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Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« on: January 23, 2013, 10:07:19 pm »
Hi Guys,

As in the topic. Considering a map from a big name company and would like to hear your stories please.

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 10:16:26 pm »
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This will be interesting but unfortunately you may find that those who have switched may have done so due to dissatisfaction with the one they had. You obviously need an objective comparitive view of both.

Word is that Revo is slightly more 'aggressive', but.....................   :popcornsoda:



Personally I think they are both very good by reputation and user reports. EDIT: But I only have direct experience of Revo.

For which engine - Golf R?
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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 10:18:09 pm »
This thread won't help you choose lol. Flick a coin instead. You'll be happy as fook either way

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2013, 10:18:27 pm »

Personally I think they are both very good. For which engine - Golf R?

And you draw that conclusion from your own experience then Robin?

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2013, 10:23:34 pm »
Where is Hurdy?
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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2013, 10:23:54 pm »
cool pic Robin  :happy2:

Yes it would be for R engine.

Just by reading on the group APR had customer service issues before but now back to business and extending their presence.

Would you really just flip a coin?  :evilgrin:

Also any map would be on RR I presume even though they are out of the box for a specific car configuration? I only have experience with small tuners and always on RR

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2013, 10:26:23 pm »
Where is Hurdy?

He'll be off timing 0-60 runs somewhere :driver:   :grin:

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2013, 10:26:50 pm »

Personally I think they are both very good. For which engine - Golf R?


And you draw that conclusion from your own experience then Robin?


....Nope, I never said that was so. Sorry if it appeared to be implied - I'll edit my post.

What I mean by that is that when I chose a remap I investigated both APR and Revo but chose Revo (due to JKM and more convenient access) and APR would have been and probably still would be my second choice.  


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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2013, 10:27:39 pm »
I've ran both, APR on the ED30 and Revo on the S3, no issues with either  :smiley:

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2013, 10:29:31 pm »

He'll be off timing 0-60 runs somewhere :driver:   :grin:

and he will be doing so using APR or Revo software?  :party:

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2013, 10:30:20 pm »

He'll be off timing 0-60 runs somewhere :driver:   :grin:

and he will be doing so using APR or Revo software?  :party:

Paul

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2013, 10:30:37 pm »
I've had both. I now have Revo as APR ditched my tuner of choice and I wont have APR again.

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2013, 10:31:13 pm »
I've ran both, APR on the ED30 and Revo on the S3, no issues with either  :smiley:

would you be able to describe any similarities / differences?

I know it will be very subjective...

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2013, 10:34:27 pm »
I've had both. I now have Revo as APR ditched my tuner of choice and I wont have APR again.

politics aside, did you notice any differences in power delivery, smoothness etc or they are so similar it's hardly noticeable at all?

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Re: Who had both Revo and APR and willing to share experience?
« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2013, 10:37:08 pm »

I've had both. I now have Revo as APR ditched my tuner of choice and I wont have APR again.


....Yes, I think we both have the same tuner of choice and so I would stay with that tuner too.

However, for someone else I am of the opinion (without direct experience of APR) that the APR remap is worthy of serious consideration as an alternative.

It's a good point you bring up though about the importance of the tuner and not just the map software itself.  :happy2:


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