Raja

Here's the deal: I get the chip last week, install it myself, do the required "learning" wait with the key in the ignition, fire it up and go. The car hauls ***! Straight up till redline in 2nd-3rd is ridiculous, and 4th and 5th aren't slouches either. Then saturday I get four friends in the car, and pulling out of a mall, I scrape the bottom of the car rather loudly. I stop and look and don't see anything. Maybe I'm being paranoid now, but the car doesn't feel as fast as it did last week. The car also sounds louder, and still pulls pretty hard, but not as much as when I first installed the chip. Anyone have any thoughts on what this could be? I haven't contacted APR yet, because I wanted to get an idea from you guys and gals before I bother them about it. Could I have done something to the exhaust when I scraped, and if so, would this result in a loss of power? Thanks in advance.

Raja Hamilton

J. J. Shaw

I have not chipped our car yet, but if you dented the exhaust it would effect performance. If its dented behind the cat it would give you a reason to buy a aftermarket exhaust and get even more h.p.

MAXFX

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Head to head comparo - same car, same dyno

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Raja

I actually do have a Neuspeed exhaust sitting in the room in its box looking at me. I can't get installed before Wednesday because everyone around here is booked solid, but I will have the APR chip dyno'd at the Autothority tech session. I just have a gut feeling that something isn't running right in 1.8T land.

Raja

PJ

If you think that it might be the chip you can always reset the ecu by disconnecting the battery. APR is pretty good in the customer service department but I'd bet $ to donuts that the chip has nothing to do with it