Thread: Bruce davis chip upgrade

havent you lernt your lesson with your old D2??

cheers phil

ps, i think its autologic?

Bruce used to use Autologic...

Whether or not he runs a Byteshooter or Rovacom as well I couldnt say.

I know he also does direct Eprom programming on bench for older versions and has a tech guy on staff to do his programming work.


What are you looking to achieve??? The method of programming is less critical than the programming itself

Well, I was gonna get a toombie upgrade at some point, then yesterday out of the blue, BD's assistant phones me up just to check how things are. I asked her if she wanted to know my story or not and so I spilled the beans on what happened before. In short I got an upgrade from him for $800 and the car was blowing balls of smoke, so I took it back and he put a pretty much standard chip back in. So I had about the same chip as before just $800 later, and I felt a bit 'done in' by all of this.
At that point he said all he can do is a intercooler upgrade and air flow meter replacement $2500. Any way, 2 min after I had a chat with his assistant he called me to apologise and offered me a free upgrade on the defender.
Like disco white said, have I not learned... well if he has a good program I may consider it, just doing my homework this time...

Is the autologic good enough?

If I had the $$ I would send it to toombie!

If I haven't got my wires crossed the R&D guy (Brett) who worked with these for Davis has now moved to sunnier climes aka Brisbane and goes by the name of Syntek. Welcome to Syntek

does the autologic have different levels, I don't want to go to the highest mapping, just a medium would be fine

gee...your in IT you should understand this better than me!
the autologic is just the interface, it puts the program onto the ECU. as tombie said its the actuall program that he uses thats the issue,,,or has been.... so if an autologic/testbook/rovacom or nanocom is used thats not the issue.

just save you dollars and get tombie to email you the upgrade via email then upload it yourself via a nanocom...

spose this is the part where you tell me you dont have a nanocom

cheers phil

After my experiences with D2TD5 and wife’s VWgolf TDi...

Go to tombie, the service is what completes the whole package, I've heard so many times of people not happy with BD (and I know there are many who are) that are either out of pocket and the car is back to standard or are charged a ton extra to attempt to fix the problem.

As mentioned above there is many different ways to get the program on to the ECU, but it’s the quality and compatibility of the program that’s important. And that is what needs to be corrected if needed.

Originally Posted by discowhite

gee...the autologic is just the interface, it puts the program onto the ECU. as tombie said its the actuall program that he uses thats the issue,,,or has been.... so if an autologic/testbook/rovacom or nanocom is used thats not the issue.

Not being in IT I have the autologic upgrade and it made a noticeable difference and actually improved (lowered) fuel consumption.

I believe they make varying levels of upgrade. I when for the one which maximised torque & power but didn’t require the bigger inter cooler.

Now that I’ve taken the EGR off the cat converter and center pipe goes like a rocket and pulls like a train.