What Modifications Do You Have (Is220D)?

[zoran]

Im loving that look levi !!

[CGorner]

Looks really good that Levi, what springs have you got on? And what's the ride like after fitting? Yeah j do agree would look awesome with spacers but would need to get new hubs to be honest for that much of a gap

[Levi5387]

Thanks, the are H&R springs 35mm drop. The ride is stiffer on the speed bumps and occasionally scraps on the top of the bump. But on normal roads it's actually not to bad, still pretty smooth. My friends still thinks it's a smooth drive.

[CGorner]

If I was getting lowering springs that's what I was gonna get just wanted to hear a few reviews etc haha, how many miles you done on them now? Looks really good perfect height

[zoran]

have you any engine/performance mods on the car levi?

[Levi5387]

I've have had the springs for approx 3500 miles. No problems at all.

I have a tdi-tuning box which modifies the fuel intake and boost. TDi tuning claim it would be 220bhp and 480nm torque. When it was installed, I noticed a huge difference.

[zoran]

I think the racechip ive got fitted is claimed to take the car to 230bhp but im not so sure,its maybe more like 210ish

[CGorner]

Ahh that's good then! May consider getting them.

Ahh right where are TDI tuning based? And is it a chip or a rolling road remap? Also how much was it? Ive seen one that is supplied by Toyota it's supposed to make an extra 35hp and 70nm and its £375

[Levi5387]

If I remember correctly it's on the outskirts of East London. Best to Google it. It's a chip. It was £345.

[CGorner]

Yeah just had a look actually! To be honest Id rather remap but heard it can't be done on this car?! If It can't be remapped I'm gonna get a tuning box instead

[Spartan 01]

Hi, the ECU cannot be remapped. It's a Toyota engine and has sort of special encryption thing (I'm sure that someone here can offer more insight lol) I tried looking and researching for the best part of 6 months. Can't be done!

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[Levi5387]

I'm not sure tbh. The box does the exact same thing. Only difference is, if you want your car back to standard, you only have to take the chip out of the car and that's it. With a remap, you must go to a specialist to get the standard map back

[CGorner]

Ahh really? Yeah I'd heard this was gonna speak to TDI North near me, yeah that's understandable but easier to use it's just that a remap is custom to the car and the car will react and perform better to this than a standard tuning box

[Levi5387]

They actually changed the map on the chip for my car, I tried the original tdi map but the car cut out during rapid acceleration. So they customised it till it ran smoothly with the car. I had to test drive new maps about 5 times. Happy with the result. Plus on the box, you get Eco to performance settings, I have it in the middle which is half Eco half performance.

[CGorner]

Ahh right I see that's strange! So you had to take your car to them to get it changed?! Must have been a nightmare going through all that though!

[Levi5387]

I drove to their garage as I don't live to far to get them to install it.

[CGorner]

Ahh that's alright then, no good for me like, London is miles away haha

[zoran]

The racechip i have i just plugged it in and it worked straight away.maybe i was just lucky??

[CGorner]

That's pretty decent then, maybe it was a different chip and map? Could be a better one than the one Levi got?

[zoran]

On the instructions that came with the chip it does show you how to alter the different settings on the chip,,mine was fine as it was but its easy to change it if needs be.

The car really does drive much better since i fitted the racechip,much better power and torque

[CGorner]

That's awesome sounds really good to be honest, where is yours from dude?

[zoran]

I ordered mine from racechips website,it only took 3days to arrive

[zoran]

I ordered mine from racechip website,took 3 days to arrive

[CGorner]

Ahh yeah is it the German website? Also which one did you get? There's 3 on here starting at 149 euros to 479 euros

[zoran]

I got the pro2 .it says 231bhp on the website,not sure its taken my car to that much but its certainly made a big difference.