Splash
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So I took a punt on one of these last week. I'd seen loads of videos on them and wondered if the claims could be true.
It arrived this morning fresh off the UPS van. Took 10 mins to install (and 5 of those where so the electronics in the car could shut down before installation.) Installed it and tucked the unit in under the steering column. I decided to do the mode changes via the Bluetooth app so I can keep the cabin clean of wires and dongles.
I waited for the traffic to calm down this evening and took the car for a spin with my able co driver (the wife) on mode changing duties. Covered about 80 miles around some of my favourite local roads, straights, tight bends, sweeping bends, fast bends and technical sections.
I tried out all of the 4 modes (Eco, City, Sport and Sport+) and some of the 32 sensitivity settings (8 per mode, 4 minus and 4 plus for each one.) Add to that sport on the gear box and sport+ on the drive mode of the car and there are lots of combos to play with. (No I don't use race, I like nannies, they keep me the right way up)
Eco makes the car feel slow, you soreally need to press the throttle for her to respond. I didn't spend much time on that one, but that is really about fuel saving. I've read that's good for bad weather, snow and the like.
City. Spent far more time here, really liked the feel of the car at plus 3 and 4. Throttle was pretty much instant, with the gear box in S she really started to shift. Throttle was easy to modulate and control. You just need far less of it. I think this will be great for daily driving.
Sport. Really got interesting in sport. Really feel like I need an open road for that. Powered round one of my favourite corners that leads to healthy length of straight tarmac and she just flew. Indeed reached the fastest I'd even gone on one particular straight. When I hit my normal braking point I was a good 10 to 15% faster, I think my new tyres saved me in the next bend. As they provided the grip to stay on the right side of the road. I knew the road was clear because the road has good sight lines. Could be a little too sensitive for daily, in traffic, driving. But on a spirited early Sunday morning that could be just the ticket.
Sport+. This could be very brown trousery. I didn't spend much time here TBH. So much response it was a little difficult to modulate. Just practice I guess, but not sure just yet. She wanted to go everytime I showed my foot to the throttle and I mean go akin to taking your hifi volume from 10 to 100 in a nano second.
Still need to do more testing to dial it in but early impressions are that the car is "awake now". City plus 4 and sport at plus 1 feel like my natural home.
All in all, I'm pretty impressed for a first run out. I'm sure some of you tuned guys won't need it. I'll look for a tune, once I'm out of warranty as this doesn't leave traces of anything in the ECU.
EDIT: I've added some thoughts further down after some more testing over the weekend.
It arrived this morning fresh off the UPS van. Took 10 mins to install (and 5 of those where so the electronics in the car could shut down before installation.) Installed it and tucked the unit in under the steering column. I decided to do the mode changes via the Bluetooth app so I can keep the cabin clean of wires and dongles.
I waited for the traffic to calm down this evening and took the car for a spin with my able co driver (the wife) on mode changing duties. Covered about 80 miles around some of my favourite local roads, straights, tight bends, sweeping bends, fast bends and technical sections.
I tried out all of the 4 modes (Eco, City, Sport and Sport+) and some of the 32 sensitivity settings (8 per mode, 4 minus and 4 plus for each one.) Add to that sport on the gear box and sport+ on the drive mode of the car and there are lots of combos to play with. (No I don't use race, I like nannies, they keep me the right way up)
Eco makes the car feel slow, you soreally need to press the throttle for her to respond. I didn't spend much time on that one, but that is really about fuel saving. I've read that's good for bad weather, snow and the like.
City. Spent far more time here, really liked the feel of the car at plus 3 and 4. Throttle was pretty much instant, with the gear box in S she really started to shift. Throttle was easy to modulate and control. You just need far less of it. I think this will be great for daily driving.
Sport. Really got interesting in sport. Really feel like I need an open road for that. Powered round one of my favourite corners that leads to healthy length of straight tarmac and she just flew. Indeed reached the fastest I'd even gone on one particular straight. When I hit my normal braking point I was a good 10 to 15% faster, I think my new tyres saved me in the next bend. As they provided the grip to stay on the right side of the road. I knew the road was clear because the road has good sight lines. Could be a little too sensitive for daily, in traffic, driving. But on a spirited early Sunday morning that could be just the ticket.
Sport+. This could be very brown trousery. I didn't spend much time here TBH. So much response it was a little difficult to modulate. Just practice I guess, but not sure just yet. She wanted to go everytime I showed my foot to the throttle and I mean go akin to taking your hifi volume from 10 to 100 in a nano second.
Still need to do more testing to dial it in but early impressions are that the car is "awake now". City plus 4 and sport at plus 1 feel like my natural home.
All in all, I'm pretty impressed for a first run out. I'm sure some of you tuned guys won't need it. I'll look for a tune, once I'm out of warranty as this doesn't leave traces of anything in the ECU.
EDIT: I've added some thoughts further down after some more testing over the weekend.
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