APR ECU Upgrade MK6 Golf - Customer perspective

[Finance_Analyst]

Finance_Analyst, just saw you are in Toowong, that is where I live also, I also have a Candy white 5Dr GTI (not detroits unfortunately). Can I ask where you got your Tune done and the dials? Did you get a dealer to do you dials?

hi mate. I got mine done at Prestige and Performance as a mate with an S3 has lots of work done there and likes the service. Mike also did my dancing dials - the code is somewhere on this forum if you search. As an added bonus, APR just released the xmas sale today for the month of December so 15% off all ECU tunes - damn it I was one month too early!

Send me a PM and we can catch up to have a chat if you like over a beer and I can even show you my car for comparision.

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but with the APR upgrade, you actually SAVE fuel......

[txjseries8]

dunno how you are going back to a std car after the rush of boost to your head!

might have to play the "drive slow and see how much fuel i can save" game for the time being

[DanB]

Finance_Analyst, just saw you are in Toowong, that is where I live also, I also have a Candy white 5Dr GTI (not detroits unfortunately). Can I ask where you got your Tune done and the dials? Did you get a dealer to do you dials?

[Finance_Analyst]

dunno how you are going back to a std car after the rush of boost to your head!

[txjseries8]

thought i'd add my 2cents to this thread. Has been a week since I took my MY12 Golf GTI DSG to Quattro motors to have the 6 hr trial installed, they charged $45 upfront which is refundable when you actually decide to go ahead with it. Took awhile to notice the difference, i think mainly because it was 37 degrees that day. But after that, for the past week the car has been awesome, and it certainly does feel like a new car. Will definitely take it back to have it permanently installed, but might wait another week to see if there is going to be any Christmas sales like last year.

[Finance_Analyst]

always a hard one to negotiate with! but it will feel like a brand new car - you will be smitten

[Scratchyratface]

Yep I reckon í'll get it done in the new year, got to get it past my finance manager first

[Corey_R]

Can't go back to stock on the R. But when I had a GTI, I'd just go to the 95... why punish yourself by going back to stock

As for hiring a car... sif by a nice car then go out and hire a crap car

[Finance_Analyst]

i just go back to stock.

Or even better, hire a diesel car if I go out far away

[Corey_R]

95 Octane ain't that useless if you go out the major metro's and find yourself in need of gas and nowhere in a few hundred km's has 98

Now if I'm going out bush I need to plan ahead and investigate 98 availability as the R doesn't have any switching capability!

[Finance_Analyst]

Hey Finance_Analyst, where did you get your APR tune done in the end? How much was it?

Hey Scratchyratface

I got mine done at Mike Webber. It is all fixed at $1,495 as that is the price set by the distributor (Harding Performance). It doesn't matter where you go it is the price. Although now, you get 4 settings (2 are useless - 95 octine and 104 octine) plus anti theft (debatable if worthwhile) and the security lockout (perfect for turning back to stock prior to dealer looking at it) as APR adjusted with the stronger AUD.

I went with Mike cos a mate and lots of ppl here have dealt with him and like his work. I also got him to do my dancing dials at the same time, plus he is right next to the train station so it was easy dropping the car off and then going to work.

Get it - you won't regret it.

[Scratchyratface]

Hey Finance_Analyst, where did you get your APR tune done in the end? How much was it?

[Finance_Analyst]

yeah - especially if you drive it like you stole it all the time. All fuel economy is blown out the window.

But I am an accountant after all so all cost/benefit analysis must be performed

[VW Central]

i drove a stock mkv pirelli yesterday and that felt slow now compared with my apr powered mkvi!

Hells Yeah! APR FTW!!

The only flaw in your 'logic', is there's no viable economical reason to get an aftermarket ECU tune as opposed to leaving it stock.

[Finance_Analyst]

City driving figures are always the hardest to quantify, but we would normally expect to see a gain as you have.

Honestly, there are hundreds of interlocked tables that are modified - that's one advantage of using a tuner that can write / rewrite the entire ECU - where the others that can not access the full ECU get mixed results.

Glad it going well!

sure is Guy!

by your logic, i guess that is why you pay for the apr product as they have unlocked all the ecu and maximise the potential. who knows? the accountant in me says that the extra fuel saving may somewhat offset the cost in the flash tune so that is a good thing!

i drove a stock mkv pirelli yesterday and that felt slow now compared with my apr powered mkvi!