Revo or Van Aaken?

[oi_nutter2000]

I think you make valid points. And i'm not in a state, i think sometimes my thoughts read a little more severely than they actually are. I just find some of the oneupmanship a bit grating at times.

Cheers for your views

 

[Saul]

That's just plain daft. I know of several people who have had 180s superchipped, with no such statements. I've got some pretty good contacts who work for a company called lorven performance who are also a superchips distributer. I've spent a lot of time there with various different cars over the years and know the guys quite well. I'm told by them that superchips has moved away from physical chipping along with the rest of the industry, and i've not known them to do anything but serial port jobs for the last few years.

Basically I'm a bit sick of ignorant people slating everything apart from revo, jabba and apr (and surprise surprise this site is heavily affiliated with all of those companies). I think the principles of revos switching technology are very good, and i'm very keen to have my next xar jabba'd. I just don't see why i'm always seeing superchips portrayed as some Wile E Coyotee company (strap the acme rocket around the acme tree) that they clearly are not.

ignorant i am not, not enough to be taken in by someones marketing to believe that they are the best of the best

just to quantify my comments, i know a lot of people in the chip tuning game, and have a lot of knowledge of what goes on between those companies, i know for a fact superchips would love to be involved with any of the three companies you stated i favour.

I favour them because they know what they are doing and specialise in that particular field, and not because they are affiliated with this website (jabbasport arent anyway)

If ive offended you, i apologise, but i know superchips and the product is not one of the best available to owners of the VAG range.

Ask yourself the question. Do superchips specialise in VAG tuning?

As an admin of this forum, the amount of times we get asked, or read a post "what is the best chip for my car" i defy you to find a post where we havent replied with every VAG tuner under the sun, or told them to use the search function.

Its not just the product, its how its applied to the car when driving, thats what will make you choose between them.

Im sick and tired of people telling me i dont know what im talking about because they've been fed a load of BS on what is basically an average, not bad, but average product.

To add, ive also had apr/revo/amd, never driven a jabbasport car, but have driven a superchips car (ibiza)

No oneupmanship in this post, this is purely my personal opinion based on the knowlege i have gained from being within this forum and speaking to people with a far greater knowledge of car tuning than i will ever have.

 

[oi_nutter2000]

Fair play mate, i dont necessarily think there was any oneupmanship in your previous post either i just do see a lot about that is misinformed. (superchips will ruin your car because they are shite etc)

You haven't offended me, as i said above i often think that things come across differently on a screen than how they are meant.

I don't for a minute think that superchips is the best tuning company, neither do i think that they specialise in VAG or offer the very best product. But i do think that the service that they give and the products that they sell are very good. My car is superchipped and runs at a higher torque and bhp figure than those figures stated by some of those other company's websites. This was verified by 2 seperate rolling roads (because i wnated to know it was true!)

I've always had a good service and a good product from them so when people on here speak lowly of them i'm naturally going to want to defend them so that they are not totally misrepresented.

I apologise to you because i thought that you were just making hearsay presumptions, which you clearly were not. I'm sorry!

Just my thoughts anyway

 

[Saul]

no worries, at the end of the day this place is always open for discussion, and as you say, it can often get misconstrued through a keyboard

if you're ever at a meet ill buy you a beer

i just wanted to clarify a few things, especially that the supporters/sponsors of SCN are there because they pay to be, not because they dish out freebies willy nilly, at the end of the day if we were pushing one over the other, we wouldnt have many sponsors left to pay for the (ever increasing) running of this great place we call SCN

its good that you have received good service, superchips are unlucky in the fact that a lot of dealers dont do them any good in the way they operate (openly slagging off a competitor is never a good way to start)

lets have some more info on your car then

specs etc, what where your RR results and where did you get the car rollered?

 

[oi_nutter2000]

I'd like to come along to a meet actually and i'm with you on that beer!

My ibiza was remapped about a year and a half ago and rolling road was included in the price. It shows 176bhp and 303lb/ft. Second RR figure was from courtenay sport in north walsham showing 173 and 298lbft. ( a bit less but i thought close enough)

Something i've noticed though was that my ibiza, which is a 130pd, seemed to have been running at 146bhp as standard so maybe this has helped.

The reason that i'm so impressed with the software is that since the remap my car has been a genuinely hot hatch, where before hand it was quick and useful but not that exciting. It's extremely fast in terms of in gear acceleration and able to surprise many people who expect a diesel ibiza to be a bit pants.

I'm now happy with the speed and working on some of the cosmetic type mods, like interior and exterior style, some stealthy light allows would be good.

I'll have to get along to one of your rolling road days i think! Cheers

 

[Revo Kev]

I had a conversation on this topic with a new dealer I set up yesterday...
Corten Miller Performance over in Boston Lincolnshire.

Conversation was about customers perceptions of their own cars, basically whichever company you go with you're going to be happy with the software unless it causes running issues. What doesn't get put into perspective is just how much better the superior choices can be.

Reason I mention the above dealer is they wanted to see proof of our products superiority prior to coming on board as a dealer (bear in mind they contacted us about becoming a dealer). They had two MKV Golf's (PD140 and 2.0TFSI) in to test, both were run in stock, with another companies product on (the name has been mentioned in this thread) and with Revo... although there was an improvement with the other product and nothing wrong with it both dyno and road testing showed much better results with both cars running Revo (the TFSI was night and day difference). End of the day they came on board as a dealer!

 

[Revo Kev]

Oh, I'll have a couple of beers at a meet as well please!

 

[oi_nutter2000]

cool, thats interesting. Just out of interest what were they getting out to the tfsi? I've been thinking of buying one next.

 

[Saul]

Oh, I'll have a couple of beers at a meet as well please!

you see, they dont give us freebies, they want freebieres off us !

 

[oi_nutter2000]

lol too right

 

[Mik3y boy]

Mik3y: Are you talking about a VanAaken tuning box? I would do some reading up on Diesel tuning first, then think about spending your money.
If you search you will find masses of info on Revo, so I won't bother adding more. VanAaken have been around for a very long time and for the last few years have made quite a name for themselves doing Diesel tuning as they were one of the first to get involved in it. They specialise in turbo tuning and like Revo have a good name.
Both respectable companies, do some research on here, then go toss a coin.....

I've been thinking about it since i had Ibiza TDI 130 just not sure if its more harm than good, don't get me wrong i'd love the extra torque and bhp, just that i've had bad advice before from "so called professionals" and everyone tells a different story,so it seems Revo and Van Aaken are the best,maybe i should bite the bullet and go for it,besides the new Leon FR is gonna be out soon can't have one of them beat me can i! lol

 

[Mik3y boy]

Thank you!

Thanks for opening my eyes to this subject,as you can see i have a lot to learn about this

 

[ibizacupra]

My car is superchipped and runs at a higher torque and bhp figure than those figures stated by some of those other company's websites. This was verified by 2 seperate rolling roads (because i wnated to know it was true!)

Bring it along to the next RR event and see how it compares to other peeps chosen chipping providers. Only gives you the headline figures and not how it drives, but its a handy comparison for most.

 

[oi_nutter2000]

Bring it along to the next RR event and see how it compares to other peeps chosen chipping providers. Only gives you the headline figures and not how it drives, but its a handy comparison for most.

I'd like to do that! as soon as there is one relatively close by I'll come along!

 

[tris]

there are so many tuners about you will never find the BEST as everyone has different views
so just pick the one you think is best