to be honest though, getting a job done right, then distance is no option in travelling to the right tuner (within reason of course)
the tuner I have gone to is about 2 1/2 hours away, based on a couple of aspects - they are well respected, have a good reputation and were the only ones who actually showed the right level of interest to want to do the job and have been excellent so far
the likes of Jabbasport said no straight away, fair enough.
However if it was me, I would do it.
I think I rang around every VAG tuner in the UK and no one could do it, apart from three
Star obviously, but even for me thats too far
AMD - but unfortunately they were unable to do the custom map due to their mapper working on another job, which was a real shame as they would have been ideal
Current tuner who are working on the car
the reason I would take on the job is for a number of reasons.
once the gt2x map is done, you have a solid base for adding this to a pre prepared kit, as I see a lot of people wanting about 300bhp, and if the current tuner could offer this map with the base kit as a package then they are onto a winner
I suspect this is what the tuner may do, but fair play to him, as I reckon a well priced package based on my car and modifications would sell like hot cakes to the VAG community, and now the mapping time would be cut from 3 days to 1 (due to now a baseline map) give or take variations in modifications and could well make a very nice profit