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can i found out if my car is remapped?
« on: November 23, 2011, 06:47:12 pm »
hi guys, right basically i bought my 2005 gti in july and its been great, i fitted an air filter from AMD shortly after i got it and it was very wooshy  :laugh: it didnt seem that slow back then, but recently its become very sluggish so i ordered the uprated diverter valve and fitted it today, all i can say is OMG the performace is amazing the air filter is no way near as loud now as it was, but i swear it goes WAY WAY WAY better than a standard gti the in gear acceleration is phenomenal 30-70 is so quick, sorry to rant on for a while but is there a way i can find out if it has been remapped?
thanks in advance
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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2011, 06:56:59 pm »
hi,

Apart from having a dyno run performed, there's not many ways in my view...even dealers can't detect a remap  :wink:
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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2011, 07:01:27 pm »
log the boost or MAF intake with vcds...
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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2011, 07:02:42 pm »
what should the standard boost be mate?

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2011, 08:51:08 pm »
Try this . Do 80 mph and put you foot down half way , if it changes down its standard . If its mapped it won't change down as no need , bhp and torque are up and it just pulls . That's what happens with mine anyway from standard to stage 1 . You could drive a standard gti , I think standard is pretty slow to be honest that's why I just had to have a map . Although my previous car was a 911 so that didn't help lol
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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2011, 08:57:50 pm »
Forgot to say I am assuming you have dsg when I say to put foot half way down and see if it changes down

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2011, 09:05:19 pm »
Jamma I don't think that's a scientific method of ascertaining if a car is remapped.

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #7 on: November 23, 2011, 10:04:52 pm »
Jamma I don't think that's a scientific method of ascertaining if a car is remapped.

It's a good indication though IMO  :smiley:

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #8 on: November 23, 2011, 10:08:50 pm »
Not really because how can you define how much the accelerator is being pressed.

As has been said. Either rolling road of log the MAF!

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #9 on: November 23, 2011, 10:55:41 pm »
Try this . Do 80 mph and put you foot down half way , if it changes down its standard . If its mapped it won't change down as no need , bhp and torque are up and it just pulls . That's what happens with mine anyway from standard to stage 1 . You could drive a standard gti , I think standard is pretty slow to be honest that's why I just had to have a map . Although my previous car was a 911 so that didn't help lol

DSG adapts itself to each driver, this method of finding out a map won't work.

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #10 on: November 24, 2011, 07:51:25 am »
Jamma I don't think that's a scientific method of ascertaining if a car is remapped.

It's a good indication though IMO  :smiley:


Do you use a pine cone to forecast the weather?  :smiley:

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #11 on: November 24, 2011, 08:54:31 am »
Easy, visit a local tuner, ask them to read your map and compate it with a stock version with the same software variation.

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #12 on: November 24, 2011, 09:44:42 am »
This thread is ace.  :signLOL:

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #13 on: November 24, 2011, 11:35:07 am »
Jamma I don't think that's a scientific method of ascertaining if a car is remapped.

It's a good indication though IMO  :smiley:


Do you use a pine cone to forecast the weather?  :smiley:
I still do and if the cows are lying donw in the field :grin:

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Re: can i found out if my car is remapped?
« Reply #14 on: November 24, 2011, 11:50:43 am »
 :signLOL:   ok let me explain what I mean.

Obviously the map makes the car a lot quicker so I can tell straight away as I have something to compare it with, if the OP was to get someone to drive his car who owns a gti mapped ot not mapped they could tell straight away .

So if someone mapped my car or took the map off I could tell within seconds, slow as oppossed to fast  :driver:

simples  :signLOL: