Diesel Tuning

Excellent price, considering the gains you'll get !

Assuming they give the same power/torque, you'd be mad to go for the Bromleys for the sake of £70 !

To fit a larger intercooler would be tricky without removal of the air-con condenser/fan, or fitting some gay front bumper. And you'll never make me do that!

I'm still getting problems with the ECU warning light appearing occasionally. Although it isn't affecting the running, the guy at VanAaken said I should get any faults fixed before buying their unit.

VanAaken tell me that they can adjust the unit using a PC if I bring the car to them (several hundred miles from me), the bromleys claims to be adjustable using jumper pins(?). I haven't actually spoken to bromleys on the phone though to find out exactly how this works.

I must however trace the fault on my car first, difficult without an OBD reader. I'm beginning to suspect the vacuum pump is preventing proper operation of the EGR as it doesn't seem to have much suck.

The Dervboy

You're missing the point. I mean you should check how future-proof the unit is - if one of em is completely non-adjustable, then the other one is surely preferable.

He's right - you'd be mad to start tuning an unhealthy car !

So both can be changed then - that's good. I'd be going for the VanAaken :)

Take it to your dealer, and get them to read the fault. Won't cost much, and once you know what it is, you can fix it.

Let us know how you get on in the end - I'm interested !

I'm slightly reluctant to take it to a vauxhall dealer because they screwed up my previous petrol astra by "upgrading" the ECU software in the process of looking for a fault. Apparently this is standard procedure if they can find no other cause of a fault.

The vauxhall dealer I use now is smaller and tends to listen to what I say, but I'm still somewhat cautious.

I did actually book it in once before to be looked at, but the light never came on for several days preceeding the appointment. I phoned them and explained this, they said the fault codes only persist for a certain number of starts/stop cycles and might now have been erased. Needless to say, the light came on again the following day, after I cancelled the appointment!

Intermittent faults are an arse, especially when it can be as much as a week without the fault occurring.

I will keep you posted. It may be some time though unless I can convince the vauxhall dealer to test my car at short notice (i.e. within a day or so of the fault occurring).

The Dervboy

That's ok - if they knacker it, it's upto them to sort it out, and you get a courtesy car while they do so :)

Just take it in now - the fault will be stored in the ECU, for them to read.