For the benifit of people reading this thread i'll tell you a little about amature remapping companies.
Anyone can become an ecu remapper, you can go on ebay and buy the equipment for around £2000, this will come with all the hardware and software required to load modified maps to ecus and will mostly come with a "days training". You need to know nothing about cars, engines and the process of remapping you just contact the file manager, meet, pay the money and there you have it - your own remapping business.
Most file managers use the dimsport genius system which they buy from dimsport and it comes with:
ECU file modification software
1 x master genius unit
several slave genius units
A couple of thousand credits (used when creating new files)
This will typically set them back by the best part of £10000, which in business terms is quite alot to re-coup in earnings, so armed with your new found knowledge of remapping and actually being a filemanager (because you normally fly to dimsport in italy and they teach you the basics before you part with your cash) you need to recruit some "franchise" remappers who can use your files, for a nominal fee for each one and
help you to start earniing some cash. So now there are a few people with ecu remapping capeabilities running around messing with ecus , they have paid for the equipment, been given some very basic training and have been sent on there way to make some fast cash.
The
problem with this is every person who buys these pieces of equipment are told - YOU WILL MAKE MONEY WITH THIS!!! most come from walks of life that have nothing to do with the motor trade and as such dont have a clue what to do, other than what they have been told.
AND when a fault occurs (which very often does) they have no
help, other than a 12hour a day
help line thats a single bloke 200miles away who is still finding these things out himself.
These indipendent companies may charge pennies in comparison to the likes of AMD,CC,REVO,JABBA etc - this is because the maps have been created with minimal cost and 99% of the time no developement costs, normally just hit and miss.
I could bang on about this subject all day but in short, and its said time and time again on here - BUY CHEAP - PAY TWICE!
