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Hmmm, I'm removing it. I'll half-agree with your statement, because it is easy to remove...

Ollie wrote:Yeah, you can speak to Andrew at Prodieselchip. We use them on all our diesel cars. Very easy to fit and worth it.

Sorry for not replying earlier, was away on business and got sidetracked into other interests. Sorry to hear that. I get about 1000km on a tank in & around town on the caddy and i can really feel the difference with & without it. Maybe its just more noticeable at the Gauteng altitude.

No problemo. Wow, you must drive a lot more sensibly than I do!

I am curious what setting you have your's on (you can see by removing the rubber cap and looking with a torch), although I tried a few different ones. The behaviour is different for each, but as far as I can see, they just move the power band around the rev range. I do hate how it makes the engine sound/vibrate at low revs though.

I may speak to Andrew at some point, but after reading quite a bit more about "diesel tuning boxes", I'm not really a "believer" in this kind of tech any more...

I have been playing around with the setting. I had it set on 3 and then moved it to 5. I don't really carry weight in the panel van, so i suppose that helps as well. I find it smoother on setting 3 though, but more bottom end grunt on 5. Most of my travels are on main arteries through town, so doing about 80-100 km/h. I believe that is where the chip is most beneficial. I don't think it has any improvement on open road traveling. My best consumption was 4,1l/100 km on about 200km round trip, but it seems to average out at about 5,4 on a tank.

Hmmm, be aware that your dash fuel consumption readings will no longer be accurate (they will show lower than actual readings). The dash readings measure what the ECU thinks it's using fuel-wise. The box manipulates (increases) that signal before it gets to the injectors. Only real way to measure is to do top-up to top-up fuel reading from the pump and calculate from odometer.

1000Kms off a tank is impressive, even if the readings might be a bit off. Maybe I'll give the thing a shot again, as in Cape Town, I'm getting more like 700Kms off a tank. That's with not much freeway driving and a lot of stop-start and hills.

I went as high as 7 on the settings, which was great for low-rev power on dirt roads, but not so good for freeway overtaking. I saw another unit online somewhere that had a remote fob to switch programs (or off altogether). I wish this one had something like that....