Remapping's bad? Well, BMW are doing it now.

Owen

Yup, you can now have your 135, 335, or X6 with the same engine remapped by BMW.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/09/19/bmw-announces-new-power-kits-for-135i-and-335i/

Is this the start of something new? Manufacturers deciding what everyone else has been doing is now suddently an additional revenue stream and should be capitalised on?

unkel

Volkswagen has been doing it for donkeys years

I believe they use mysterious red letters in the mapping process

bazz26

Mitsubishi and Subaru have been doing this with the Evo and STi for a while too. Power upgrades from the factory, nice to have these things covered under warranty though.

VolvoMan

Volvo also do it with Polestar.

The upgrades are warranty approved and offered through the dealer network (although not in Ireland as you would expect).

unkel

I seem to remember Toyota started offering this as well over here, some years ago. Colm_mcm posted about it at the time

Interesting way of generating some extra revenue. As bazz26 said, only a manufacturer / dealer remap will keep the car under warranty, so they can charge a nice premium for that over a regular indy remapper

And no doubt they'll offer the remap only in countries / markets where the (small) remap will have no chance of doing any damage whatsoever. Countries with moderate climates, like Ireland, are ideal

R.O.R

Saab used to do it as well. You could get the 1.8t (150ps) upgraded to the same power as the 2.0t (175ps) by the dealer, for less than the factory cost as there was no VRT on the dealer fit option.

Fully warranted by Saab.

Atomic Pineapple

And while Ford don't do it themselves I believe they allow you to keep your warranty if the remapping is done by Mountune.

voxpop

The vag cars with special red letters:pac: do have different components , i.e. injectors,turbos and intercoolers - its not just taking a 90bhp golf and remapping it to 130 or 150


On what bmw are doing - 20 horses for 600 quid is a bit steep (on a turbo'ed car) but I suppose the warranty is all important