too good to be true?

Hi there - new on here - taking deilvery of my new TD4 Freestyle 3dr Auto on Saturday and looking forward to it.

Please excuse the repitition if this has already been discussed on here but has anybody any experience of http://45zs.info/75Zt/R75tu3.htm these.

Any info, experiences would be gratefully rec'd - look a bit too good to be true (and my cynical experience says that means they usually are!!)

Cheers

Stu

kazillions of variants of these available. some work nicely and bump the power / torque curves up nicely, others will be ropey. risk you take really. cant be specific as i've never used them, then again i'm used to tuning japanese cars and swear by rolling road tuning or live mapping rather than preset chips and fuel maps

I toyed with the idea of chipping my V6 taking it from 176bhp to over 200bhp. Reason I chose not to was all down to the gearbox. I have the auto step tronic and was worried the extra torque would cause premature wear and failure of an all ready fragile box. Nice to have the extra power but I'd like my gearbox to live a long life

You reckon the auto-boxes to be weak then??

Well when I picked my Freelander up from Land Rover specialist I asked about the auto gearboxes in the V6 Freelanders. The mechanic said they're not the best and didn't reconmend increasing the power of the engine. I do know that a recon gearbox would cost me around the £2k mark. Do I want to risk damaging my gearbox? I think not.
If you're willing to take the chance then best of luck. Let us know the difference in performance and economy too

Hi,

My Td4 has been chiptuned for 4 years now and done over 40.000 kms with it, chip was taken out, reprogrammed by a specialized (mainly BMW) tuner and put on the board again. Went from 112bhp to 142 bhp and torque went up to 310Nm, mine is a Steptronic (Jatco autobox) as well and I have the impression that both the engine and the box do love (not like but really love) the extra power and the extra torque, everything is running much smoother and gearchanges very swift. The tuner told me he kept all the safety devices intact and that I can drive the car as if nothing was done to it. Love still every day I drive it, a real dream to be on the road with it. As for the powerboxes I've heard all kind of info. about but the main tendancy is that these boxes just fool the computer by passing incorrect values to have the engine get more fuel and hence more power. Difficult thing (back in 2001 not for me as I was not aware at all of the existence of these powerboxes, thus ...as far as I knew I had only one option ) to decide what to do, but I personally am still glad I decided to have it done. Of course not doing many kilometers as the car has now 5 years (from 9th jan 2001) and have done some 49.800 kms now so will have to wait how everything behaves over the years. (Hope to keep the car as long as possible, objective was 10-15 years).
Good luck with the car and whatever you decide to do or not to do.

outlander said:

has anybody any experience of http://45zs.info/75Zt/R75tu3.htm these.

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There's been a long discussion about various options at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freelanderclub/ and I think you can see the archive messages by following the link.

Cheers

Blippie

GO FOR IT BLIPPIE, you can be our official tester
if its rubbish, we wont get one

Personally, I think the TD4 has all the power it needs - 110bhp from a 2.0 litre compared with the Defender's 111BHP 2.5 litre Tdi. We regularly tow a 15hh horse trailer and it is a smooth towing platform with adequate power. I think if we towed a caravan then we might want a little extra.

Nebertheless, I'd give some though to upping the power of our 98 CT Freelander. The Perkins Prima diesel is stout and has a reputation of being bombproof... However it isn't very exciting once you have driven the TD4.

That said, it's really good fun, and I get my driving thrills elsewhere!

I'll keep the money in my pocket for now.

Cheers

Blippie