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[amba]

Thanks Jimbob..when you say price variations ??lowest ------highest..as cost of fuel to Midlands might out weigh stealers price..just be curios to know what they charge

[Jimbob]

I had mine done by a dealer  

Highest quote was £88.25!
I paid £35!

Have never heard of another dealer being that cheap though.
The harder part was 3 dealers didn't know how or refused to try!

All that said, I would rather have Mark or Jaime do it, as you can trust them!  They will also look for anything else that may want / need doing which Vauxhall wont!
Things like Climate panel, radio's, Instrument panel can all be updated, if they are checked out.
Amazing to watch in the right persons hands.
There are also a few privately owned ones local to me, its shameful to watch them try anything, they just seem frightened of them.

[amba]

Point taken Jimbob...will wait until local/closer meet..thanks for advise.

[thewelshman]

Just had my gearbox and climate control updated by a person who works for the local stealer, and does after work jobs in his mates garage ( who used to work for the same stealer for more than 30 years before going independent ). He "borrows" the Tech 2 plus his laptop from work, charged me £25, plus he checked the engine electics but that was up to date. When he first checked the gearbox, the Tech 2 found 5 faults, after updating from what I believe was version 3 software to version 8, all was well.
After the updates, the only fault thrown up was a bulb on the dash for exhaust emission had blown or removed. I'm very pleased with the work done and more so the cost. One happy bunny.

[mykd2007]

Is it possible to reprogram the gearbox, so that sports mode is actually sporty. For example, it doesnt launch until 4000 rpm in 1st, so I could hold it lightly on the footbrake and smoke the tyres. And no, I'm not normally a hooligan, but sometimes it's just nice to make Saxo driving boy racers jaws drop, as something the weight and size of the QE2 screws them off the lights....

[TheBoy]

Just had my gearbox and climate control updated by a person who works for the local stealer, and does after work jobs in his mates garage ( who used to work for the same stealer for more than 30 years before going independent ). He "borrows" the Tech 2 plus his laptop from work, charged me £25, plus he checked the engine electics but that was up to date. When he first checked the gearbox, the Tech 2 found 5 faults, after updating from what I believe was version 3 software to version 8, all was well.
After the updates, the only fault thrown up was a bulb on the dash for exhaust emission had blown or removed. I'm very pleased with the work done and more so the cost. One happy bunny.

I hope you mean ver 9 or later?

Can you ask him what version of TIS (the release date) he was using?

[thewelshman]

Typo mistake it's version 9

[TheBoy]

Typo mistake it's version 9

Phew!