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26/9/2007 at 6:00pm
Location: Ayrshire Scotland Outfit: Santa Fe CRDi + Swift Conqueror 645
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Couldn't agree more, Fulabeer.
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21/10/2007 at 12:37pm
Location: Hopefully in my caravan. Outfit: swift challenger 530
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What happens if you buy a car and you did'nt know it was chipped?ie if you crashed it and the insurance becomes void can you tell if it has been chipped?and thanks for all the feed back.
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21/10/2007 at 5:19pm
Location: Remfrewshire Outfit: BMW 330d XC90 D5 Abbey Vogue 540
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Only your insurance company can answer that one.
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21/10/2007 at 8:20pm
Location: West Scotland Outfit: Fleetwood Garland and Almera
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thing is here folks that we are looking at mods for totally different reasons to the racing mob they need power at high revs and for more speed we dont. being old school I would rather check out the possibilities of traditional tuning like free flow air filters and exhausts, I know in the old days a K&N mated to a janspeed exhaust would give 10% by helping the engine breathe better, ditto for polishing the ports on the head (s) plus with on most cars the wrong wheels are driven (front) and as we have the weight dragging on the rear that extra power is wasted if you wheelspin
reckon it is back to plodding away
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22/10/2007 at 9:23am
Location: Manchester Outfit: Ford Kuga Swift Challenger
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fulabeer,
have read your posts and you seem clued up on chipping/tuning,
just wondered if you have any views on dragon performance uk products?
and as we are both in the manchester area, can you recommend a local installer.
thanks ,
gary.
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22/10/2007 at 12:20pm
Location: Ayrshire Scotland Outfit: Bailey Pegasus gt65
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When I had my Kia sedona I was speaking with my Kia Dealer and they had a Genuine KIA chip that increased BHP from 142 to 180, the chip cost £400 and I was advised this wouldn't invalidate the warranty if it was fitted by a KIA dealer and it wouldn't add any stress to the engine.
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22/10/2007 at 2:58pm
Location: Ayrshire Scotland Outfit: Santa Fe CRDi + Swift Conqueror 645
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With reference to Megabyte's post, and to underline what I've said previously in this thread, I bought my Sorento after driving a Sorento demo which had been chipped by my dealer!! After doing 1000 miles to settle the engine, I then got the same modification done by the same company.
And with reference to Alan's post, he's perfectly correct in saying that here we're talking about mature responsible adults increasing the output of their engines by maybe 30%, NOT boy racers messing about with their 'souped-up' GTIs.
The situation with many insurance companies is exactly because they fail to differentiate between the two groups, and lump everybody in with the boy racers!
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22/10/2007 at 5:43pm
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I'm gonna guess rechipping a turbodiesel involves increasing the turbo boost- I notice manufacturers produce the same model car with the same size engine in different power outputs at different prices-I'm guessing it costs no more to produce the same engine with any power output so the higer price charged for the higher power is just marketing--or am I wrong--?--
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24/10/2007 at 4:41am
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I notice there is no mention of upgrading the intercooler. Would this be worth doing as well as chipping on turbodiesels. On petrol engines before chipping it was the camshaft that dictated engine characteristics as wel as carburretor and exhaust upgrades. I would think it is probably a better idea if changing motor to get one with suffient power in standard spec.
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