Revo car Tuning

Tuning your vehicle can give it a new lease of life making the ownership more enjoyable. Tuning can take many different forms. The most popular tuning we do is remaps. What is a remap I hear you say ?

Remaps or chip tuning or chipping are all words used to describe a process that has changed over the years. The modern vehicle engine be it diesel or petrol has a computer that runs a specific software program to control your engine and it’s electronic components. Engines were all controlled by mechanical components before electronic control of engines was introduced. Some of you may remember carburettors, points and distributors. In the old days we tuned engines by re jetting carburettors, advanced the timing with the distributer, re profiling the cam shafts etc. with the introduction of the electronic control unit (ECU) for the engine tuning enter the digital era. The software that ran in the ECU had to be modified to alter fuel timing etc.

In the early days of digital tuning the only way to modify the software program was to remove the physical chip copy the chip using a programmer and then modify the software and write the modified code back to a new chip and put it back in the ECU, this is why it was referred to as chipping. Well like all technology things have moved on somewhat. The car industry adopted the ODBII diagnostic interface standard that is present in all modern cars this then led to the ability to re program the ECU via the diagnostic port. REVO Technik were one of the pioneers of port flashing called serial port flashing because the lead was connected to the serial port on a laptop or PC, this is now a USB connection.

Serial port flashing is how we modify your engine ECU today. The manufactures for some years have employed complex encryption on there software, which has been the challenge for the tuners. REVO Technik work closely with Volkswagen group on a number of projects in different countries enabling Revo to be at the fore front of the software tuning world for Volkswagen group vehicles.