Had a chat with TurboChip this afternoon...  Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
Clan Cameron

TwoRonnies wrote:

Bungee,

Do you know if Turbochip can chip my SC?

I couldnt find any dets on their website?

Thanks

I believe another sponsor Torq Tune do a SC tune, speak to 10forcash on the D3 site.

As far as telling one is chipped, surely driving it is easiest

After chipping (ie. modding the engine), I assume one should notify their insurance company too? For those that have, does this cause a substantial premium increase??? Most of us are reptiles... only the enlightened few become human beings.

I asked mine and they said 'No'

I'm insured with LR and told them that my dealer chipped the car before I bought it! (which is the truth).
It made no difference to the premium. As I said earlier though, the dealer also assured me there is no way to tell it's been chipped anyway! Not sure about this so I decided to tell LR Insurance just to be safe.

As for the fuel consumption - As far as I can see it makes no difference one way or t'other but it does make a big performance differnce to the V6. 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
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TwoRonnies wrote:

I asked mine and they said 'No'

I had my car chipped by Turbochip around a month ago ,performance wise it is much bettere ,fuel wise slightly worse .

hi pedro pete how much worse is your fuel economy,or are you giving it the boot a bit more
most people seem to notice better economy after chipping
as for insurance i am saying nothing it went like that when i brought it
alicat how much were you quoted if you dont mind me asking

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Got a right good telling off from a Ford engine engineer recently about the subject of chipping. He told me that they have £7 million worth of hardware and software available to establish the optimum engine tune, so get truly off when some tuning company with £700 of hardware and software reckon they can find a better tune to play on these engines. Having said that, I think Ford are so worried about warranty claims etc that they set their engines up with substantial margin for error. All the tuning companies do is eat into that margin for error. The engineer in question admitted that the engine can take everything a tuning kit throws at it. He said the weak links were the transmission (if you boot a tuned engine at the wrong time in the wrong place the transmission is going to be tested to the extreme) and the turbo. The turbo is particularly vulnerable as in a tuned engine it is spinning longer and faster and so it wears out quicker (especially if the oil isn't top spec & top quality).

But I say "sod that", tuned engines feel, go & sound better without any greater fuel thirst. So get it tuned, use it wisely and ENJOY ! RRS TDv8 HSE Rimini
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Smarticus,

Some good info there

I think you forgot to mention the marketing strategy of ALL car manufacturers who always want us to 'trade up' to the most powerful and more expensive model!!

I should think the marketing budget is a tad more than 7 million....or am I just a cynic

Smarticus wrote:

But I say "sod that", tuned engines feel, go & sound better without any greater fuel thirst. So get it tuned, use it wisely and ENJOY !

Use it wisely???

I thought the whole point of tuning was to thrape it??!!!  Most of us are reptiles... only the enlightened few become human beings.

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