What are you talking about, UM was the one of the first to offer dsg tuning, many many years ago, they are more than proven in the vdub community and most who have jumped around with tuners would say that their dsg tune is the standard that every other dsg tune is measured by. The fact you know a guy with a big turbo who’s blown his trans twice means nothing, what exactly was he doing, leaving at 20+psi multiple times on slicks dead hooking on a prepped surface? Race fuel? Race tune? Does he have the adjustable cable? Did UM’s tuning blow his trans or did he make aggressive adjustments to launch boost, rpm, whatever trying to run whatever halo number he was going for? Yep he’s going to find the weak link, shocker, doubling the power and only changing clutch packs wasn’t enough.
I’m running their big turbo dsg tune on a bone stock dsg trans and have had zero issues, probably not launching as much as your friend and on street tires, but it leaves hard at its most aggressive launch at 4500 rpm and 11-12 psi and nothing’s broken yet, that’s besides all the launches when it was “just” stage 2, if you’re not a fan of UM that’s fine, but to state that their dsg tune isn’t ready for prime time because you know a guy who’s obviously really pushing his r and zero information shared on exactly how hard is laughable, there are plenty of satisfied UM customers, and why wouldn’t he have built/changed out the trans after he broke the first one, especially running a badass iroz turbo kit, why wouldn’t you want the full hit?
X2 I wasn't going to continue the debate, so I let it go.. I guess the tune APR stole from UM is better. Jeff is constantly making adjustments, releasing updates and making his DSG tune better and better. I doubt other tuners are working on their TCU software nearly as much.