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Chip tuning?
- Thread starter Starfish
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GTI Jake
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
It's flash tuning, since mk7 can be tuned via obd2, chip would reference soldering a chip on the board of the ECU itself.
Anyway a flash tune (APR, UM, ED, Uni) are all great set it and forget it ways to make more power, but all will void your warranty
Jb4 is a piggyback tune, so not only can you install it or remove it yourself. It's also adjustable for mods, and doesn't leave any footprint to void your warranty. It's also 30-50% cheaper and reselling it is also an option.
With all of that said you should've done a search...still can, just google "mk7 forum_________ insert your topic there and you'll find tons of info
For the rest of your question, no. These cars are boring in stock form (imo) and for the price of tuning you'd be silly not to. It's a whole new car once tuned
Anyway a flash tune (APR, UM, ED, Uni) are all great set it and forget it ways to make more power, but all will void your warranty
Jb4 is a piggyback tune, so not only can you install it or remove it yourself. It's also adjustable for mods, and doesn't leave any footprint to void your warranty. It's also 30-50% cheaper and reselling it is also an option.
With all of that said you should've done a search...still can, just google "mk7 forum_________ insert your topic there and you'll find tons of info
For the rest of your question, no. These cars are boring in stock form (imo) and for the price of tuning you'd be silly not to. It's a whole new car once tuned
This should be a stickie.
GTI Jake
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Yeah, that would be nice since I basically told about five people the same exact thing today
rg2002
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- South Jersey USA
May void your powertrain warranty. Won't void non-powertrain warranty. I had substantial non-powertrain warrranty work (involving air bags) performed on a tuned 2000 Passat 1.8T that the dealer knew was tuned (actually it was chipped in those days).
But be prepared to lose powertrain warranty coverage.
But be prepared to lose powertrain warranty coverage.
Jovian
Drag Racing Champion
- Location
- Denver, CO
- Car(s)
- 2016 VW GTI
Here is something I wrote up a while ago on Tuning for the GTI but most of it applies to your Golf https://www.carworklog.com/2017/01/01/tuning-your-mk7-volkswagen-gti/
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MK4 and MK5 were not dealer equipment detectable.
I'm kind of new to having a "nice car" & still learning a lot about modding, what exactly (or generally) fallls under the power train warranty?
And, I know little about any of the OBD coders or whatever they are, is that what I would use to tune the ECU?
I also like the sound of the JB4 tune, is it simple to switch back to stock if I'm worried before bringing it into the shop for any reason?
Thanks a lot!
GTI Jake
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
A VW tech wrote this very well, so here's his words on warranty
http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7492
As for OBD2 all tunes are applied by their respective dealer unless they offer a dongle to load it yourself at home. Either way it just loads on your ECU and that's it. No changes are made by you the consumer to the tune, its one size fits all based on what "stage" it is. Generally, stage 1 is for an otherwise stock car. Stage 2 is optimized for and requires an aftermarket, higher flowing downpipe.
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GTI Jake
Autocross Champion
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
I took this info and made kind of a sticky to be on tuning. Hopefully one of the mods will do it if enough people suggest it. http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36223
I would but the sticky that is already there has a general modding link in it also that mentions just about everything you do but more in depth. Granted it is a little dated, but covers most of everything. The link posted in the sitcky is this http://www.golfmk7.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14506
rg2002
Passed Driver's Ed
- Location
- South Jersey USA
The service manager drove it (if I recall he may have taken it overnight) and I think he would have noticed it was no longer a 150 hp slug. But I understand your point.