AndrewJB's MK3 Leon Cupra 420ps

STU3Y

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What plans do you have for this one then, or are they waiting on til the warranty expires
 

AndrewJB

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Car is due to be picked up on the 1st with its first modification already done, its booked in on the 2nd for a set of these.

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andy550

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Have to admit, always said I wouldn't buy a grey/silver/black car from new BUT I've seen a couple of monsoon grey FRs and it's possibly the nicest Leon colour atm.

Has anyone managed to open up the ECUs to remap them yet? I know they were having trouble at one point.

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AndrewJB

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Probably going to be adding one of these as well on the 2nd.





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AndrewJB

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Have to admit, always said I wouldn't buy a grey/silver/black car from new BUT I've seen a couple of monsoon grey FRs and it's possibly the nicest Leon colour atm.

Has anyone managed to open up the ECUs to remap them yet? I know they were having trouble at one point.

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APR have I think
 

Al

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Several companies have had a go at software on the the Golf R and S3 so far although none are commercially available yet. The 280 uses a very similar engine/turbo/ecu set up as it's German cousins.

No companies have managed to do it yet with a "fix" for the inevitable checksum change as a result of an ecu flash which, when the car goes in to the main stealer for a service/warranty repair, will flash up as warranty invalidated. Hopefully the tuners will have a solution for this soon though :)

Beware of visual inspections logging TD1 in the event that your car has to go in with teething problems once it has springs/intakes etc AJB.
 

Al

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Sounds interesting. How will that work with regard to things like memory that the car now logs? And how would you go about having it programmed to suit ?