My engine chipping experience so far

[sbclover Member Find all posts View Profile Close sbclover]

Mate , No problem since fitting . The engine is smoother (even my wife commented that) and now having had it on during a 1200km trip fuel consumption is down too. EGT's look good too.
Sean

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Mate , No problem since fitting . The engine is smoother (even my wife commented that) and now having had it on during a 1200km trip fuel consumption is down too. EGT's look good too.
Sean

I'm with you Sean, the chip has been in a month today and not a hint of trouble. You have said the engine is smoother & IMO you are spot on.
Time to have a look at a couple of other tunes I'm thinking

[Chip It Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chip It]

thanks for posting a good report guys. Wish we could upload the smiles too. Mine as well. I love driving my car with the chip. BTW, after you have had the Chip on for a while, disconnect the Chip (using the 22 pin test plug we supply) and feel of what the car was like BC (Before Chip). You will be surprised what power you had (and what you were putting up with) stock

It really is amazing going backwards ... hard to explain to those that have never tried it

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thanks for posting a good report guys. Wish we could upload the smiles too. Mine as well. I love driving my car with the chip. BTW, after you have had the Chip on for a while, disconnect the Chip (using the 22 pin test plug we supply) and feel of what the car was like BC (Before Chip). You will be surprised what power you had (and what you were putting up with) stock

It really is amazing going backwards ... hard to explain to those that have never tried it

No problems Robert, I'm just tellin it like it is.

The grin is too big, I don't think that they make a wide angle len's wide enough.


Cheers
Lawrie

[Chip It Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chip It]

lol

[sbclover Member Find all posts View Profile Close sbclover]

I will be taking my car trailer loaded on a couple of thousand k trip next week and plan to take the laptop with me
Last time I towed it without a chip just the exhaust was ok but I just wanted more...

Sean

[berniebgf Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close berniebgf]

I recall discussions about ChipIT new packaging (more water proofing), has this happened yet?

bernie

[Chip It Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chip It]

they do come in a weather proof zippy bag but the one you are talking about is for the next model. Not finished yet. Still a while to go

[rbert Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close rbert]

sbclover
The better fuel consumption on your 1200km trip was that based on actual fuel used or what the dash display was telling you.

Since fitting the chip on mine I got sucked into thinking my fuel economy was better as the reading from the dash display tells me i'm getting 7.7l/100 where my actual fuel usage is 9.9lt/100. The reading before fitting chip would display 9.2lt/100

I found that the higher the tune I tried the better the fuel economy shown on the dash display

[DieselSmart Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close DieselSmart]

good point rbet,

I always ask our customers to tell me what fuel their using by calculating as opposed to those displays on the dash. Those displays always seem to be wrong.

One of our customers had a competitors chip (for those wondering, no it was not a chip it) on his car and it was reading 7.9L per hundred but his actual fuel usage was 13.2.. Very interesting observation. Then fitting our module he went down to 11.4 but his reading on the dash went up to 9.8 or something along those lines.

[krypto Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close krypto]

I fitted the Chipit about 3 weeks ago and I've been running it on tune 5. I recently did a round trip north with the chip installed that I've done previously without the chip

Without chip; 1275kms using 135l = 10.6 l/100km (indicated 9.8l/100km on dash)
With chip; 1270kms using 131l = 10.3 l/100km (indicated 8.8l/100km on dash)

I drove a bit harder and a did bit more dirt work with the chip installed so I'm guessing the chip gave about 5% better fuel economy.

Observations on the ChipIt:
- Much smoother power delivery
- Noticeably better overtaking
- Makes the Prado much nicer to drive
- Gives a ridiculously low fuel consumption reading on the display, mine was already about 10% low before the chip and now its about 25% out.

Its been running trouble free with no starting problems. The only problem was that some wires were crossed on the chip harness when I first received it and which made for some terrible engine noises on the first start-up. ChipIt fixed the wiring harness and no problems since.

[CQ_Prado Member Find all posts View Profile Close CQ_Prado]

nice short review krypto you've sold me.. Chip it it is.

[sbclover Member Find all posts View Profile Close sbclover]

not fuelling up till next friday but will let you know the REAL figures

Sean

[Chip It Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chip It]

thanks Sean

[Chip It Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Chip It]

and thanks for trusting us with your car CQ_Prado. I promise you will have a smile from ear to ear.