Performance chip for 2004 Touareg V6

[dgary8]

Does anyone know where i can find a good performance chip for my Touareg - 2004 with v6? I am in the US but can order from anywhere. If the is a chip what kind of performance increase can i expect?

[shao_khan]

Welcome to Tyresmoke.

This the V6 petrol or Diesel?

If petrol gains will be limited because NA engines do not benefit much from chip tuning. If its an oilburner then a chip should give you some decent gains in BHP and Torque.

AMD have a branch in the US if I remember rightly they offer stuff for both. www.amdtechnik.com

[Mook]

And the engine is the same as the Golf R32 unit (3.2V6 if yours is the petrol version), so you can make some seriously decent modifications to it, right up to 300+ bhp if you can go to the Stage 4 conversion.

[dgary8]

It is a gasoline V-6. I will check out the site thanks.

[R32North]

Its not a chip you order and stick in...... its a remap to the existing software, so you pop along, have a cup of tea and wait while they twiddle and tweak your existing code and you drive away with some extra power!!

Other companies do 'chips' but re-maps are a better option as they don't require the ECU to be pulled apart and you can always switch back to stock from a remap where as a replacement chip is usually much more difficult to revert back from.

[Mook]

Because of the distances involved, most US tuning companies offer an ECU swap-out deal. I don't reckon I'd travel to Scotland (no I'm not being cheeky Brett - I'm from the Borders originally!) just to get the remap done, so if that's where AmD (or whoever) was based, then I'd choose the swap-out ECU option.