APR tune costs

[noone]

I'll bite...

its a smaller market, so the tuners have fewer clients with the same or similar running costs. if every VW on the road were chipped, there would be a lot more demand and the tuners would be more likely to be able to offer lower pricing. If you keep your eyes open you will see differences, dyno results, benefits, issues, etc with tunes. IMO, there is a reason that Polo's are mainly APR, Giac and CC. If I had my time again, I'd go CC, but then again, I'm less interested in 'peace of mind' and more in squeezing all the power out without being silly. Not sure what your local options are in WA.

FYI I think i paid $1700 3 years ago for my APR tune, by contrast CC is now $650 for a stage 1 and while he's not local to you, is an active forum member who is doing more interesting things with his Polo than i have managed to get to.

[tigger73]

APR is good but you're paying for a full service option and a reasonable marketing budget.

I did start to go down CC path, however became problematic when tune file for my car was not straight forward and file needed to get written from "scratch". Car and tuner were no longer in same place and it all got too hard (really not prepared to put an untested flash file in my ECU without a back-up plan).

So in the end I went with Viezu - partly because of hardware (they are the only ones that do DP for Tiguan).

Pluses and minuses for each option. Comes down to personal preference and what your priorities are on performance/$/service/upgrade path/etc.