Any tuners in here? Autotuner question

[GVK]

Took car (VW Scirocco 2.0 TDI) over to Newark today to get swirl flaps mapped out, keep getting faults and EML on with them, and the proper fix is a new inlet manifold at about £700 - nope! Sadly after about 20 mins of car being in workshop he came in and said can't communicate with car with his AutoTuner flash tool , normal scan tool will communicate and check codes (I've never had issues with scan tools and I have a few) as he had other customers and appointments this afternoon he couldn't continue. Advised checking the OBD port for backed out pins which I've done now back home. Can't see any issues with the port. So a bit stuck.

[ManicMunky]

Cheap Chinesium tuning tool, perhaps?

[Dr G]

The only tuner I know who deals with those sorts of things is based on the south coast and covers up to West London/Home Counties sort of an area. He does however use Quantum Tuning software, possibly worth dropping them an email to see if they've an agent nearer to you?

[GVK]

He used Autotuner which is widely used in the industry, https://www.autotuner.com/collections/all

Dr G funny you should say that , was speaking to a pal and he told me of a local guy in South Lincs. that's an agent for Quantum tuning and passed his number on, was exchanging Whatsapp messages with him the other night and his advice was to pull the ECU and bench flash rather than OBD and was suggestion that the ECU maybe locked from a previews remap. So going to see him next Thursday.

Edited by GVK on Friday 22 May 16:34

[GVK]

Took car to a local guy Glenside motor company (15 mins away) to get the swirl flaps and map done, did it via OBD with CMD Flash, didn't need to remove the ECU to bench it which is a bonus. The guy said it's just a case of using the correct tool for the job.

Edited by GVK on Thursday 28th May 11:53

[ManicMunky]

GVK said:

Took car to a local guy Glenside motor company (15 mins away) to get the swirl flaps and map done, did it via OBD with CMD Flash, didn't need to remove the ECU to bench it which is a bonus. The guy said it's just a case of using the correct tool for the job.

Edited by GVK on Thursday 28th May 11:53

See my previous comment!

[GVK]

I wouldn't call about £4000 'cheap' chinesium

I think he said he has 3 different flash tools and some are used rather than others in certain situations , especially when previous remaps are involved.

In my case a virtual read had been previously been carried out, which in the guys analogy said it's like reading a book, but only selected paragraphs :lol:

Edited by GVK on Thursday 28th May 23:47