Hi,
I've been scouring the web for remapping tools eg kwp2000 plus etc, but none of them seem to list the 1.6FSI as supported.
Does anyone know which tool (if any) will do this? I'm fairly competent with computers and programming - I should be, it's my job - so want to get in there and mess with settings etc. (although one with some tuned files would also be good, so I can see how they've done it etc)
Don't know which tool to use though.
There seems to be tons out there for the TDI models, but nothing for the 1.6FSI.
Look forward to your suggestions!
If you really want to have a go try looking for a Galetto 1260 - These are cheap chinese knock off's of the original Galetto 1250 manufactured in Italy.
The 1250 was a really good tool for starting out with a few years ago but had fairly limited protocols and applications. The current crop of 1260 Clones (well some of them) have had an updated interface and protocol list. Most of them should cover the Bosch ME7 ECU in your car. Of course, being chinese and cheap means that they don't always do what they say they can and any kind of quality is purely by chance. I bought one out of interest a couple of years ago and successfully used it on an EDC15 and an ME7 I had lying around, one direct pinned on the bench and the other via OBD - just to see really. They are quite basic ECU's and ideal for starting out on.
Just make sure you have charging voltage and all 'drains' turned off before trying a read or write. If voltage drops below 12.1 - you'll be in trouble!
Please understand though that the tool is only a unit for extracting and loading the map back into the ECU. You'll need a seperate file adjusting program like Tunerpro or Winols etc. Winols is by far the most popular and is fairly easy to master if you are used to logic and hex decimal tables. The most difficult thing is understanding the 'map'. Which is actually made up of multiple 'maps' overlayed into a load / result web mosaic. Each map is individualy calibrated / tuned before being collated and loaded back into the car. A major problem is identifying which map is responsible for which part of the tuning process .... i.e which is responsible for fuel pressure, injection timing / duration, spark timing / duration etc etc etc.
But, that's part of the fun ... isn't it?
Good luck!
Oh! forgot to mention, you need to know how to tune a car aswell .... nearly forgot but quite important
