You are never too old to go down the silly power path....woops, I mean the Td5 is never too high in km's to benefit from a remap. (-:
The motor needs 100,000 km to run in properly and has an expected life of well over 500,000 kms if serviced when due. In stock form it is well under powered, which is what makes it so reliable.
I added a tuning box (crude form of injecting more fuel) at around 250,000 kms long before a remap became much more affordable and easier to achieve thanks to people like Jose at Td5Inside. The tuning box improved the stock 0-100 time of over 17-18 secs to around 13-14 secs. At around 400,000 kms I upgraded the intercooler and cranked up the tuning box to its max settings. Now does 0-100 in around 11-12 secs. Now at 480,000 kms and yes the manual gearbox needs replacing, the front drive shaft is starting to fail, and it has other unrelated problems, but nothing you would not expect from a 13 year old car approaching the end of it's half life!
And this is all with the original head and turbo as well. There is nothing that has needed replacing on my car that is any different to those running stock motors.
Holding off getting a remap from Td5Inside until I sort the driveline issues out as the pursuit for silly power continues.
Don't waste your time with a rechip if you have or can get a NNN ECU as a remap will allow you to optimise the set up to suit what you want.
And anyone who tells you it will only result in clouds of black smoke - this is rubbish as well, my modified Td5 puts out less smoke under full power than a stock tuned TdV6, so imagine what sort of remap LR did to make the TdV6 perform as it does and my Td5 D2 is quicker than my D3....for now that is..... (-;
"Remapping Turbo Diesels is a Mid-Life Crisis Placebo for Conservative Gentlemen".
