Its £500 not £5000. I chose the Astra as I prefer hot hatches over other cars and after test driving all others I believed the Astra was best. Simples.
So excited..
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you don't work for BT do you?
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£500 isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things, it will only fill the Astras tank with fuel 8 times and just about cover a set of tyres.
I say get it remapped else where and enjoy the car.
its definitely over boosting by the sound of it to me. my st when running race program on dreamscience map overboosts and goes into limp. only its a lot easier to rectify on the st, just switch off ignition, switch back on and away you go. So not nearly as much of a pain in the arse as yours. Just not a good map by the sound of it mate 
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Surely then you'll then need the removal and refitting of gearbox, gearbox rebuild, as well as fitting lsd to crownwheel.
Wouldn't have thought you'd get much change from 2.5k.
Depends if you like that sort of thing as well, depending on the type of diff, it may be really not nice on a daily drive.
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Yeah I guess MrLOL was right all along and I need a bespoke map. I'll call Cortaney tomorrow.
Well some advice I've been given is that the new MAF will take some time to settle down so will pop up some errors every now and then. So I'll clear it again and see how it goes.
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Princey, when i had a stage 2 TMS nurb, i had no problems. You may have small niggle that is being magnified by the map???
TW, nothing wrong with the astra, i had one, now got a a4 quattro, the astra vxr is far far more fun! I'd have one again tomorrow.
TW, nothing wrong with the astra, i had one, now got a a4 quattro, the astra vxr is far far more fun! I'd have one again tomorrow.
No?
i knew i guy in brum with a vxr and he used to use a similar expression.
Sounds like an excuse to not give you your money back
After this much trouble I'd be doing whatever possible to get this map off and my money back.
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First I've heard of a MAF needing to 'settle down' thats for sure...ime MAFs are either working or broken and when I clean mine and do an ECU reset its purely the ECU that needs to relearn not the MAF. As above, I think they are pulling the wool over your eyes...its overboosting and since it didn't do it before and their map has upped the boost level...that's whats causing the limp mode. It must be spiking under WOT.
I know what garages and tuners can be like but seriously don't let them keep fobbing you off...
I know what garages and tuners can be like but seriously don't let them keep fobbing you off...
Well I had a phone call from John Thorney himself after seeing my post on VXR online. I'll see what he has to say when I call him back later today.
Yeah they can use a Tech2 I believe.
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If its overboosting their software surely isnt opening the wastegate correctly?
That will put it in limp home for sure.
That will put it in limp home for sure.
I was just thinking in terms of finding out the peaks and talking to a company that knows what they're doing
Well its going in to a different TMS performance centre, one closer and they'll be sending the top bloke up to have a look.