Remapping Cars

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Remapping cars has become extremely popular in recent years. People love their cars and enjoy driving them. Remapping gives them the opportunity to get far more out of their car. They get better performance and, in some cases, better economy as well. What Does Remapping Cars Involve? Remapping cars is a relatively simple process. It involves an engineer or mechanic connecting your car up to a computer and loading new software configurations into your car's engine management system. Cars built after around about 2000 are usually fitted with a internal computer that manages certain aspects of the engines performance. Including the mix of air and fuel under certain circumstances, ignition timing and when the turbo will kick in. By reconfiguring the software that controls how the engine is managed you can get far more acceleration and more BHP out of your engine. This makes for a much better driving experience and often a much more exciting one. You sometimes see remapping referred to as chip tuning or ECU tuning. This is because it is in fact a microchip within the internal computer of your car that is being reconfigured or ...
... remapped. Limits to Remapping Cars How extensively your car can be remapped is dependent on several factors. Firstly, if your vehicle is not fitted with an engine control management system there is no chip to have remapped. Obviously in these cases there are no remapping options; however some mechanical tuning to improve performance may be possible. Most manufacturers allow quite extensive remapping of their engine management systems. However, a few manufacturers limit what can be done. The engineer that carries out your remapping will explain to you any limits that exist for your make and model of car. Remapping cars can be done in conjunction with my mechanical enhancements to make it perform better. Regardless of which options you choose it is very important that you use a well-established firm that fully guarantees their work. If you do this, should anything go wrong at a later date, the firm will still be in business and you will be able to get repairs done under the guarantee.

ECU Remapping UK has been remapping carsfor several years now, so have the experience needed to do a good job.