im obviously not going to go mad with the settings and turn everything up to max, im not stupid, but like i said, taking advise from people seems fine, its advise and not fact. i do it with my computer overclocking, which alltough not as costly if things go wrong, will still cost me a couple of hundred+ to fix, so causion is always advised.
knock on affects come with modding anyway, revoing the car will lead to other stresses and even warrenty issues... suspention leads to stresses on other parts... etc etc...
i also dont have the time to drive 120miles round trip to my tuner every time. Sure i can ask for datalogs IF they bothered keeping it...
In an ideal world buying Vag Com would be the best route, but spending afew hundred on that for a few change settings when i can take advise and causion seems ott. my view obviouslly, again just advise...