They are often the ‘go-to’ of upgrading, as they’re relatively simple, easily accessible online or through performance shops, and in some instances when supplied as a complete kit can be installed by you. Plug-and-play ‘Chips’ are the easiest and simplest option. Piggyback Tuning: Plug-and-Play Tune Chip It’s time then that we do more than scratch the surface and have a look at both options in more detail. With such a smorgasboard of tuning options available to the market making the right decision to power up your 4×4 has never been more confusing, nor, in-reality more full of potentially risky decisions. While the concept of ‘re-flashing’ the factory software isn’t something new to the performance car market, it is indeed a relatively new concept for the 4×4 arena, as heavy software security which kept Flash Tuners out of the diesel computers innards have been ‘cracked’, allowing relatively free access to the vehicles native operating system and code. Then out of left-field over the last 18 months there has come a new player, the ‘Flash Tune’. Like most popular automotive trends though the market has been overrun by a plethora of cheap options that have ridden the wave of successful quality chips, and left enthusiasts with a certain murkiness to the process of picking the right tuning solution that will not only deliver the claimed gains, but do so without causing potentially major reliability issues. There is good reason that the process of ‘Chipping’ has become popular too, as in a lot of instances they do in fact deliver the claimed gains and generally increase the fun-factor and towing power of your 4×4.
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