GT Chip - What happens with my warranty after chip installation?

Chip-tuning modifies the processes, which take place in the steel heart of car. We all know that service centers are very jealous to any intervention in the vehicle. That’s why many drivers, who want to improve their cars using chip-tuning, hesitate on account of potential warranty problems. Are the right or wrong? There is no unique answer to this question. Let's have a closer acquaintance with the details of chip-tuning procedure to find out the truth. There are to principal approaches to this procedure. The first one is so called “remapping”. Highly qualified technician connect your car to the PC, downloads all the information from its ECU and then replaces it with new operating protocols. He doesn’t install any additional electronic modules. If everything is done right, there is a significant change in the engine power output characteristics. At first glance everything seems to be perfect, isn’t it? Unfortunately, there are some drawback. First of all, if new mapping protocols were chosen incorrectly, it results in severe engine malfunction or even in destruction of its parts. Secondly, service center staff has lots of ways to detect such intervention to the ECU and call off the warranty.

The second type of chip-tuning is a connecting of new control unit to the car’s ECU. It doesn’t have such dangerous potential risks as the first one. Additional unit just modifies electronic data obtained from different sensors, making ECU provide more fuel to the engine or enlarge the duration of fourth stroke. These changes lead to power and torque increase. As a rule, it is very simple to equip the car with the chip-box and it can be also easily removed before visiting to service station. It leaves no sign of presence in the ECU memory, and the warranty remains valid.

It takes less than an hour to install GT Chip on almost any car model and requires only general skills in the field of electricity.

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Fabio
My car is Toyota Land Cruiser and it’s very difficult to find chip-box for this model. Unlike other units, GT Chip has perfectly fitted operating protocols of my ECU. After a little more than 250 km of driving, the behavior of my car has changed for better. From my personal point of view, it moves smoother and with better acceleration in the low range of RPMs. The annoying jerks, which appeared when I turned on my car and started to drive after cold night, has also disappeared.
Anton
Three month had passed since I bought GT Chip. I didn’t manage to mount it properly from the first try, but I just haven’t look to the instructions. And after I had read the manual, I installed the device just in twenty minutes! This device works perfectly. Now I can upshift to the 4th gear right directly from the second one and my steel horse speeds up from 0 to 100 km/hr speed 1 second faster than before. GT Chip has really tuned my!
Christoph
I was persuaded to order buy GT Chip my colleague. And I have no regrets about it. I like to do everything by myself, so I didn’t ask for any help to install GT Chip. The entire procedure is well described in the manual, it is understandable even for the person with no specific skills in the field of electronics, and there were no difficulties. However, the main issue is not easy mounting but driving improvement. I must say, there are great alterations in me car behavior. It obtained better responsiveness to the acceleration pedal. This effect is markedly seen in lower RPM ranges. I do not pay much attention to fuel consumption decrease. The main thing is that my Opel has become more alive!
A1
With GT Chip my vehicle obtained new level of drivability. Now to get acceleration I just have to make a light push on the pedal and I’m speeding up immediately. All problems with my automatic transmission have also vanished. This is very good addition to standard ECU of my car! I have not much driving experience with GT Chip installed and due to that can’t provide any information about changes in my engine appetite. Unfortunately, there are only few service stations in my region and none of them offers the procedure of power and torque measurement. That’s why, I’m not able to tell you the exact values of their increase. Nevertheless, from my point of view the changes are significant.