The modern market offers car owners a variety of options for increasing the capacity of the standard powertrain. The most popular among them is chip tuning. How does this work and what you need to know when choosing a shop?
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Chip tuning is a tuning operation of the electronic component by adjusting the internal management programmes. Usually this term is used to refer to adjusting the program control unit power unit of the vehicle to increase power. In addition, chip-tuning can be attributed to the use of additional electronic components to solve similar problems.
In simple language, using this procedure, it becomes possible release of the hidden reserve capacity available at any car assembled in the factory. Existing hidden reserve capacity due to a number of requirements for vehicles in different countries. To achieve the producers have to set certain trims and produce similar products.
As mentioned above, most often to the chip-tuning seek to increase the power. In addition, using this procedure, you can have an impact on fuel consumption and make changes in the basic equipment of the vehicle, for example, during installation of the turbine, new injectors and other components.
Holding the chip-tuning can be divided into several stages:
  1. [] Read the underlying software (firmware) of the on-board computer.
    [] Basic Adjustment and correction of its checksums.
    [] Write the updated firmware to the onboard computer memory.
The first and third stages are quite similar and can be done in several ways. The selection of method depends on the capacity and type of the on-Board computer, but also from the technical capabilities of the tuners. Today is very popular to hold read and write basic programs via the diagnostic connector, without dismantling the onboard computer. This possibility is supported by the onboard car computer, released in 1998. At this time, the majority automakers start implementing controllers control units electrically programmable flash memory. When reading program through the connector are fairly simple hardware and does not require maintenance personnel knowledge.
Edit firmware is a key stage. Most of the staff themselves do not edit the resulting file and record it and send them to the companies engaged in the editing area of the firmware.
The final result depends on how well the editing firmware specialist knows the specific car model. It should be noted, and the fact that the hardware and software tools for quality perform this operation extremely difficult to acquire.
The results of the chip-tuning.
If you have a qualitatively maximum capacity increase is observed in the atmospheric power units. In this case, the power increase can reach 35-40%. After correction firmware, designed to increase power, usually somewhat reduced fuel consumption.
The main disadvantages of chip-tuning
The negative point is that it quite often disrupted catalytic systems of the vehicle responsible for the stewardship of exhaust gases (most widespread this phenomenon is observed during chip-tuning mass models of cars).