GIACed Tiguan

[tanehy]

Hi,

Had the ECU on my Tiguan remapped today by GIAC. I had a problem with my Tiguan in that the version of the ECU in my car was a variant that several remappers had not encountered yet. After making some inquiries, decided to have GIAC remap it for me. Lucas from Eurospeed was a great help. He organised GIAC in the US so they knew the ECU programme was coming. The ECU programme was copied off the car and emailed over to them whilst I waited in the morning. They reworked it and sent it back in 45 minutes and the car was reflashed so I left with the car remapped. I have only had it for a day but certainly power delivery is smooth and car has a lot more get up and go.

All other people I inquired with either needed me to leave my car with them for 24 hours or would take a few weeks to get back with a remap once they had downloaded the ECU software.

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Interesting to hear about something other than Oettinger and APR. What did it cost you (if it's OK to ask)? Did they give you any idea of what sort of gains you could expect from the remap?

[tanehy]

Remap costs $1095. I have not paid yet as Lucas wants to make sure I am 100% happy with the flash. The ECU takes up to 3 days to adapt to new programme and both Lucas from Eurospeed and GIAC seem very concerned that I am happy with the result. I can't comment on power gain as I think you would have to dyno the car to get precise figures but I was told to expect gains similar to APR remap. I decided to go with GIAC primarily because of the fact that I did not have to be without my car for a day, and Lucas organised for it all to be done on a Saturday morning for me, so it came down to convenience for me.

I also inquired with Evolve Technik who were very helpful but needed my car overnight and did not provide programme switching.

Having driven it for 2 days now, I can say that there has been noticeable gain in tractability and acceleration.

[manol]

I like this news, awesome.
Good example of a company with integrity who is willing to let you leave without payment, so you can ensure everything is right on the car!

I've had a GIAC tune on my car since it had 1000km on it, it now has nearly 15k and I have had 0 issues and 0 complaints about any of the service provided!

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+1 on the service. Great to hear about companies that are willing to put it out there. They deserve much kudos!

But I'm interested to see what the actual gains are. 'Similar' to APR might be the same, better, or worse. If it is similar to APR you should notice (without wanting to overstate it) a significant difference in performance, particualrly in the torque characteristics of the engine. I guess a 'noticable' gain is not quite how I would describe the APR remap.

[team_v]

But I'm interested to see what the actual gains are. 'Similar' to APR might be the same, better, or worse. If it is similar to APR you should notice (without wanting to overstate it) a significant difference in performance, particualrly in the torque characteristics of the engine. I guess a 'noticable' gain is not quite how I would describe the APR remap.

That is what i am thinking.
Also the reason i will be going with APR for the stage 1 ecu remap.

[TDZ]

Hi,

All other people I inquired with either needed me to leave my car with them for 24 hours or would take a few weeks to get back with a remap once they had downloaded the ECU software.

I thought an APR tune was a 'while you wait' jobbie and only takes an hour or two? obviously dyno would take more time etc

[Suffolk]

My APR Tune only took 15min.