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Originally Posted by ciderman4
Hi Damian,
Firstly, thanks for the info. - very useful. If celtic tuning can tick all the right boxes with regard to their remap, then I will be interested. However, as TT has said, we need to get some form of guarantee that there are going to be no nasty surprises. Also, I have some questions :-
- Have they previously carried out a remap on our vehicle ?
- Who are we actually dealing with here e.g. are they a limited company or business ?
- How does this remap affect our warranty ?
- What's the likelihood that when having a service, it will be reset to the original settings ?
thanks,
Steve
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Hi Steve,
Tony at Celtic sent me this a couple of days ago, prior to your request...
"Just for knowledge and whether you wish to post
this information is your choice as the information is always available upon
request is as follows:
Company Name: Celtic Tuning
Partners: Mr S Roberts & Mr G ****
Registered Address: 69 Tremear Green
St Columb Rd
St Columb
Cornwall
TR9 6RB
Head Office: Kells, Northern Ireland.
The reason why I send you this information is if you wish to have a group
buy then you will need this information to appease those whom appear
sceptical."
Hope this covers off your question regarding ownership.
Yes, they've remapped Civics before too. In fact, Tony says that they've only just mastered remapping the car via the OBD port, previously they had to crack open the ECU like everybody else.
Do remaps affect warranty. Yes, if it was a direct contributary factor in the claim. However, having spoken to my dealer, he's begrudgingly ok with me doing it because otherwise he'd make no money from warranty work in the future! I'm sure most dealers would feel the same way.
The chance of having the ECU reset during a service are very slim. Services aren't very technical jobs and some dealers don't even interrogate the ECU. If however you have any problems with your engine such as idling problems or cold start (like my Golf) then the dealer may choose to update the ECU with the latest version of the ROM. You may lose the remap under these circumstances. Superchips are happy to reprogramme the ECU under such circumstances, however I don't know what Celtic's line is on this. I'll find out.
Also, don't forget, they offer a 14 day money back guarantee.
Finally, some more info from Celtic...
"To answer your questions all of our maps have been developed on our dyno based in Kells Northern Ireland and will try and get our head office to dig out the dyno map. Either way we would more than willingly allow our maps to be put to the dyno test. We do know however, that dyno read outs can greatly vary depending upon the quality of equipment. We use the latest MAHA dyno setup in order to develop our software and would prefer that our test be carried out on the same for clarity.
There is no on click system developed for the Honda range note the reason why Superchips open the ecu. The one click system can prove to be very expensive and unreliable. In terms of the process until recently we were also required to open the ecu. This was the only way in order to make it undetectable and safely write information to the management system.
Limiters kicking in are an effect of torque targets being slightly miscalculated causing the ecu to think the engine is in jeopardy of being damaged and therefore goes into limp mode. This can occur even when we map these vehicles as we map the vehicle custom to the one we are dealing with. However, this is a very rare occurrence and will be resolved by the time our technicians leave the customer and will not occur again after this point.
Finally, we are not looking to further develop this range at present."
Nighty, night....
Damian 