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[Elite Pete]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

[Gwilym]

How Much? How easy to fit?

[STMO123]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

[Elite Pete]

I paid £125 but that was in the sale which ended on the 15th of January but the normal price is £150 and it took about 10 minutes to fit and you just take the ECU out of the fuse/relay box at the side of the battery, undo the cable clip and disconnect the cable, prise back the cover tags and pull the chip out and push the new one in and reverse the process to put everything back.

[MikeDundee]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.

[tunnie]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Should be good for yours STMO, yours is a 2.5 so same engine as pre-facelift.

[Admin]

Yep, has to be said, they are well worth the money.

I am getting one for the MV6 once little things like the MOT are out the way!
I am going to be very interested to see what effect they have with a manual box!  

[tunnie]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.

Not quite correct mate, chips are available for ANY Omega with the following engines:

2.5 / 3.0

Not available for:

2.0 / 2.2 / 2.6 / 3.2

[MikeDundee]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.

Not quite correct mate, chips are available for ANY Omega with the following engines:

2.5 / 3.0

Not available for:

2.0 / 2.2 / 2.6 / 3.2

Mine is 2.6, stand corected

[STMO123]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Should be good for yours STMO, yours is a 2.5 so same engine as pre-facelift.

Thanks Tunnie. I might just treat myself, esp now that Pete has said how easy they sre to fit

[tunnie]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.

Not quite correct mate, chips are available for ANY Omega with the following engines:

2.5 / 3.0

Not available for:

2.0 / 2.2 / 2.6 / 3.2

Mine is 2.6, stand corected

Its something to do with the newer engines which makes them much less 'chip able'  i think Vaux got the most out of them really (2.2 2.6 3.2) although i think this is one for MarksDTM to reply to really...

[tunnie]

Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.

The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car  

Only good for pre facelift?

Should be good for yours STMO, yours is a 2.5 so same engine as pre-facelift.

Thanks Tunnie. I might just treat myself, esp now that Pete has said how easy they sre to fit

No problem, i am condering chipping the Senator too, although I need to de-cat it for that  :-/

[Admin]

Tunnie, you don't need to de-cat the Senator to chip it. We didn't and the difference was impressive (especially over 4krpm!)

[tunnie]

Tunnie, you don't need to de-cat the Senator to chip it. We didn't and the difference was impressive (especially over 4krpm!)

I thought the chips where designed to run without the cats?

[Paul M]

Its something to do with the newer engines which makes them much less 'chip able'  i think Vaux got the most out of them really (2.2 2.6 3.2) although i think this is one for MarksDTM to reply to really...

It's probably more to do with the newer chips being surface mounted rather than socketed, as it's more reliable and cheaper to manufacture. It will have a flashable EEPROM instead that can probably be reprogrammed through the diag socket. So just as "chippable", except you don't do it with a chip . In addition to having the appropriate hardware to do remaps, there are almost certainly some additional obstacles to overcome such as checksums etc. Hence why it's much more common to find replacement chips for socketed ECUs than remaps for EEPROM ones.