Thorney and has mentioned about how he changed into quite the business man.
Enjoy your mods but don't forget you are getting into the realms of limited returns. Save up more pennies for a better car in the future and not many more mods
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That isn't strictly true. Your Vauxhall warranty is now void.
What Thorney claim, is that they will provide a warranty on what they do, and even then, its dubious as to what they'll actually pay out for.
You can apparently have warranty work done at your local dealer and TMS will pay for it, but whether they do this in reality is another matter.
I honestly believe that Vauxhall only "work" with TMS to get their list of cars they've mapped, to stop people fraudulently claiming on their warranty on mapped cars.
I've been wanting to get my VXR mapped for a while, but I don't think I'd use TMS. Courtenay would be my first choice, but they are a long way away, Regal are just the other side of the Solent.
Soldato
So he's going to sell exhausts at a loss just to **** over Chris Tullet with whom he supposedly had a verbal pub agreement to have exclusivity?
lol.
Yes it's an Astra VXR, its a 2007 and purchased last october for £11k. I've spent £1700 in total, and the noise and power increase have been worth every penny.
Soldato
I don't think the gearbox responds too well to stage2 does it?
After my friend sold his to his brother the gearbox was broke within a few days (he claims it was already broken) and i've heard a few stories like this.
Anyway he took it to Vauxhall who actually went on the forums and cross referenced his email with his account with user names and found out he had a stage 2 and refused to change the gearbox unless he handed over £1500.
After my friend sold his to his brother the gearbox was broke within a few days (he claims it was already broken) and i've heard a few stories like this.
Anyway he took it to Vauxhall who actually went on the forums and cross referenced his email with his account with user names and found out he had a stage 2 and refused to change the gearbox unless he handed over £1500.
I've also read many good things about Thorney.
It's often only the bad episodes you read about on the internet. For every one of those there will be plenty more happy customers who don't feel the need to plaster it over forums.
You'll always get the odd upset here and there. If the OP is happy with the service he's received and the work that was done, then good job done IMO.
Caporegime
he implied he would in a throwing the toys out of the pram style way
then actually never honoured this and never returnned to the site again. All whilst lecturing on "his word" and how it was "dishonourable to break somebodys word".
The irony
He is now
We'll wait and see if this actually fixes the problem. i know a thorney customer who was in and out of his dealers all week with them replacing stuff (they were a thorney performance centre so just billed the lot to vauxhall) despite the fault only being present when remapped. The misfire never went away and was only resolved with the help of employees from courtenay. They then had the nerve to claim they sorted it !
As i've just said, the mark of whether this will be "good service" will depends on whether that really was the fault, or if as usual they are blindly replacing parts in the hope of fixing it.
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I don't get the "OMG Money Spent on Mods!!1" comments 
It is £1700 spent on mods. Selling a car adding £1700 to what you get for it and buying another car probably wouldn't get you the same performance and if it did you then have the used car lottery of whether you bought a well looked after one or not.
I've spent about £800 on mods on my old Skoda and it is only about 25bhp up on stock. I bet Princey has me beat on a BHP/£ ratio.
I remember when we used to be interested in mods on here but it seems that there is no middle ground anymore. It either has to be a full on engine swap to be worthy of a mention or it has to be exactly as it rolled out of the factory. Fox's grilling over something that improved the feel of a gear change (IMO a performance mod all be it a small one) and an aesthetic improvement got him a shed load of stick. I don't post on here about anything I do to my car because if you do you are just setting yourself up for a load of stick and I know others feel the same about posting on here.
Come on people where is the love for anything non stock all of a sudden or even a bit of courtesy to other posters? I think we are risking this forum becoming nothing more than people asking about insurance and parking issues if this keeps up.
I'm off my soap box now...
It is £1700 spent on mods. Selling a car adding £1700 to what you get for it and buying another car probably wouldn't get you the same performance and if it did you then have the used car lottery of whether you bought a well looked after one or not.
I've spent about £800 on mods on my old Skoda and it is only about 25bhp up on stock. I bet Princey has me beat on a BHP/£ ratio.
I remember when we used to be interested in mods on here but it seems that there is no middle ground anymore. It either has to be a full on engine swap to be worthy of a mention or it has to be exactly as it rolled out of the factory. Fox's grilling over something that improved the feel of a gear change (IMO a performance mod all be it a small one) and an aesthetic improvement got him a shed load of stick. I don't post on here about anything I do to my car because if you do you are just setting yourself up for a load of stick and I know others feel the same about posting on here.
Come on people where is the love for anything non stock all of a sudden or even a bit of courtesy to other posters? I think we are risking this forum becoming nothing more than people asking about insurance and parking issues if this keeps up.
I'm off my soap box now...
Caporegime
I don't get the "OMG Money Spent on Mods!!1" comments
He's spent it on a vauxhall
THe chav of the hot hatch world. All power and no control
so its socially cool to hate it and look down on people spenidng money on it since they should be saving for a "better car" instead.
Thing is, if you want a hot hatch, you want a hot hatch. The golf GTI is an alternative, not a step up. Likewise with the Seat Leon Cupra R, Focus RS etc.. just different ways of producing a hot hatch.
But of course people think you shouldnt be allowed to stop at a hot hatch. You should want something bigger and more powerfull. And expensive to run of course.. but thats another argument
Associate
I had a stage 2 (TMS) Nurb once and a stage 2 corsaVXR once......great car's.....the vxronline forum use to be a great place too......
Associate
I used TMS and had no trouble with them at all. I thought they where great.
Soldato
I think the problem is (My Brother went through the whole TMS remap thing), is that they tend to oversell their products, which usually aren't that good..
For example, I think it's common knowledge that their remaps are just a superchip remap, they don't change 'enough' in the ECU to get around emissions issues, and hence misbehave more often then not..
I know, for example, the VXR Performance Centre (like Courteney) take your existing map, and send it off via E-Mail to get a more agressive map with changes to the emissions code to suit..
My Brother had his Zaf Mapped with a TMS remap, and wasn't happy, unreliable boost etc, he got a refund, and went to the VXR place, and it was much better. From the price they charge, they should (Courteney seem to do this according to Mr LOL in this thread) RR the car, then remap it just for your car.. ensuring max gains with consistency..