VIR TT FLY

Why purchase a spare ECU from APR at the full price of $650 if they offer the "Flipswitch Technology" for stock and chipped?

If I switch the chip to "stock" mode, will AUDI Service still be able to see the non-stock chip?

I am definitely purchasing my chip this week, but thought this would be good to know in case I want the extra EMCS options.

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Bluto

they will still know it is chipped.

FWIW a very close friend of mine does not have one, but should.

TTigg

unless of course they have good reason too. Not sure if this helps or not but wanted to share

Bluto

would love to have some back up to that.

Rennen

...suspected that the car had been chipped. The spare ECU is an insurance policy.

Mike Staley

that you have a chipped ecu. There are several data blocks that tell the technician if you are chipped or not.
A second ECU is the only way to hide it.. then I wonder what other computers on the car acutally log data????

ZGTT

in that case use the line "I chipped but didn't inhale!" :-D

economisTT

realy can't tell unless they physically inspect the chip (a rare occurance -- but one with a non-zero chance of happening).

ross@downforce.net

if they dont know its chipped - they wont think you'll miss the original ECU...

juliem

this was after the ECU went to Detroit first... or so said the service manager while my car was ever-so-slowly repaired

Yeah, and the ECU was stock.