Well we've gone and put a deposit on a facelift 2.2hse 150bhp, in black with black leather , Can any one recommend either a plugin superchip/ bluefin ? or remap available in Lincolnshire, it seems there's so many to choose from and price ranges as well,

Cheers Nick

Sounds nice Nick. Where are you buying it from?
 59 TD4e XS in galway green

Diesel chip is your best bet as its in warranty they all work the same ie: £80 chip and a £400 chip, If you don't mind possibly voiding your warranty a remap would be good but expensive. Basically a chip just holds the injectors open for longer causing premature wear but its still ok imo. However 150hp is quite alot you'll probably find its more than adequate unless you plan on racing boy racer audi's or bmw's..

I'd drive it for a while to see if you really need it, my guess is you won't as you don't need to go fast

Absolutely no point in "chipping" the freelander, it has plenty of power and after all it is a 4x4 not a racing car .Don't forget if its a brand new car the engine will be tight anway. Mine is just begining to ease at 12,000
miles

Realspeed Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

There is a few on here that run ecu remaps and say the car is a much better drive, that way by changing the way the car delivers power is far better than a plug in 'chip' that fools the engine

I laugh when I read comments on racing boy racers as remapping a car may give you X bhp or Y torque but that also relates to pulling power through the gears. It can also improve mpg though they say you tend to stay around the same Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Getting it from Duckworths

Its 12 months old with 4500 miles auto, only considering a chip as i drive a ffrr s/c and am expecting it to feel a little under powered compared to what im used to, having said that its my wifes car so she'll be doing most of the driving (she'll do about 6k in it and i'll probably do 10k tho) , but after a 4.7v8 jeep she might have the same thoughts,

Yeah im not a fan of fooling the engine by upping the rail preasure, much prefere the ecu remap route, but im not in any rush to do anything to it just looking forward to getting it

Try these, I had a Stage 2 on a TD5 a couple of years ago, which worked well for me.

http://www.jeengineering.co.uk/index.php

http://portal.jeengineering.co.uk/engines/diesel-tunes.html

Not cheap but good.

chrisdeeming wrote:

Diesel chip is your best bet as its in warranty they all work the same ie: £80 chip and a £400 chip, If you don't mind possibly voiding your warranty a remap would be good but expensive. Basically a chip just holds the injectors open for longer causing premature wear but its still ok imo. However 150hp is quite alot you'll probably find its more than adequate unless you plan on racing boy racer audi's or bmw's..

I don't think there is a programme inside a £400 box If you find the "facts" post them back

I think the multi channel bits are exactly the same on all tuning boxes and you just flick the switch on or off

need to see inside both really..

save ya money there is plenty of grunt in the 150 bhp freelander good low down grunt and dosent hang around when asked to give power think you will find that you may not need to chip plus it may void yr warranty  rainy-city
xs

You really think the plug in under the bonnet chip is the same as a ecu remap  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

would it leave a trace of the mapping config in the ecm so if the dealer ran an engine con fig would it show that the engine had been running different than what was set at the factory, rainy-city
xs

The way I understand it, if you have a remap or Bluefin then when in for a service and the dealer has a software update it can over write the bluefin or remap, but dont quote me, I only know that cos a pals got a focus rs and removes the tuning software before services ??? sso the way forward is bluefin

chrisdeeming wrote:

I don't think there is a programme inside a £400 box If you find the "facts" post them back

I think the multi channel bits are exactly the same on all tuning boxes and you just flick the switch on or off

need to see inside both really..