I've been running either Eurodyne Stage-1, Stage-2, or Stage-3 DSG tunes on my MK7 Golf-R since September 2017. Hearing the positive feedback on Ed at Equilibrium Tuning COBB based custom DSG tune I decided to give it a shot. If purchased with the $400 COBB DSG license the EQT tune is discounted to $75 ($100 normally).
**** FLASHING ****
COBB DSG flashing versus Eurodyne. COBB is significantly faster probably on the order of 200-300% faster....winner COBB.
COBB flashes over the Accessport which does not have a battery and does not need to be charged as it gets power directly from the OBDII port. Eurodyne requires a Windows PC and the Eurodyne Powertap flash tool...Since my Windows laptop battery is always dead I’ll give the win COBB. If Eurodyne created a Phone app to use with their flash tool it would be much more convenient but no such app exists.
**** DRIVE MODE ****
Drive mode is probably the most important part of any DSG tune and where people will spend most of their time in. Cut to the chase....Ed's custom DSG tune wins hands down over Eurodyne. The EQT tune has a much more progressive ramp up in the shift point RPM relative to the throttle input and speed. With Eurodyne I had to give it much more throttle under normal city driving to get it to shift at a decent 2,500-3000 rpm. With the EQT tune you don’t need to give it very much throttle to shift at higher rpm. Additionally since I live on a steep hill I find the EQT tune to not shift to a higher gear pre-maturely as my Eurodyne did. On the same hill I would routinely have to change to Sport-mode to keep it for shifting.
I find the EQT to behave much closer to how I would shift a car if the car was a real manual car and has a more natural driving experience. It also stays in 5th gear much longer before shifting into 6th than the Eurodyne does. It also will downshift much sooner with less throttle input than the Eurodyne would as well which is really nice.
Due to all of this with the EQT tune I never find myself reaching for the Sport-mode while driving around town. Whereas with the Eurodyne tune I would sometimes pop it into Sport to get the car to rev higher and not to upshift so soon.
**** SPORT MODE ****
The Eurodyne Sport-mode more or less behaves how the factory Sport-mode does. Yes, it shifts are a bit quicker and there is more clamping force but that is true for almost all aftermarket DSG tunes.
By contrast the EQT tune is MUCH more aggressive. It will stay in the 3-4k rpm range much longer even with small throttle inputs. With Eurodyne and stock you can drive around town in Sport-mode pretty normally. Yes it will rev a bit higher and downshift quicker but I didn’t have any problems running around the neighborhood with it. With the EQT I find it actually too aggressive just driving around town, it begs to be driven much harder. But since Drive-mode is much improved I don’t need to use it around town anymore so I don’t think that this is actually a bad thing but I can see personal preference playing in on this. I have not taken the EQT tune to the mountains yet but I have no reason to think at the moment that it would be worst than the Eurodyne tune and most likely better, but time will tell on that point.
**** VENDOR SUPPORT ****
I’ve opened tickets for various reason with both Eurodyne and COBB. In general, I feel COBB is a bit more responsive and more helpful. Eurodyne is not bad by any means but COBB is noticeable better.
**** TUNER SUPPORT ****
It is widely known that you can’t get much of Chris Tapp’s (Eurodyne) time so I’ll leave that alone. Ed @ EQT is very responsive and incredibly helpful. I can tell with working with him he is heavily invested in his company and their reputation.
**** FLASHING ****
COBB DSG flashing versus Eurodyne. COBB is significantly faster probably on the order of 200-300% faster....winner COBB.
COBB flashes over the Accessport which does not have a battery and does not need to be charged as it gets power directly from the OBDII port. Eurodyne requires a Windows PC and the Eurodyne Powertap flash tool...Since my Windows laptop battery is always dead I’ll give the win COBB. If Eurodyne created a Phone app to use with their flash tool it would be much more convenient but no such app exists.
**** DRIVE MODE ****
Drive mode is probably the most important part of any DSG tune and where people will spend most of their time in. Cut to the chase....Ed's custom DSG tune wins hands down over Eurodyne. The EQT tune has a much more progressive ramp up in the shift point RPM relative to the throttle input and speed. With Eurodyne I had to give it much more throttle under normal city driving to get it to shift at a decent 2,500-3000 rpm. With the EQT tune you don’t need to give it very much throttle to shift at higher rpm. Additionally since I live on a steep hill I find the EQT tune to not shift to a higher gear pre-maturely as my Eurodyne did. On the same hill I would routinely have to change to Sport-mode to keep it for shifting.
I find the EQT to behave much closer to how I would shift a car if the car was a real manual car and has a more natural driving experience. It also stays in 5th gear much longer before shifting into 6th than the Eurodyne does. It also will downshift much sooner with less throttle input than the Eurodyne would as well which is really nice.
Due to all of this with the EQT tune I never find myself reaching for the Sport-mode while driving around town. Whereas with the Eurodyne tune I would sometimes pop it into Sport to get the car to rev higher and not to upshift so soon.
**** SPORT MODE ****
The Eurodyne Sport-mode more or less behaves how the factory Sport-mode does. Yes, it shifts are a bit quicker and there is more clamping force but that is true for almost all aftermarket DSG tunes.
By contrast the EQT tune is MUCH more aggressive. It will stay in the 3-4k rpm range much longer even with small throttle inputs. With Eurodyne and stock you can drive around town in Sport-mode pretty normally. Yes it will rev a bit higher and downshift quicker but I didn’t have any problems running around the neighborhood with it. With the EQT I find it actually too aggressive just driving around town, it begs to be driven much harder. But since Drive-mode is much improved I don’t need to use it around town anymore so I don’t think that this is actually a bad thing but I can see personal preference playing in on this. I have not taken the EQT tune to the mountains yet but I have no reason to think at the moment that it would be worst than the Eurodyne tune and most likely better, but time will tell on that point.
**** VENDOR SUPPORT ****
I’ve opened tickets for various reason with both Eurodyne and COBB. In general, I feel COBB is a bit more responsive and more helpful. Eurodyne is not bad by any means but COBB is noticeable better.
**** TUNER SUPPORT ****
It is widely known that you can’t get much of Chris Tapp’s (Eurodyne) time so I’ll leave that alone. Ed @ EQT is very responsive and incredibly helpful. I can tell with working with him he is heavily invested in his company and their reputation.
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. Since I got normal drive mode dialed in to my liking, I made sport mode more like what I would want on track or back roads. Its not something I ever use during regular driving, as there is really no need. And to be honest, when I drive the car on track or backroads, I'm usually in manual mode. However, I did go ahead and dial in sport so that it would behave as closely as possible to how I would drive the car in manual mode in those conditions. I'll have to see what more people think of it and if I need to revise it to make it a bit less aggressive. But so far I think we're OK.