REMAP? CHIP?

For my pre 2002 MSB ecu. I have been researching these, it just seems so easy to do.
Is this worth considering leaving all bias to one side?
Is this effectively a remap, chip or electrickary?
Diesel Tuning UK | Select the right tuning system for your car

Just plug and play they say.
Thanks

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Originally Posted by northiam

For my pre 2002 MSB ecu. I have been researching these, it just seems so easy to do.
Is this worth considering leaving all bias to one side?
Is this effectively a remap, chip or electrickary?
Diesel Tuning UK | Select the right tuning system for your car

Just plug and play they say.
Thanks

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It is electrickery, and at that price you'd be far better off getting a BD or TRS ECU.

FWIW I'll be selling my BD ECU once I debrick the new one, probably with-in the next couple of weeks.

Here's my top tip for reflashing: Reformat the card and copy ONLY the .map file you will be uploading. It's worth a shed full of external power supplies.

I discovered today that if the .map has been loaded on a card that already has a bit of junk on it, the remap is almost 100% certain to fail. Same .map on a clean, reformatted card sails through without a hiccup. :angel:

And for the nervous, it's worth noting that a .map upload failure will only brick the ECU if it occurs after the "please wait" that happens with 10% remaining. I had a remap lock up at 50% and I had no problem restarting the process.

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Originally Posted by OffTrack

And for the nervous, it's worth noting that a .map upload failure will only brick the ECU if it occurs after the "please wait" that happens with 10% remaining. I had a remap lock up at 50% and I had no problem restarting the process.

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I have a Defender and I have found that if you follow the menu for a Defender and update the ECU .map file and it fails it will brick the ECU.

Using the Discovery menus it works as you have described. I imagined that the nannocom would use the same process for the disco and defender TD% remapping so I am not sure why I have had the issue with the defender option and not disco. Just so you know it is not a fluke I have repeated the same process at least twice.

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Originally Posted by onesilop

I have a Defender and I have found that if you follow the menu for a Defender and update the ECU .map file and it fails it will brick the ECU.

Using the Discovery menus it works as you have described. I imagined that the nannocom would use the same process for the disco and defender TD% remapping so I am not sure why I have had the issue with the defender option and not disco. Just so you know it is not a fluke I have repeated the same process at least twice.

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I'm not really sure why you'd have different results with Defender and Disco remap apps. As far as I'm aware there is only the on Td5 Map application on the Evo. I'm fairly sure the Defender, Disco Td5, Disco V8, etc sections are used to organise "shortcuts" to the actual apps. Anyway it would be worth reporting to Colin and BBS if it's repeatable.

cheers
Paul