APR ECU Upgrade MK6 Golf - Customer perspective

[AdamD]

It was a Continental GT and she said it made a thundery noise as it flew by

650Nm of twin turbo W12 will do that.

Speaking of interesting, the Conti is actually a rebodied VW Phaeton according to Wikipedia.

[Dan_3MPS]

So I went looking for Harding Performance today based on the website address...got me stuffed where it is and I live in the next suburb

Anyone got any tips on how to find it?

[bugsalanko]

It's down the back of the driveway with a white wooden fence- should have a little sign on it for HP. But know what you mean, when I got mine flashed had to call Guy to make sure I was in the right place.

So I went looking for Harding Performance today based on the website address...got me stuffed where it is and I live in the next suburb

Anyone got any tips on how to find it?

[Scratchyratface]

Hey Finance_Analyst, what sort of power improvement figures are you now looking at with the APR tune done?

[Dan_3MPS]

It's down the back of the driveway with a white wooden fence- should have a little sign on it for HP. But know what you mean, when I got mine flashed had to call Guy to make sure I was in the right place.

Thanks, your directions will come in useful next week when I take advantage of the Xmas special. After 300km I already want/need more grunt

[DanB]

HP is easy to find, just go to the address it has on the website, google it first and go to street view, you can see the sign on the fence and where the office is located. Had my Stg 1 tune done this month for my Mk6 GTI from HP, really happy with it, Harding Performance are great to deal with.

[Finance_Analyst]

Hey Finance_Analyst, what sort of power improvement figures are you now looking at with the APR tune done?

Hey mate. The extra torque is amazing - 2nd to 3rd gear is so much stronger and is where it is most apparent. APR say 402nm and 189kw and that extra torque makes all the difference. The improved fuel consumption is the icing on the cake

[Hhawker]

I managed to find the time to head to Quattro Motors last Friday to have the APR upgrade done on my GTI. Having just clocked over 12,000 km/s, and with APR's Christmas Sale, the time seemed just right.

The guys at Quattro were quick and gave me all the info necessary. The car was in at 8am and I was driving it out the doors at 11am.

When I first pulled out and gave the car a bit of juice it was clear that I had gained a bit more power, but not quite as much as I was expecting. Over the weekend I clocked up a couple of hundred km/s, and by the time Sunday afternoon came around.... I was grinning from ear to ear.

When moving from second to third, and third to forth, the extra pull is amazing. The car is definitely more fun to drive. The urge to take the car out for a drive is similar to the urge felt when the car was new.
On top of the extra power, the fact that the car now has reduced fuel consumption and addition programs is a nice little extra. When cruising down the FWY the reduced consumption is definitely evident.

An upgrade that I would definitely recommend. As has been send countless times in this thread, the car truly feels as it should have done when I bought it!

[Dan_3MPS]

Got mine done today at Harding Performance. Thanks to James for replying to my litany of emails beforehand and to him for his work today and showing me around. Good to meet and chat with Guy_H too!

I just got the Stage 1 and intake combo. noticed the extra torque straight away and the responsiveness is pretty good. I'm still getting used to the DSG so my throttle control is shabby at times while I figure out what it wants to do in D, but the tune helped here with driveability.

Overall I'm pretty happy and think it was money well spent. After tuning my previous car through a variety of methods, the last of which was me writing my own tunes and flashing them to the car, I was blown away by how good the APR setup is. The cruise control switching is genius.

Now I just need to lock my wallet away as I wasn't supposed to be modding the GTI...a smidge over 500km on the clock and it's started already

[Finance_Analyst]

Got mine done today at Harding Performance. Thanks to James for replying to my litany of emails beforehand and to him for his work today and showing me around. Good to meet and chat with Guy_H too!

I just got the Stage 1 and intake combo. noticed the extra torque straight away and the responsiveness is pretty good. I'm still getting used to the DSG so my throttle control is shabby at times while I figure out what it wants to do in D, but the tune helped here with driveability.

Overall I'm pretty happy and think it was money well spent. After tuning my previous car through a variety of methods, the last of which was me writing my own tunes and flashing them to the car, I was blown away by how good the APR setup is. The cruise control switching is genius.

Now I just need to lock my wallet away as I wasn't supposed to be modding the GTI...a smidge over 500km on the clock and it's started already

hahahha i held you 10 times as long. Got mine done at 5,000km and thought that was too soon!

Anyone here also got the APR exhaust/catback done? I am thinking about it purely to get a sweeter sound

[Guy_H]

We will be putting a full RSC on our new GTI in January when we gget back, you are welcome to check it out then (been busy, so its been sitting in a box).

[RosscoMK3]

Hi Guy( and guys/girls),
I recently aquired a 118tsi 2010 (manual) with sportspack, and have been doing a bit of research into the APR stage one ECU upgrade. I've still got some warranty left on the car and don't really want to do anything for a few months until it's been through it's paces.
Just in case....

I have a few questions you might be able to help me with.
1. Do you still need to physically chip the car or is it just a reflash?
2. Is it possible for me to check if the previous owner did this and performed a lockout before selling? He's hardly going to tell me if he did.
3. The APR dyno graph from the website. What am I looking at? Please excuse my ignorance in this area but I'm really not familiar with workshop diagnostics.
In regards to the APR dyno graph, would I be right in saying that the graph shows a peak output of 270nm while in stock tune and 317nm with the APR map? Is this at the engine or the wheels? ( Again excuse my ignorance but no gear listed and the high figures suggest the engine).

Thanks for your time.

[bugsalanko]

Hi Guy( and guys/girls),
I recently aquired a 118tsi 2010 (manual) with sportspack, and have been doing a bit of research into the APR stage one ECU upgrade. I've still got some warranty left on the car and don't really want to do anything for a few months until it's been through it's paces.
Just in case....

I have a few questions you might be able to help me with.
1. Do you still need to physically chip the car or is it just a reflash?
2. Is it possible for me to check if the previous owner did this and performed a lockout before selling? He's hardly going to tell me if he did.
3. The APR dyno graph from the website. What am I looking at? Please excuse my ignorance in this area but I'm really not familiar with workshop diagnostics.
In regards to the APR dyno graph, would I be right in saying that the graph shows a peak output of 270nm while in stock tune and 317nm with the APR map? Is this at the engine or the wheels? ( Again excuse my ignorance but no gear listed and the high figures suggest the engine).

Thanks for your time.

1. I havent heard of any of the 118's needing a physical chip has all been via cable.

2. No idea. But Guy_H on here would be the person to ask.

3. The graph shows the APR stage 1 tune Vs the stock tune and then on the bottom right hang side lists the improvements in torque and HP. And all the figures are at the flywheel I'm fairly certain. From memory on somebody who had dyno'd the figures ATW was around 107KW.

And in terms of checking anything in that warranty period, I would definently make sure that you don't have the supercharger clutch squeak occurring. It would be expensive to rectify outisde of the warranty period.

Hope that helps.

[RosscoMK3]

Thanks for that.
I'll wait for Guys response on #2 and will do a search on supercharger clutch squeak.
I've been giving it a good go lately and have to say I'm impressed for the money spent. I had the offer of a 1 year old MPS luxury edition for 2k more and walked after driving it. Too unrefined compared to the VW.

[Dan_3MPS]

If you gave Guy_H the VIN he would be able to tell you if it had already been flashed with an APR tune.