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Anyone got any experience of chipping a dCi engine. There is loads of stuff on the internet about chipping VW TDi's but not much on Renaults. A friend is very impressed with my 1.5 100bhp dCi and wondered if his Clio 80bhp could be chipped. I think my dCi has a dual vane turbo which the Clio doesn't but he may be able to increase it to 90bhp.
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Superchips will do one ( www.superchips.co.uk ), IIRC it's about £500 and adds 15 bhp to that engine. I've heard good things sbout their service as well.
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The Clio is available with the 100 bhp engine, values of the 80 and 100 are similar so your friend might be better to sell his 80 and buy a 100 of a similar age/spec.
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Try www.upsolute.com. they have agents in the UK and will chip your car at home or at your work place.
I've had a Merc Cdi and VWTdi chipped by them. In each case it was the best £300 Ive spent
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I can recommend www.dervdoctor.co.uk - Gav is an expert on all things diesel and he is usually a fair bit cheaper than things like superchips
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Just wondering:
I wonder what percentage of chip tuned cars have been done so without the knowledge of the insurer? Most, I reckon, if a straw poll of friends is anything to go by. I ended up having to switch from Tesco and use a specialist broker (Adrian Flux) because Tesco (and all other direct insurers I found) had no means of assessing non standard risk. I don't care that the change is "undetectable" (not true of course, if searched for hard enough, or the software checksum is checked); it was more a matter of principle to tell them.
Insurance cost for my BSR PPC chipped 252bhp/410NM V70 2.4T changed from £430 pa with £250 excess (standard car, with Tesco) to £557 pa with £320 excess (chipped car, with NU via Adrian Flux). This was less than I was quoted for a standard V70 T5 - which is slower accelerating and outright (because revs become the issue, with the electronic speed limiter now removed) than my otherwise identically equipped 2.4T - and came as a pleasant surprise.
I haven't had the car flat out, but on the two occasions I tried in France, the serene and unending way it relentlessly pulled past 110, 120, 130, 140 MPH (to quote an FJ1200 bike review I once read) "with the inevitability of a falling bomb" was unbelievable. Of more use to me in daily driving is the huge in-gear acceleration, but either way, this was the best motoring six hundred quid I've ever spent.
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Thanks all. Will pass info on, or better still tell him about this site.
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