bsr ppc reprogram ??????

[learoy69]

going to buy one of these but also changing my car in about 12 month
is it poss to take this bit of kit with me and get bsr to reprogram
or am i better waiting tile i get new car
cheers

[soulman]

it wont swop to another car.............you need to wait

[learoy69]

even if its the new vectra when it comes out

[Duncan]

Once you use it on one car it's locked to that car. You can't then take it to another car. BSR won't unlock or reprogram it to go onto another car.

So it's up to you really if you want to get it now and get a years use out of it, or wait until you change cars.

[Maverick]

Actually your all wrong

After a few discussions this week I have found out the following. Although the PPC is married to your own car, it does look like that when you change your car, you will be able to return your PPC to have it re-programmed with the software for your new car, providing they do a re-map for it for a charge of approx £95.

This has to be confirmed but it does look like BSR are looking to do this. I am waiting to here back from LMF who are in talks with BSR about this very subject.

[learoy69]

hope so otherwise i will have to try elsewhere
but would rather go with bsr after all the good reviews on this site

[soulman]

hmmmmmmmmm that would be good if it happened...........but whats stopping you from keeping it on the old car and getting it put on another then ????

[Duncan]

Actually your all wrong

After a few discussions this week I have found out the following. Although the PPC is married to your own car, it does look like that when you change your car, you will be able to return your PPC to have it re-programmed with the software for your new car, providing they do a re-map for it for a charge of approx £95.

This has to be confirmed but it does look like BSR are looking to do this. I am waiting to here back from LMF who are in talks with BSR about this very subject.

Oh excellent!! Good news!! That was always one thing that was a downside. You had to be sure you'd have the car for a while to justify the cost, and even if you changed for a car that BSR did a remap for you had to buy a whole new unit - which isn't small change.

Bluefin can do it with their product, so I always wondered why BSR couldn't, or wouldn't. Looking forward to hearing the developments on this - especially as my next car may very well be a VXR estate. So £95 to get it up to 300bhp would be a bahaaaargain!!

Obviously a requirement would be that the car is returned to standard before you handed the PPC unit over to be re-programmed.

EDIT: Just thought. Given all the Stage 3 kit fitted to my car, it could be a bit tricky to sell it onto anyone without the mapping unit! Oh well, looks like I could be buying a new PPC in the future then! lol

hmmmmmmmmm that would be good if it happened...........but whats stopping you from keeping it on the old car and getting it put on another then ????

I would think you'd need to have the first car returned to standard before having the unit re-programmed. They can tell what the PPC unit last did in terms of mapping.

[learoy69]

you will have to pay them again for remap i guess
but as you keep the tool for inserting the map, your old car if sold could be sold with map on or off and you dont even ever have to tell them its been chipped.
sound good
will check with bsr before i buy one though

[Duncan]

...your old car if sold could be sold with map on or off ...

Wouldn't think so - see above.