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07-03-2013, 03:42 PM
A friend of a friend took his car to a garage today to have his R reg dturbo tuned he was told that his car is now 128 bhp.
They added some sort of box and he claims its faster is there anything of that sort you can buy for these engines? 
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Is that a HDi turbo diesel or the 1.9??
and what garage was it?! Wishes for more power...
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tuning box on a 1.9?! no, they dont do them.
Its mechanical injection so its all mechanical adjustments. How do they know its now 128bhp?? And how much did he pay for his 36bhp upgrade?! FYI....dont need to go to a garage to tune a 1.9dturbo...just a couple of tools and find the online guides! (=free) Wishes for more power...
07-03-2013, 03:49 PM
If it's a 1.9 on an R reg it's a DTurbo. If that's the case the garage is talking bollocks if they added a black box and said it's faster.
Pretty much any mods to get a DT to that kind of power are almost invisible to the eye. Just a couple of nuts/bolts need fiddled with and to the untrained eye will still look stock. I'd advise your mate to ask what the garage actually did... How much did he pay out of interest? ![[Image: signature_zps1a02ba79.jpg]](http://s1128.photobucket.com/user/martypellowe/media/signature_zps1a02ba79.jpg.html) 
07-03-2013, 03:50 PM
1.9 doesnt have an ecu so nothing can be plug and play its all mechanical tuning
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07-03-2013, 03:50 PM
Thats exactly what i thought
 £250 think hes been robed
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07-03-2013, 03:52 PM
 holy cow!!!!!!!!!! Think we can start making some money if we can 'tune' a dturbo for £250!!!!! 
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07-03-2013, 03:52 PM
f*cking hell day light robbery id say want money back and say going to get trading standards involved and tell him to explain hes researched and thers no ecu etc
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07-03-2013, 03:52 PM
thats almost worth calling trading standards over
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07-03-2013, 03:53 PM
(07-03-2013, 03:52 PM)Piggy1987 Wrote: thats almost worth calling trading standards over Almost? It's definitely worth calling them. Name and shame the garage too. f*ck me I could charge for doing that. All of us could. We could all be diesel experts!
07-03-2013, 03:53 PM
Cheers guys will let you know whats what when i see him later
07-03-2013, 03:54 PM
(07-03-2013, 03:42 PM)Check30 Wrote: A friend of a friend took his car to a garage today to have his R reg dturbo tuned he was told that his car is now 128 bhp. I think the key point here is he claims it's faster. It's only faster because his wallet's now empty
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07-03-2013, 03:56 PM
yeah...placebo....
need to name and shame this garage defo.........or....where is it...we should go down there and all enquire about tune ups, then rip them apart over it....queue up, one at a time and do the same!
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07-03-2013, 04:15 PM
Get a pic of the box for a laugh!! Be funny if they really did fit one to uh, something lol Pure robbed get on to TS
07-03-2013, 04:32 PM
Get a picture of the box I need to see this...
Also trading standards would have a field day with that company doing things like that.
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07-03-2013, 04:32 PM
(07-03-2013, 04:15 PM)con67 Wrote: Get a pic of the box for a laugh!! Be funny if they really did fit one to uh, something lol Pure robbed get on to TS Maybe it's like, er, a box containing a big note saying "f*ck you"?
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07-03-2013, 04:44 PM
(07-03-2013, 04:42 PM)CJ_Derv Wrote: Could have an 11mm and TD04 for less than that Maybe they're what's in the black box? 
07-03-2013, 05:15 PM
As above, make sure you get a pic of the box / the wirering & where its "plugged" into? also if he lets you open up the box and get a snap of that
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07-03-2013, 05:22 PM
big lol's . .
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07-03-2013, 05:51 PM
yeah a black box plugged in is what we've been missing all these years
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07-03-2013, 06:10 PM
I'd name and shame the garage, then maybe someone with some knowledge can drop round with the guy who's got ripped off, with a video camera and ask some intelligent questions, watch them get really confused and spout bullshit, then ask what they did to make "128 BHP", get them to explain then send the whole video over to trading standards and put it on youtube
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