Dear All,

In my fourth week of being a RRS owner, which I must admit to having some mixed emotions as I used to own a Disco3 which was such a versatile truck.

Will take me a while to get used to lack of space inside the cabin.

Decided to load up with goodies instead of going for a TDV8 with minimal toys. Ordered a Rimini Red with Alpaca leather, Sunroof, Nav, Premium Stereo, Xeons, Fridge, Rear DVD, Phone PTI, and TV!

Having driven the new car from Melbourne to our new home in Brisbane it is well and truly run-in.

One thing I would like is more power, and instead of getting a divorce to allow me to trade it in for a TDV8, I was hoping there might be someone I could get my RRS chipped in Brisbane.

Anyone out their

Cheers,

Andrew

I did the opposite and bought a TDV8 with no options but metallic paint and i have not regretted it. I had a sunroof in my old car that i probably used 2 times in 5 years. Its horses for courses i suppose, i am going to spend the $6k that the nav cost (should be standard) to buy 22in stormers (best mod) catback exhaust, colour code and a few other odds and ends. Better bang for your buck.

Down the track the plan is to integrate a custom aftermarket nav unit with backup camera, ipod and phone into my RRS for about half the cost of landrover option. All in the master plan. 'Don't hand over your hard earned without a hard fight'. BTW the TDV8 is awesome in both usable power (torque) and supple sporty ride with pedigree and prestige thrown in and i just love it.

Type in Diesel chip on the internet and you will see a few places that do it.

alowson wrote:

Dear All,

In my fourth week of being a RRS owner, which I must admit to having some mixed emotions as I used to own a Disco3 which was such a versatile truck.

Will take me a while to get used to lack of space inside the cabin.

Decided to load up with goodies instead of going for a TDV8 with minimal toys. Ordered a Rimini Red with Alpaca leather, Sunroof, Nav, Premium Stereo, Xeons, Fridge, Rear DVD, Phone PTI, and TV!

Having driven the new car from Melbourne to our new home in Brisbane it is well and truly run-in.

One thing I would like is more power, and instead of getting a divorce to allow me to trade it in for a TDV8, I was hoping there might be someone I could get my RRS chipped in Brisbane.

Anyone out their

Cheers,

Andrew

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Hi Andrew,
Was your disco3 a tdv6 as well?? if so, did you perceive any power difference??
I drove a disco3 demo with 7k on the clock and a rrs tdv6 with 2k on the clock...and the disco had more go...
i wonder if that was because it was well run in...??

I went down the same route as you, optioned up a tdv6 (still waiting for mine though), so i might be having the same power pangs as you have...

alowson wrote:

I actually felt the opposite, even though my D3 had covered 85,000km and very well run in I thought the brand new RRS was more nimble and responsive.

Considered the TDV8 option but glad I didn't. got the TDV6 ( & six points in the first week mind you from the uber friendly perth cops) & chipped it from a German company www.abrieb.de it's the second diesel chip I habe purchased from them & it's great, smooths out the mid range, increases acceleration & generaly, around town I'm getting under 10's for fuel economy, why would you spend the extra on the V8 when believe me, its still extremely easy to use your license in the V6 with the chip !!!!!!!

Seriously, the $400 was well worth it, & the wife agreed once she saw the fuel savings with the last diesel mod chip.

extra 35 ish BHP....do it ! 08 TDV6 stornaway alpaca Chipped overfinch tiger & happy !

Oh....Forgot to mention The chip fits in about 3 minutes, plug & play & yes you really do notice the difference

Hope it helps your decision making  08 TDV6 stornaway alpaca Chipped overfinch tiger & happy !

Hi guys

I know there are many variables, eg. fuel type, age of vehicle etc., but I can tell you in good faith that a remapped TDV6 D3 will run with a standard TDV8 RRS if the driver catches you napping. OK this is at 1500m altitude, but I expect it would be about the same anywhere.
Since the TDV8 was remapped, the TDV6 has no chance though...

I usually drive a TDV6 D3 a couple of days a week, but often have the good fortune to drive the TDV8 RRS when the missus is away, which is fairly often, and I am always a bit surprised at the difference between the two vehicles in performance and handling. I don't think they compete for the same market at all - ie. I don't see us taking the RRS serious offroading, and if we go for along drive on the highway the RRS is the natural choice.

There are many many power upgrade / fuel economy options available, and I am very subjective about this

JSI wrote:

Oh....Forgot to mention The chip fits in about 3 minutes, plug & play & yes you really do notice the difference

Hope it helps your decision making

Hi Tastech, ok, the chip fits inline with the sensor plug at the end of the common rail, for my Mercedes, there is no power supply required & the chip literally plug in and out in about 10 seconds, with the RRS you have a very simple wiring loom that has a + & - cable which connects to appropriate terminals of the battery & a male & female plug , simply unplug the cable from the end of the common rail, plug the wiring loom in, connect the plug back into the wiring loom and in my case, the loom is long enough for the chip box to sit nicely on top of the battery, under cover.

The fitting as I said, only takes about 3 minutes including connecting +&- to the battery & works purely on software, as soon as you remove the unit, you feel the power drop instantly & the dealer knows nothing, simply connect back in when you get the car back, seriously, it is that easy. The best bit is it just smooths out the power flow through the rev range & GIVES BETTER FUEL ECONOMY, as I said before, my average is always under 10L per 100K, as far as torque goes, I can only go by the figures quoted to me which I think from memory are about 60NM increase !!!!! I'm now running around 230BHP from my TDV6 & would recommend to anyone, First purchase was on ebay for my merc a couple of years ago & this time was direct from the manufacturer in Germany, www.abrieb.de & follow the links to Land Rover, trust me......it's the best mod I think you can do on your car.....apart from 22's of course ! 08 TDV6 stornaway alpaca Chipped overfinch tiger & happy !

I admit, I know stuff all about this and I am not even sure that I want to do anything but but does anyone have any experience of the tunit system?

Cheers