Car tuning company

skiddlydiddly

You don't need a rolling road to map a car.There are plenty of well regarded mappers who travel all over the country(even to other countries) to live map cars for people on a real road.Ideally you would do most of it on a RR as then you are not having to drive the car like a mentalist ut its not essential.

I have sympathy for you OP, its hard finding a "specialist" who knows what they are talking about and can actually do the job they say they can for the money/timeframe quoted.I've had a few ridiculous bills myself.

What car is it btw?

gilbert_and_sullivan

You've got to be a bit canny to avoid dodgy tuners...and dodgy everything else these days, and oddly enugh the net can be a source of good advice and really bad recommendations all at the same time.

A good tip is to read boy racer and make specific forums, each one will have their preferred remap/tuner house out of who's back side the sun doth shine (and who generosity to the forum owner is full)...then make a note of these and avoid them like the plague, they'll stand out like a sore thumb because they'll be mentioned in every single thread (by the moderator) where performance is discussed.

Hammyman

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

You don't need a rolling road to map a car.

To be fair if it has had head work and performance cams, it does need to go on a rolling road.

Hammyman

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

A good tip is to read boy racer and make specific forums,

A good tip is to AVOID what is posted on boy racer forums. All they're interested in is who will give them a printout with the biggest number on regardless of how well the dyno is calibrated.

I know one old timer who did performance tuning near me who used to alter the dial for the boy racers because he was sick to death of them banging on "thats not right, it should do 120BHP" If you did motorsport though, you got a completely different result.

Simulacraton

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

Two things stand out from your OP.

How did you find and who recommended this tuning company?

Why did you pay the company before they carried out the work that was agreed to an acceptable standard? payment should have been the last part of the transaction.

1. Specialist forums

2. They requested money up front to 'speed things up'

Simulacraton

advice_please wrote: »

£6k did you go fi or is it a na car and kept it that way?
What car is it?

It's an N/A car. Still is.

Simulacraton

Hammyman wrote: »

Bloke decides to spend silly money on tuning a car for god knows what reason.

Takes it to a !!!!! company

Gets ripped off.

Message to OP: There was no way there was anywhere near £6k of work. I've built performance engines. £6k gets you a full Stage 3, not just a camshaft job and a remapped ECU.

Contradictory message and irrelevant to my enquiry.

If you've built performance engines then you will know why, making your first paragraph contradictory to itself.

As for the cost, how do you know it was not £6k? Were you there? Did I say it was a camshaft job and an ECU? That was PART of the build but by no means all of it. You seen the quotation/receipts? I think you are someone who just wants to appear to know a thing about cars, but fails.

Stick to topic.

Simulacraton

artbaron wrote: »

Unfortunately I think you need to give them a chance to rectify their mistakes. Otherwise you'll have trouble winning any claim. The fact that they tried to remap an ECU without a rolling road shows they are either imbeciles or cowboys, or both, so I can understand why you didn't want to take the car back to them, but that's beside the point. I'd be interested in knowing what the mods were and what the car is - Renault by any chance? And who is the company? Also, what BHP increase were you expecting? What other mods did you have done apart from power and were these done satisfactorily?

I would have given them a chance, but then as (bad) luck would have it they then got burgled and lost all the equipment they needed to rectify the faults. I decided not to wait and get things done myself, and I was right to do so as even 6 months later they still had not been paid out via insurance.

It is a Renault. I can't name the company. And some of the work was satisfactory.

It included a new uprated cylinder head, camshafts, adjustable pulleys, specialist mechanical limited slip diff, some gearbox work, ITB's, standalone engine management, Grp N exhaust system, engine loom, oil cooler, catch tank, new tappets and various other sundries and consumables and engine mapping on a rolling road and power figures.

Simulacraton

skiddlydiddly wrote: »

You don't need a rolling road to map a car.There are plenty of well regarded mappers who travel all over the country(even to other countries) to live map cars for people on a real road.Ideally you would do most of it on a RR as then you are not having to drive the car like a mentalist ut its not essential.

I have sympathy for you OP, its hard finding a "specialist" who knows what they are talking about and can actually do the job they say they can for the money/timeframe quoted.I've had a few ridiculous bills myself.

What car is it btw?

You don't need an RR to do the mapping, no, but it helps for a variety of reasons. Not breaking the law on a public highway by running the car at high speeds being one of them.

Yes, I have since heard of several people in the same boat as me. It seems the tuning industry is rife with cowboys. In fact, I got off lightly it sounds like!

Simulacraton

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

You've got to be a bit canny to avoid dodgy tuners...and dodgy everything else these days, and oddly enugh the net can be a source of good advice and really bad recommendations all at the same time.

A good tip is to read boy racer and make specific forums, each one will have their preferred remap/tuner house out of who's back side the sun doth shine (and who generosity to the forum owner is full)...then make a note of these and avoid them like the plague, they'll stand out like a sore thumb because they'll be mentioned in every single thread (by the moderator) where performance is discussed.

+1

I usually do all my own work as I have had mechanics mess up countless times over the years, but for this had to use what I thought to be a reputable business.