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busta

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262 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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www.carref.co.uk

Has anyone else stumbled across this site when looking for tuning options for their car? It claims to provide 'basic tuning tips for every car ever made', but delivers the 'tips' for every car in exactly the same computer generated format:

carref.co.uk said:
(insert car name) tuning guide, we take a look at the latest and greatest tuning mods for the (insert car name). and report on the best trends and latest power tuning mods. When tuning your (insert car name) it is important that you get it right so follow our (insert car name) tuning overview and see which the best modifications are.

Our database (at the time of writing, please advise us if wrong), shows that the most powerful (insert car name) would be the (insert car name) with power of upto XXXbhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the (insert car name)..

With the right modifications there is no reason why you can’t see power approaching XXXbhp
This throws up some wonderful anomalies.

For example, the 'tuning guide' for my diesel car starts off by saying the petrol engined model produced more power, therefore there's lots of potential for my diesel car...

busta

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4,504 posts

262 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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Valuable tuning tips for all A6 1.9TDI owners:

When tuning your A6 it is important that you get it right so follow our A6 tuning overview and see which the best modifications are.

The lucky ones own what we currently show as the most powerful car in the range, the A6 RS6 quattro Plus Tip having a power figure in the order of 473bhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the A6 1.9 TDI SE Sport 130ps .

If you do the right mods then Carref cannot see any reason why you can’t push your power figure to between 520.3bhp to 709.5bhp


MondeoMan1981

2,457 posts

212 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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busta said:
Valuable tuning tips for all A6 1.9TDI owners:

When tuning your A6 it is important that you get it right so follow our A6 tuning overview and see which the best modifications are.

The lucky ones own what we currently show as the most powerful car in the range, the A6 RS6 quattro Plus Tip having a power figure in the order of 473bhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the A6 1.9 TDI SE Sport 130ps .

If you do the right mods then Carref cannot see any reason why you can’t push your power figure to between 520.3bhp to 709.5bhp
That doesnt make any sense at all. So because an RS6 has 473bhp you can get 520bhp> from a 1.9TDi..

RDM

1,860 posts

236 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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Comedy web site said "you can easily tune the Carrera 911 by fitting the engine from a GT2."
I assume there are other computer generated gems like "you can get 200mph plus from the Kia
Sedona by simply buying a Bugatti Veyron".

busta

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4,504 posts

262 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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MondeoMan1981 said:
busta said:
Valuable tuning tips for all A6 1.9TDI owners:

When tuning your A6 it is important that you get it right so follow our A6 tuning overview and see which the best modifications are.

The lucky ones own what we currently show as the most powerful car in the range, the A6 RS6 quattro Plus Tip having a power figure in the order of 473bhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the A6 1.9 TDI SE Sport 130ps .

If you do the right mods then Carref cannot see any reason why you can’t push your power figure to between 520.3bhp to 709.5bhp
That doesnt make any sense at all. So because an RS6 has 473bhp you can get 520bhp> from a 1.9TDi..
Ahem. 520.3bhp smile

McSam

6,753 posts

204 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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busta said:
Valuable tuning tips for all A6 1.9TDI owners:

When tuning your A6 it is important that you get it right so follow our A6 tuning overview and see which the best modifications are.

The lucky ones own what we currently show as the most powerful car in the range, the A6 RS6 quattro Plus Tip having a power figure in the order of 473bhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the A6 1.9 TDI SE Sport 130ps .

If you do the right mods then Carref cannot see any reason why you can’t push your power figure to between 520.3bhp to 709.5bhp
rofl

Surely not even the most mouth-breathing of utter rank morons would ever even consider it something worth looking at? I mean, where's the market?!

Tonberry

2,295 posts

221 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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Terrible site, stay away.

Every entry is practically the same. Wrong.

Kiltox

14,864 posts

187 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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WTF said:
Power tuning mods for the Nissan Micra 1.2 Activ Red Posted on November 17th, 2010, 9:04 am by

We have a comprehensive database of all the latest and greatest modifications to your car. Really hot tuning tips and advice.

Things obviously change over time and whilst we try to keep an accurate record we do get things wrong (let us know if we have), but when we wrote this article our database shows that the highest power Micra would be the Micra 1.6 Active Luxury with power of upto 108bhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the Micra 1.2 Activ Red.

If you focus on quality mods, like cams, headwork including porting and polishing and a remap along with PROPER breathing mods you could see a power figure of between 118.8bhp to 162bhp with mods ranging from a few subtle add ons to a full engine rebuild! Obviously the higher you go the more risk there is of reliability issues.
rofl

busta

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4,504 posts

262 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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TVR Tuscan owners take note:

carref.co.uk said:
The Tuscan come in various power levels right up to 440bhp as per the Tuscan Convertible If you apply a few tuning mods to this model of Tuscan you will see power gains from anywhere between 484bhp to 616bhp. Any more than this and you will start to see unreliability appearing.

The forced induction Tuscan 4.0 Speed Sixs are a tuners dream. If you have a turbo or supercharger get the intercooler uprated for even more power. The Tuscan has a healthy 361 bhp. On a turbo engine you can further increase the power from anywhere between 469.3 bhp to 685.9bhp with mods we have outlined above.) High on your list of mods for your Tuscan 4.0 Speed Six should be handling improvements. To avoid other problems you should lower the car no more than 36mm.
I see....

carmonk

7,910 posts

216 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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Apparently a 'full engine rebuild' will almost double the power of any car, but beware, because 'obviously' the more power a car has the more unreliable it is. You learn something new every day, even if it's ste.

Beyond Rational

3,544 posts

244 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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"We look at the latest Renault Sport Sport Spider2 Seat tuning parts and recommend the best mods. Read our complete Sport Sport Spider2 Seat tuning guide. We have a comprehensive database of all the latest and greatest modifications to your car.

The most powerful Sport would be the Sport 4.2 V8 Supercharged HSE with power of upto 385bhp depending on the year, so this goes to show the tuning potential of the Sport Sport Spider2 Seat."

rolleyes

McSam

6,753 posts

204 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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I quite like how the wording suggests you'll get power gains 'of' x amount, rather than 'to' x amount.. So you could actually gain an EXTRA 685bhp for that Tuscan, happy days wink

Also like ones where they use the top model to 'prove' the 'potential' of the base model..... when the two are the same because there's only one engine biggrin

Carfolio

1,124 posts

210 months

Sunday 17th April 2011
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It's basically a massive pile of auto-generated nonsense that exists only to get ranked in search engines. Then every single page links to http://www.torque cars.com/tuning/ (link intentionally broken to avoid giving them link juice) so that that site gets massive boost in rankings. Or that's what they hope. This sort of nonsense is so harmful to those of us providing decent info it makes me have a screaming fking fit. They need to be reported and shut down. Grr.