APR ECU Upgrade MK6 Golf - Customer perspective

[elisiX]

All good mate. I can totally appreciate where the apprehension comes from.

[Brian]

Mate i've known of APR and various other tuning for VW/AUDI vehicles for years. There must be literally thousands of vehicles in Australia alone that have had this done. Not once have I read of any serious issues or warranty rejections on the various forums in our relatively small community. And believe me, if there were to be any issues, someone would have spoken up about it.

Thanks for that, Ive only had the car a couple of weeks and its my 1st VW so wasnt sure of what the go was. Will be looking into the chip as soon as everyone gets back from xmas / new year break
Brian

[GTI2708]

I am getting an APR chip done sooooonnn as i can.
Just need to save up for it.

[elisiX]

Mate i've known of APR and various other tuning for VW/AUDI vehicles for years. There must be literally thousands of vehicles in Australia alone that have had this done. Not once have I read of any serious issues or warranty rejections on the various forums in our relatively small community. And believe me, if there were to be any issues, someone would have spoken up about it.

[Brian]

I guess I'm scared about any drive train or ECU related claim being dismissed because I've put a chip in the thing, even though the increased performance may not be the cause of said failure. In the end, I guess you're right in saying leave it alone if it wories you. BTW the CC site doesn't mention any upgrades for the 118 TSI, or have I missed it?
Brian

[h100vw]

That would be immoral IMO.

I have complete faith in the software I sell, as does Guy with APR. It is most unlikely that aftermarket software is going to be the cause of a mechanical failure. DSG boxes seem to be getting better, so that's less of a worry.

Arguing the toss with VW might be harder, if they know the car is chipped but realistically if you are worried about that side of the equation, you should leave it well alone.

They can't refuse warranty jobs on unconnected items even if it is chipped. An aircon compressor won't die due to software changes.

It's a coin only you can flip.

Gavin

[Brian]

As a new Vdubber, with almost 3 years warranty left on the car I thought that being able to set the ECU back to stock for ANY visits to the dealer would be an advantage WRT warranty, or am I delusionary in thinking that VW wont know that Ive got an `XYZ' chip in the car?
Brian

[h100vw]

APR would have to be the leader in the market place, doesn't mean you have to buy it though and follow the crowd.

No one is going to blow your car up, so my advice is go to who you feel most comfortable with.

Trial the APR for free and you have something to compare the rest/who you pick with.

Plenty will say one is better than the other but there's a tiny number of people out there that have used different software on the same car.

APR has the features but I know I'd never set it back to stock, so I don't see it as a benefit and wouldn't pay extra to have it.

Your money at the end of the day.

Gavin

[GTI2708]

No, chip and drive. You might want a lightweight right shoe I suppose?

Gavin

Hahaha that might be a good idea.
Cool, someone told me they had to chaneg their air filter and exhaust to cope with the ecu...but then again....he had a holden s from the 90's.
Is there any real difference b/w revo and apr. Apr seems to be more popular of the two, but revo is marginly cheaper through a friend of mine.
Let me know.
Thanks

[h100vw]

Just out of interest...if i were to cjip my mk 6 gti, would i need to change anything to cope? i.e air filter or intakes?
cheers

No, chip and drive. You might want a lightweight right shoe I suppose?

Gavin

[GTI2708]

Just out of interest...if i were to cjip my mk 6 gti, would i need to change anything to cope? i.e air filter or intakes?
cheers

[GTom]

Guy, any idea on when stage 2 will be released?

Your results of 6.2 is awesome and makes the "whole hog" straight to stage 2 very tempting. Might have to take the ancient lucky band off my wallet and blow off the dust.

VW Racing UK have some bits for the 1.4, lightened and modified turbine wheel etc etc.

http://www.millteksport.com/vw.racing_vw.golf.gt.tsi.cfm

[POLARBEAR666]

Now we just need stage 2 + for the 1.4

Guy, any idea on when stage 2 will be released?

Your results of 6.2 is awesome and makes the "whole hog" straight to stage 2 very tempting. Might have to take the ancient lucky band off my wallet and blow off the dust.

[elisiX]

The Stage II sounds reasonable in the GTI but you think its going to be much better (takeoff) if you have the DSG Guy?

This has me really interested for my GTI which arrives in March/April.

[Ollie]

Does the APR Upgrade void VW manufacture warranty?