JOW240725 wrote:

Remaps are a bit of a minefield. I have no experience of Dynachip so can't comment on them. I do have a BAS170AB remap and can't recommend it highly enough. I would also highly recommend Gareth at Empire Tuning. And have only heard good things about Alive and IRB Developments. Personally, I would only use one of these.

The reason I went for BAS is purely I was highly recommended by a personal friend and secondly if it's good enough for JLR, Bowler and Twisted, it's good enough for me

Whoever you go with it really is worth doing, done right it will totally transform the whole drive for the better.

the facts are what they are regardless of who thinks who's remap is the best but is the above statement true re; JLR ? The last I heard about a 3rd a party doing remaps for JLR (or at least trying to the emissions weren't where they needed to be).
There's been various rumours in the past about 1 company copying another which may or may not be true. In the early days I understand there was a 'shoot out' at one of the rolling roads which may or may not be noted on here?

All I can say is I appear to hold the record for best mpg (if my memory serves me right 40mpg which was the result of over 600 miles on a single / standard tank).
I've also done over 50k miles since the map and the engine is running sweet as a nut at 100k miles.

In the early days I was really keen to have the ability to return to the original map but the question of 'why if the remap is good' was put to me, I never had an answer to that albeit from a warranty perspective then yes it might be helpful?

I'm sure if you go for any of those mentioned above you'll be happy - can't recall anyone not being happy - except in the earlier days of remaps.

Caterham wrote:

no idea if that's the case or not but it's not the story I've heard.

my understanding is someone who DID sub-contract to Ford and JLR worked with BAS / Pete for a while and then spent a lot of time working with IRB - I was lucky enough to meet him numerous times and he was a genius and has since sadly passed.

I guess you could ask which came first the chicken or the egg. did the JLR 170 autobiography come first or the BAS 170?

I'm not suggesting what BAS produce isn't excellent - reviews prove the quality of their / his products but we need to ensure the facts are just that - facts. If my comments aren't factual than please correct as my comments are to a degree based on hear-say as I suspect are a lot of comments on here. Although I have no season to believe my comments aren't factual I also have no proof either

very contentious subject as has been proven time and again with the numerous threads on here.

as mentioned before I've no doubt whomever you go with you'll be impressed.