Ever regretted tuning upgrade?

[BenT]

Hi all,
I’m considering getting a “stage 1” tune for my Polo GTI and Golf GTI Original from Underground Performance and I was just wondering if anyone has ever regretted getting a stage 1 tune or is it basically a no-brainer with no cons?


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[tigger73]

Ever regretted tuning upgrade?

Only ever regretted not doing it sooner [emoji13]


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[Mattlock]

Only ever regretted not doing it sooner [emoji13]


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^^This...^^
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[Lucas_R]

The only con as such is that it will empty your wallet of cash. Otherwise, its all pros.

[simon k]

had a sore neck for the first week or so??

I load my tune up for track days and then go back to standard for daily + daughter's L plate driving

[Scratchyratface]

No regrets, once you have it done you'll just say that the car should have had this power from factory

[Kachingg]

Indeed i can only agree with the above posters the car should come from the factory like this

I used underground performance for my tune and give them a


Mine is a diesel but i got 20% increase at the wheels and that's what you should expect if not a bit more with a petrol gti


Green line is stock
Blue line is the tune used
Tuning TDI Results



This is a 162tsi tig that was done just before my car pretty much the same motor you have in your car i think

So far i have 13,000km on the tune with no issues (apart from having to watch my speed very closely )

[h100vw]

had a sore neck for the first week or so??

I load my tune up for track days and then go back to standard for daily + daughter's L plate driving

My daughter learnt on stage 3, dont be soft!

[Bora Sport]

Gavin has done a stage 1 & 2 on my Polo GTI. I then got him to do a stage 1 and then stage 2 on my Golf R, so when I bought my Skoda Octavia Scout diesel guess who I went to for a stage 1 tune?

[feenix74]

We bought the Golf Mk5 TDI second hand from my brother, he had it Stage 1 tuned many years ago. I have regrets . . .

I regret not getting my wife to agree that it would be my daily before we bought it.

I regret letting my wife have a drive of it as soon as I had ferried it back to Canberra from Melbourne before I had her agree that it should be my daily.

I regret agreeing to let my wife have it as her daily and swap me the Caddy as my daily.

I regret not telling her up front to go easy on the tires (Bridgestone RE003 are a reasonably inexpensive performance tire but at $180 each still expensive when she drives it through roundabouts like it is on rails and that braking is optional).

I regret letting my wife share the Golf Mk5 with Daughter No. 1 after Son No. 2 blew up her car, as now Daughter No. 1 has certain expectations about how a car should handle and accelerate.

I regret not getting my wife to agree up front that for me to take the Caddy as my daily that I needed to have it Stage 1 tuned.

[brad]

I regret not getting a more focused tune rather than the generic one I got...


There was a guy on the Skoda FB group that got one on his diesel and it gave no end of trouble but it turned out the workshop had never done that model diesel and weren't that experienced on VW product - so maybe a bit more research needed and the workshop should have used him as a research project.

[VW Convert]

I regret not getting a more focused tune rather than the generic one I got...

Interesting comment Brad, always thought you were happy with your Bluefin, I was thinking about getting Bluefin myself. Strikes me that their tunes are quite conservative in terms of claimed power output although most reports I've seen are from people who are happy with the product. Are you saying you wish you had gone for a higher output tune?


Cheers

George

[tigger73]

Probably biggest regret is buying a car that fundamentally was limited in the output/performance that was achievable. Only way forwards was to sell and start again...

[Sunny43.5]

From what I have gleaned from motoring reports , the problem for Australians is that our fuel is not up to standards of overseas countries in terms of RON stated levels . So to prevent possible engine failures they are detuned to save customers from detonation .

[brad]

Interesting comment Brad, always thought you were happy with your Bluefin, I was thinking about getting Bluefin myself. Strikes me that their tunes are quite conservative in terms of claimed power output although most reports I've seen are from people who are happy with the product. Are you saying you wish you had gone for a higher output tune?

I'm not unhappy with the BlueFin. I think it was excellent value for ~$660 and the only tune with a user install/remove option at the time (which I've used once).

When I installed the Bluefin in Nov 2009 @ 31437km I thought I'd have the car until mid-2014 and then pass it on to my daughter. Things didn't quite work to plan (she delayed getting licence until 2017 and CBF getting a manual licence and by then we'd inherited my fathers automatic Honda which she uses).
Daughter #2 was next in line for the Octy this year but she's going slow too and also CBF getting a manual licence as well (WTF is wrong with kids these days?)

So here we are in 2018 having hit 190,000km last week and a little more power and torque in the last 9 years might have been nice.

Hindsight is 20:20