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You can buy the Bluefin flash tuner straight from the Superchips UK website, and have it delivered to your doorstep for approx $960. This is arguably the best tuning product out there, because it allows you to easily return to the stock ecu calibration whenever you like, and that price is half what the likes of Oettinger charge for their tune.

The only thing holding me back is that I have a DSG gearbox and I've become a victim of all the scaremongering (probably instigated by VW themselves to deter people from 'chipping' their cars) out there suggesting that the box can't handle any more than about 380 Nm. The Superchips tune for the GT TDI produces 430Nm (and it seems there is only one tune available on the Bluefin), so I'm obviously a bit concerned about it being too much for the gearbox.

Unfortunately, when I contacted Superchips with my concerns, I got a very generic response that sounded like it came from someone in the PR department, not someone with technical knowledge of the product.

So although I've been assured that their product is "designed to operate within safe tolerances so as not to compromise vehicle reliability", I'm still not convinced. Why would the likes of Oettinger and Tunit offer a map with much less torque for the DSG models if there wasn't an issue? Damn it, I love the DSG, but this torque issue is a real pain in the proverbial.

Im in exactly the same boat as you.
Even contacting them resulted in a useless response.
To Gerards credit he was able to get hold of a torque curve for the 125kw TDI DSG. The touque is limited to 402nm which is still a concern as other tuners are limiting to 380nm for the DSG.
I asked why the 402 and how they decided this was a safe limit and just got the warranty type response regarding the engine being covered however this still does not answer us regarding the DSG.
I am also a bit suspect on the graph i was given and whether it was real or just drawn up.
The reason for this is that superchips first said that when they get a 125kw TDI DSG in their shop then they will do a dyno run then a day later the graph showed up.
I wonder whether this was just produced for marketing and was not really a proper dyno run result.
The superchips graphs dont look like your normal type dyno sheets anyway.
Dont get me wrong, I'm not bagging them here but i just want to be 100% satisfied that my car wont fail somewhere down the line.
At the moment i havent convinced myself of this and I also think it would be a real s h i t fight trying to make a claim on them of something did fail.
Another point is that the info on the cover is no longer on their website. (I cant find it anway.)
Having said all this, I am still considering it as i like the idea of it. I'm not considering any other tune

I also am having trouble getting a price off their website or adding a product to the basket, I was trying to have a play.

Is ordering online not available at the moment.?