Master Technicians?

[olf]

In a purely hypothetical situation....

A 330d comes in for a service, no problems with the car at all, no warranty work. You service it, take it for a drive and it's clearly re-mapped. Do you smile a wry smile and move on to the next car or make a note on the computer system for future reference?

[motorwise]

I personally would say good luck to him and ignore it - worry about it if/when there's a warranty claim

[blackspider]

Move on to the next car....Only when theres a major failure(engine,gearbox)it would then become an issue.
upgrades are down to the owner and are at the owners risk.Warranty will reject a claim if the upgrade is in anyway involved in a failure.

[olf]

blackspider said:

Move on to the next car....Only when theres a major failure(engine,gearbox)it would then become an issue.
upgrades are down to the owner and are at the owners risk.Warranty will reject a claim if the upgrade is in anyway involved in a failure.

Woudl you run an ECU check after a major failure?

[blackspider]

Technical can see whats happened in any ecu from the data using fasta,any time we plug a car onto diagnosis machine all the info is sent to them(so they know if the program has been changed or if a sensor has been altered,valve opening times,maping)-and they also strip major components to see whats happened-in case its a product failure.

[muzzer79]

olf said:

blackspider said:

Move on to the next car....Only when theres a major failure(engine,gearbox)it would then become an issue.
upgrades are down to the owner and are at the owners risk.Warranty will reject a claim if the upgrade is in anyway involved in a failure.

Woudl you run an ECU check after a major failure?

FWIW my brother has a MK5 Golf GTI with a re-map. The ECU went up the swanny last year and it had to go back to VW for a new one.

My brother was obviously rather concerned that they would spot the re-map and reject it but it was all replaced - no questions asked...

[Andrew D]

muzzer79 said:

FWIW my brother has a MK5 Golf GTI with a re-map. The ECU went up the swanny last year and it had to go back to VW for a new one.

My brother was obviously rather concerned that they would spot the re-map and reject it but it was all replaced - no questions asked...

Well I imagine it's hard to interrogate the ECU for firmware modification if it's cooked. But I suppose it's less difficult if the failure's in the engine mechanicals, so I wouldn't pin much hope on getting away with it all of the time.

Edited by Andrew D on Friday 5th January 10:31