The pros of chip tuning a car engine:
- Increased engine power, without technical intervention. It is possible to increase the power up to 40%;
- Short technical installation. You can update the firmware literally in 15 minutes;
- Factory settings can be returned back in the same 15 minutes;
- Smoother driving under load, e.g. with the air conditioning on;
- Chip tuning can be done on warranty cars, dealers do not check the electronic settings of the ECU;
- You can “sharpen” the internal combustion engine of your car for a certain type of fuel. For example, from 95 to 92;
- Chip tuning will help to remove engine errors, and disable broken elements that prevent the car from working. For example – the catalytic converter. It is expensive to change it, but chip tuning will help the car to work without it4.
- With the help of chip tuning you can remove the speed limit. Many cars have a limitation of the upper mark of speed, for example, 170 or 180 km / h, although the car is capable of more. A different firmware, will help remove this restriction;
- Tweaking the ECU firmware. You can put aggressive firmware – it will increase engine power, quick start from the place. And you can economical firmware – great fuel economy, but dynamics is almost no. You can put factory, normal – slightly increased dynamics, by 3 – 5%, and the same reduced fuel consumption of 3 – 5%.
Minuses of chip tuning of the car:
- The first disadvantage is the cost of chip tuning. If cars VAZ, you can assemble the device yourself, but with foreign cars do not experiment, and trust proven services. Chip tuning of foreign cars ranges from 30 to 300 thousand tenge, depending on the brand;
- If you do the firmware yourself, you can kill the ECU block, and the repair will be much more expensive;
- Aggressive firmware increases engine power (up to 40%), reducing fuel consumption is out of the question;
- When installing aggressive firmware, the engine life may be reduced. Let it be by 5 – 7%, but it will be.
