hi i have been looking around and come across 2 local companies DURHAMREMAPS and BLACKCODE both based in durham I think.. they seem quite a bit cheaper than most companies, what they have said they can do is same as the more expensive ones and both answered the questions which I was unsure on,..

is £250-300 a bit cheap for a remap?
And any one know of or used these?

still loving the freelander 2 owned about a month now

cjbullock wrote:

hi i have been looking around and come across 2 local companies DURHAMREMAPS and BLACKCODE both based in durham I think.. they seem quite a bit cheaper than most companies, what they have said they can do is same as the more expensive ones and both answered the questions which I was unsure on,..

is £250-300 a bit cheap for a remap?
And any one know of or used these?

I had one of those that you order online over phone for my audi A3 whilst it was good, I didnt like the fact that I wasent dealing with an actual person, I found with my last car golf gti, i got this done with revo and got it done at one of there garages, when car came to service they reverted it back for me and then just put it back on.. found by chatting with the mechanic, if anything was going wrong or I wanted the map to give me more fuel long trips or power he was able to do this far better than I would with my laptop.. if your going to the dealer then superchips I guess will be good... I'm gutted revo dont do one for landrover was top class service

Blackcode are a franchise, from what I heard head office is a little lock up in stoke that doubles up as a chipsaway type company, they dont have a rolling road so can't develope their own maps??

I've had vehicles done by superchips, it gave me great power increase but blew the gear box cos of too much torque, I have recently had vehicle done by Carbon Chip Tuning in Altrincham who are very knowledgeable and develop their own software and have great reviews on the internet (freeindex etc.)
Another firm who my pal has had a number of vehicles done by are www.optimap.co.uk who do a powermap and a economy map, they did 6 of his vans with great Mpg savings and his 535d which now has rediculas amounts of usable power they also do mobile mapping, he raves about them.

Junior, thats what i was thinking with blue code, I will give optimap a ring monday and see what they say.. if they do a mobile one.. i wont be able to get it on a rolling road how do they get around this problem or do they just skip this

They use a rolling road when they develop the software, using a research and developement vehicle, the rolling road is essential when developing the software file because its a trial and error type operation.
But once the software has been perfected it's just a case of mirroring the software on to the ecu of another car so basically the rolling road is just a gimmic when fitting the map, so you get a printout graph really.

I would say the drivability and quality of the software update is more important than a willy waving graph to show ya mates

Going to book in with them, they offer 3, power economy or bit of both which did you go for

POWER every time for me, but astonishingly if you drive sedately (changing up before 2000 rpms etc, you can still get better mpg than standard)