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In my country it's pretty common to remap and modify the ECU settings. For €100 you can have someone remap the fuel injection system to give you more power for
by fy20 3y ago
In my country it's pretty common to remap and modify the ECU settings.
For €100 you can have someone remap the fuel injection system to give you more power for less fuel (VW are notorious for this, you can easily get 25% more power), or you can have environmental features disabled that will end up breaking such as EGR, DPF, AdBlue, etc.
Someone who does it is a friend of a friend, and he drives a Tesla, so I guess it's not a bad business to be in.
- morsch 3y agoI guess we need a licence for car ownership in addition to driving, and that should be a way of losing it.
- maxbond 3y agoOn balance it's probably a good thing for people to be able to modify their cars. We wouldn't want to build a world where you're beholden to the whims of car companies on pain of having your ability to own a car revoked. That would be a recipe for abuse. If people modify their cars in dangerous or illegal ways, that's presumably already a crime they could get their license revoked for.
- sidewndr46 3y agowouldn't an emissions inspection notice this or do they not do that there?
- playingalong 3y agoProbably it varies country by country, but I would guess that road safety rules have some common thresholds of parameters like emissions. And not enforce detoriation when compared to factory state. The latter is probably a natural phenomenon with wear.