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Originally Posted by audijohn
Someone said that "superchips" were only now aware (since he mensioned it) of any signature being left, I can catergorically tell you this is total crap, they are very well aware of this and cater for it.  |
John, twas me that said that Superchips were only now aware, really as of April/May 2006. My Golf was spotted as being remapped by the Lister VW in Coventry (although I denied it) and was reset to standard as they attempted to sort out a long term cold start problem. They did warn me in advance that if it was remapped, then their work would overwrite the performance map.
So, "total crap" it aint, Johnny Boy! Scott, Dave & Mike (all of whom I've known for about 4 years now) at Superchips HQ in Buckingham were all quite surprised when they discovered that the dealer had reflashed the ECU. As you're probably aware, the fuelling maps are stored in a different part of the ECU to fault codes. As such they had always been presumed out of the line of sight of most workshops.
It would also seem that Superchips place a signature on their maps, so that they can recognise if A) Their map has "taken" to the ECU B) The map has been copied by another tuning house. When they interrogated the ECU on my Golf, it obviously wasn't their map and they reprogrammed it for me FOC.
The counter on the ECU did show the number of times the ECU had been accessed and reprogrammed via OBD-II. I'm presuming that since the issue with my Golf, they have found a way to reset the counter and cover their trail.
Blah, blah, blah.... Bored.
Anyway. For all of you guys that doubt Celtic's worth, I'm going to give them a go. If 5 others want to give them a go too, great, we can all save ourselves £50 on the remap. If you're not satisfied, you've got 14 days of buyers remorse/guarantee period to fall back on.
Moreover if you pay by credit card and you're not happy & Celtic don't sort you out, you can always claw back the money from the card company. (Unlikely, but a handy last resort).
Celtic seem to be a bunch of guys doing an honest job in an enthusiatic manner. I'm willing to give them a try.
If we don't try, we'll never know.
Damian