S80 D5 Tuning

[Boneman]

I'm after accessing some PH distributed intelligence. I have an 07 plate S80 D5 geartronic. I really like the car (last motor was an S60 D5 and loved that). I mainly use the car for motorway cruising, and long distance stuff, but with the odd cross country trip.

I find the car a little sluggish and so I'm thinking of tuning. Now the question is whether to go for something like a Tunit plug-in, roughly 200bhp or to go for something like a RICA remap. Experience chaps? Pluses and minuses?

I think my motor is a 163 motor (difficult as it's badged 2.4D, but has a silver engine cover, which I was told meant 185...). I'm sureI could find out. Anyway around 200 hopefully will give it more poke (not looking for a rocket ship!). I currently get an average of 37 mpg.

Advice welcome...

[Rockatansky]

I have no D5 experience (T5 all the way here!!), but I have read favourable reports about RICA's latest version of their map here:

http://forums.t5d5.org/index.php?showtopic=7991

[Boneman]

Rockatansky said:

I have no D5 experience (T5 all the way here!!), but I have read favourable reports about RICA's latest version of their map here:

http://forums.t5d5.org/index.php?showtopic=7991

Thanks.....phoned a RICA distributor this afternoon. £500 gets me approx 210 bhp. Sounds good to me!

[mondayo]

I've used CCC Technology (not for my volvo) before and he was pretty good. They can do chip tuning or boxes. Apart from him being a sound guy to use, he also drives out to you to tune the car.
On the site it quotes a 30bhp improvement for the 2.4D 163 up to 193) and 35bhp improvement for the D5 (185 up to 220). When I used him, he was also a fair bit less than 500 quid too!

[Boneman]

mondayo said:

I've used CCC Technology (not for my volvo) before and he was pretty good. They can do chip tuning or boxes. Apart from him being a sound guy to use, he also drives out to you to tune the car.
On the site it quotes a 30bhp improvement for the 2.4D 163 up to 193) and 35bhp improvement for the D5 (185 up to 220). When I used him, he was also a fair bit less than 500 quid too!

Great, thanks for the reference. I think I'm going to do a bit more research and see who offers best value and support on remaps.