Many of these people are small individuals who bought a cheap cable off eBay, and maybe a disc of pre-tuned generic files and simply flash them to your car with little or no knowledge of engine tuning itself. We like to call these guys flash mappers as they usually just give a car a very quick look over for hardware faults or often not at all, with no data-logging prior to flashing a remap to the ECU or give the car chance to be run on a rolling road. We will explain a bit more about these types below. The final one being your Specialist Tuners who are those companies that specialise in a certain marque of car (in our example VAG, Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda) or certain era of management such as Bosch Motronic or those who have much more knowledge with standalone systems. Your average remap company such as those who are primarily focused on remapping cars and have a dyno installed at a unit. Those people who buy a laptop, cheap flashing cable and a set of files off the internet and become a Flash Mapper, generally your small individual in a small garage who aren’t primarily focused on tuning. There are 3 main types of people who can flash a remap onto your car. Are there really different types of remap? If you want the best performance after spending £000’s on modifications or want to tailor your car to suit a certain driving style, then we believe there is. This is actually a pretty broad question. This will be because the car has greater volume of power at all RPM points rather than a car with less power across the entire rev range, but has higher BHP at the redline. A good note to remember is higher bhp/torque isn’t always necessarily better, or mean you will have a faster car than somebody with 25bhp less. A remap will give higher peak power and torque (for those wanting to discuss their cars performance down the pub) and most importantly, and a crucial area to look at, is greater area under your torque and power curves, which will give much more performance rather than focusing mainly on higher peak numbers. Now the boring bit is out the way about how stock ECU’s were intended to be setup, the main reasons for wanting to get a remap is the additional performance offered by means of altering fuel, boost, and ignition timing maps inside the ECU to give optimal performance. This is because components are designed to cope with certain power levels so once performance is increased, some may experience shorter lifespans. Once we look for performance, many of the original manufacturer intentions can be thrown out the window such as emissions, fuel quality and length of component life.
2004 1.8T ECU FLASHING DRIVER
For these reasons, standard cars are set-up to meet all of these for your average driver who has no intention of gaining a few extra ponies out of their car. When cars are produced by the manufacturers, there are whole host of different criteria that they have to meet, such as emissions, drive ability, quality of fuel used for example 95RON and 99RON, component longevity and safety. The Me7.5 ECU can again, be split into two main types this goes off the fuelling method to what the ECU has been designed for by Bosch. The later models, from ~year 2001 onwards, came with Motronic 7.5 (Me7.5). This is a easy way to tell whether you have older or newer style management.
The early models, such as the AGU/AEB came with a Motronic 3.8.3 (M3.8.3) ECU which is used in conjunction with a cable throttle body. The 1.8T engine is fitted with two main types of ECU’s that are manufactured from Bosch. It offers a more in-depth explanation from our Tuning Basics Introduction The purpose of this page is to give our readers a insight into a 1.8T remap, what it is, a brief analysis of how it works and the different types of remaps that are available.