blue fin vs Shark performance

[Gazzgti]

Opinions on the above two, looking to go stage 1 but would prefere to use a self tuning system.

[big al]

I have a mate who is about to get trained up by Shark, have heard they are pretty good.
Not used either myself yet, but think  Iwill be getting him to install it on my car in the near future.

[PDT]

Just out of interest, why is a Selftune system of interest?

[Gazzgti]

just so i can return to stock and can order without having to book a time/day

[PDT]

Thats understandable.

Selftune systems do have some benefits but the big downside is that you often get a generic map rather than one thats set up for your car. fuelling and boost is often ok but timing is usually mapped on the safe side, often too far retarded to be extra safe.

I have 300 self tune systems in stock but only sell them on mail order basis for diesels, and to people that have their petrolcars mapped in-house. petrols require much more accurate mapping and I dont feel that compromising the product to be safe is the right way to go just to get mail order sales. 

Both options you have mentioned seem to get ok results.

The other option is to have your car professionally custom mapped and ask them to keep both the original and tuned maps on the device, best of both worlds!   

[Greeners]

I was over the moon with my ST1 Bluefin map and would happily have another.

[baldwined30]

If I was you I prob wouldn't have a blue fin, I have stage 3 on mine and the spec is for a panel filter and a cat back, I have an intake and a Turbo back exhaust and the map is the same, only reason I haven't changed is finacial!

[Hedge]

I was over the moon with my ST1 Bluefin map and would happily have another.

Same here. In fact I had all the stages on mine without problem and would do it again. 

[scotta]

No issues with bluefin here! 

[Janner_Sy]

Had bluefin stage 1, 2 and 2+ pn my octavia.  Stage 1 was very smooth, but low torque (not a bad thing though) but stage 2 and 2+ were very poor on my car. Stage 2 was the worst of the 3 maps( had alot of updated maps as well)

I then swapped to shark performance and ended up with all the stages of tune before selling. Much better imo.

the selft tune system i had on my car contained my bluefin stage 2+ map the stock map and the stage 3 shark map that was live mapped on my car over about 6 hours, so doesnt have to be a generic map.  
 The issues ive seen with bluefin 90% of the time seemed to be k03 related. The k04 guys never seemed tok have tthe same issues

[Janner_Sy]

The other option is to have your car professionally custom mapped and ask them to keep both the original and tuned maps on the device, best of both worlds!   

This is what i had on'my car, but also had stage 1 and 2 files along with the imobilizer maps and bluefin stage 2+ maps that i could load onto the handset wwhen ever i wanted.  Only 3 maps could be stored on the handset at any one time.  STS handset also reads fault codes to which is handy

[Sarah]

I have the blue fin stage 2 on my car and it's ok for what it is but I still feel like the car could give more. It will do for now whilst I am doing other things on the car but a custom map is on my list of things to do.  I've not had any issues with the system so can't fault it.

[mortygttdi]

My bluefin handset has just given up the ghost but it like 3 years old and not sure if SC will sort it out?? Its just coming up with "Error communicating with car please contact Superchips"

Darren

[heavyd]

Well having had shark, revo, bluefin, PDTuning and superchips on my car....................
I would say go with Shark. Their stage 1 map is far better than the Bluefin.
One thing that I will stress, is that if you go to stage 2+ with shark, go down to their HQ to get it done on their Rolling road and setup properly.
Out of all the above companies, bluefin was the one I wouldnt go back to.

[sline]

I've had the Shark Performance map on my GT TDI 170 now for a couple of months

Have been really impressed - would definately recommend