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Soon be under £1.00
I was priced £1.025 for 10k red.
I want to buy under the magic.£1.
They said expecting to drop 3p over 24hrs so I shall wait.
If it does I shall probably only buy 5k with the proviso that if it falls further I can add 5k more to the delivery.
Patients might be a dangerous game 😬 but so far I am£750 cheaper than from where I started and that will pay for 2 tractors to have a boost to save an extra 10% fuel..(possibly)
 

mf7480

Member
Mixed Farmer
I was priced £1.025 for 10k red.
I want to buy under the magic.£1.
They said expecting to drop 3p over 24hrs so I shall wait.
If it does I shall probably only buy 5k with the proviso that if it falls further I can add 5k more to the delivery.
Patients might be a dangerous game 😬 but so far I am£750 cheaper than from where I started and that will pay for 2 tractors to have a boost to save an extra 10% fuel..(possibly)

a power boost/ remap?
 
a power boost/ remap?
It's not a remap, it's a gissmo that goes into the wiring loom to boost/economise the engine.
I like the idea that I can remove it if I'm not happy with it or if I am and when I sell the tractor I can put on the next but time will tell.
I wouldn't have considered it but for the price of fuel. If it saves 2 litres an hour 250 hours and it's paid for 💲
 

balerman

Member
Location
N Devon
It's not a remap, it's a gissmo that goes into the wiring loom to boost/economise the engine.
I like the idea that I can remove it if I'm not happy with it or if I am and when I sell the tractor I can put on the next but time will tell.
I wouldn't have considered it but for the price of fuel. If it saves 2 litres an hour 250 hours and it's paid for 💲
Sounds like this company has a very good salesman!!
 
Sounds like this company has a very good salesman!

Sounds like this company has a very good salesman!!
Maybe, I have a motorhome that was remapped and I knew it was better by the time it left the forecourt. It pulled away.
Problem was when it went to the main dealer for service or warranty work and they did a software update I lost the remap and it had to back to be remapped, 120 miles round trip 😬.
Second time I didn't bother.
I like the idea of this one more.
It's the cost of one tank of fuel.
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Maybe, I have a motorhome that was remapped and I knew it was better by the time it left the forecourt. It pulled away.
Problem was when it went to the main dealer for service or warranty work and they did a software update I lost the remap and it had to back to be remapped, 120 miles round trip 😬.
Second time I didn't bother.
I like the idea of this one more.
It's the cost of one tank of fuel.

I had an Audi A6 TDi remapped years ago and the difference in throttle response and MPG was simply staggering.👍

JD6920 here has been remapped too, but obviously within limits, and perfectly happy with the results there too.
I’d be an awful lot more wary of the simple plug in boxes though, although the performance difference between various Mitzi L200’s was purely down to a manufacturer’s plug in box (fitted just above the passenger side footwell).
 
I put a plug in chip thing on a car once when I was a d**kh**d (still not quite got out of it)
Tickover was about 1500 revs, ran rich as hell and just revved a lot harder. It was terrible and would have killed the car of left on. Just be careful people
 
I put a plug in chip thing on a car once when I was a d**kh**d (still not quite got out of it)
Tickover was about 1500 revs, ran rich as hell and just revved a lot harder. It was terrible and would have killed the car of left on. Just be careful people
I'm not doing it the company is.
We have a few good hills. I was going to pull a full grain trailer before and after and note the max speed and fuel spot rate.
I shall report back.
Also this won't affect warranty.
 

Cowabunga

Member
Location
Ceredigion,Wales
I had an Audi A6 TDi remapped years ago and the difference in throttle response and MPG was simply staggering.👍

JD6920 here has been remapped too, but obviously within limits, and perfectly happy with the results there too.
I’d be an awful lot more wary of the simple plug in boxes though, although the performance difference between various Mitzi L200’s was purely down to a manufacturer’s plug in box (fitted just above the passenger side footwell).
I had my 2006 Q7 V6 re-mapped with the same result. The engine became far more responsive and so did the six speed automatic. It transformed the car and did really improve its fuel economy as well. I saw zero downsides in the 60,000 miles I kept it. It was a pre-soot filter model [the DPF was an option at extra cost at the time] with no Adblue. Never noticed any visible smoke from the exhaust even after re-mapping.

Had a plug-in box for the BMW X5 I had in 2003 which was most underwhelming, especially after I transferred it to the subsequent Range Rover. They were certainly more eager to rev noisily but there was zero extra performance. Just more noise when the gearbox kicked down and revs rose. Basically the 180hp BMW engine and five speed General Motors gearbox was overwhelmed by the two to two and a half ton vehicles.
 

Stw88

Member
Location
Northumberland
What is it that these remaps do?

What I mean is why are the engines performing sub-standard out of the factory, so much so that a software update by a third party who didn’t make the engine can significantly improve them?
Most of them will be derated for emission rules. We have a valtra remapped it’s fantastic, but it’s just what they should be like when they come out of the factory.
 

Lincsman

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
What is it that these remaps do?

What I mean is why are the engines performing sub-standard out of the factory, so much so that a software update by a third party who didn’t make the engine can significantly improve them?
De-rated for emissions, VW built this in as standard, they went to normal power if there was no test rig fitted... they are currently paying out compensation for this (the owners thought they were buying very clean frugal engines with low tax disc prices, when in fact they were no better than any other car on the road)
 
De-rated for emissions, VW built this in as standard, they went to normal power if there was no test rig fitted... they are currently paying out compensation for this (the owners thought they were buying very clean frugal engines with low tax disc prices, when in fact they were no better than any other car on the road)
That’s why they pull like a train and still sip fuel 👌
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
De-rated for emissions, VW built this in as standard, they went to normal power if there was no test rig fitted... they are currently paying out compensation for this (the owners thought they were buying very clean frugal engines with low tax disc prices, when in fact they were no better than any other car on the road)

Thank you, that makes sense.

I would be most surprised if the owners were too interested in how clean the engine emissions were. Fuel economy however is a different matter!
 
It's not a remap, it's a gissmo that goes into the wiring loom to boost/economise the engine.
I like the idea that I can remove it if I'm not happy with it or if I am and when I sell the tractor I can put on the next but time will tell.
I wouldn't have considered it but for the price of fuel. If it saves 2 litres an hour 250 hours and it's paid for 💲
So it's just a chip box? I think the saving fuel theory comes from allowing you to use bigger implements so less fuel per acre. If that's not the aim,they just drink more fuel than before,if what I've been told is true
 

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