Help Help Help 48kw

[BeEnAr]

^^^^^^^^^^ That's right, start your car and disconnect the battery, what happens... Nothing, it keeps running, unless your alternator is rooted!

[shotter]

Im not sure. The only thing he said was something about the ECU going back to the battery and not the alternator. The only problem i have is if i winge too much he could easily change a few figures in the ecu and either detune it, or make it a time bomb waiting to happen. I think this time as times in the past when i have been burnt by workshops is to just pay it and never go there again.

[Bond]

Let him do what he wants......get it tuned somewhere else after u pick it up!!!! You might find that other places dont charge very much for a tune!!!

[TTT]

jesus..

just say that is ALOT more than you thought and would like to know what the breakdown of the bill is.

[EFI Performance]

Wow.

It pay's to use a shop with GOOD DIAGNOSTIC skill's then doesnt it.

[shotter]

Oh hell yea. I am so pissed i took my car to a muppet workshop.

[shotter]

[shotter]

Here is the dyno sheets that $1000 of tuning got me.

And it's only running 12psi. They said they pushed the boost up but it didn't make much more power. Does this sound like B/S? The engine has forgies in it and the turbo is bigger than stock with a steel wheel. I have pushed it to 16 psi and it felt like it had much more power than 12psi. And i dont know where they pulled the 168.9kw run out off. it was making 200kw when i got there... The usuall tricks to make the figures look better. So please people that see dyno sheets all the time please tell me what you think about these.

[mickey]

best to list the parts you've got in there and what tune you're running on.

It's one of those things where I think the workshop will be able to justify the bill because of the amount of time spent on your car. But that's why the advice has been to take it to another workshop, because these guys may lack the experience. It could be that they took 5 hours to find a problem that would take another workshop 1 hour. So best to part ways me thinks.

[shotter]

Yea i will NEVER EVER go back to these muppets. I do understand that time is money and yea they could justify there time and the cost. The thing that has pissed me off the most is there was no communication!!! They kept telling me that they will look after me and that it wont cost much at all.

The mods are FMIC, electronic boost controller, turbo has been rebuilt and made bigger and a steel wheel. I think it's rated at 450hp now. bigger fuel pump, haltech interceptor. engine rebuilt with forgies.

[shotter]

Well i paid the bill and picked up the car. So pissed off at the company. But i have to admit the car does run well. Not $2200 worth but it is good. And i found out that dyno time was charged at around $235 and hour

[PM-R33]

Holy sh*t!!! $2200 to fix that problem and tune the car to 168kw!?!?! That is f**ked!

[BeEnAr]

$235 an hour!! FARK!!! I thought going rate was about half that

[Bond]

Shit that is a high rate. So did you actually ask them the real reason why your car made no [power and it took so long to fix??

[EFI Performance]

So $235 per hr and they couldnt even find that it had a bad earth proplem???

Do any of you boy's/girl's get pre dyno check's done before your tune???

We do battery, power to coil, power to fuel pump and fuel flow/pressure check's before every run and add it into the bill.

Best to sort these issue's out before you waste 20-30min's to strap it down and end up with no result.

[DRIFTER]

thats a really good idea.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

ohh emm eff gee

[R32 project]

visit your lawyer

[nIsMo86]

$2200 for crappy diag and tune? What a jip!! Sorry to hear they are hopeless shotter.

Is this a performance workshop or a general mechanics type place?

[Dabro]

Bet there isnt a person on this site who would not have wasted days trying to find that problem. How many people who have a car that suddenly drops 150kw have a first thorght of "I wonder if the the battery terminal did it"???? The guy probably didnt charge you for half the time he wasted on it trying to diagnose someones else's substandard work. Dont forget that you now have a car that is running sweet and has had everthing on it checked and double checked. Regardless of wether you planned to spent that money or not its not wasted!! Another point to remember is if you change workshops now there is a real good chance that the first time you have a problem your NEW!! workshop will be charging you AGAIN!! to check things that you just paid this guy to do. He on the other hand will be know your car very well. No I do not have a workshop and dont know the car or the workshop from this thread. Just my two cents on a subject where it seems that most of the advise given to you is based on other people knowing everthing and your mechanic supposedly knowing nothing. Niether of these two things are true so try not to judge too unfairly.