Originally Posted by
hamish
Hello Volvised,
FYI we are NOT buying any new tunes of Rica and haven't been for a year now. The only Rica tunes I would still use a very tried and tested. It is common knowledge that standard remaps are little different from tuner to tuner. Your mates car you are refering to was remapped by Rica/Adam Weber a for Director of Chip Tuning (which has ceased trading). The only part I had in the tuning of that car was to fit the turbo, exhaust etc. all work that was carried out to a high standard. I also helped operate the dyno when the car was being mapped. I am fairly sure that Adam's emulator wasn't working when he remapped that car (it got damaged in a dyno fire caused by some 'plonker' making his oil pipe out of heater hose!!) so he had to keep removing the chip each time he made a change. I was led to believe that Roel van der Brink was checking his work. I most certainly did not tell your mate to 'F O'. However his father did refer to me as a 'F in C' at the side of the road. HLM and Chip Tuning took/take great lengths to explain to all their customers that we cannot be responsible for the failure of elderly engines however soon after tuning. I didn't see Rica or Adam digging into their pockets to help. I offered to look at the car initially however your mate seemed to think that we should offer a 24 hr nationwide recovery service with every custom map, so the car stayed on the South Coast. This whole episode and the lack of support I recieved from my business partners made me think very seriously about my business arrangements with Rica and Adam. 6 months later we ceased dealings with Rica and Adam resigned. I would like to state at this point that Adam and Roel closed ranks on the details of that map and neither was prepared to give any explanation or financial input with regard the demise of that engine.
My observation is still that surely if an adult approaches you and asks your company to fit a big turbo to his car he is aware that when driven hard it might well have a detrimental effect on the longevity of his 100,000 mile engine and is prepared to accept most of the risk.
Please stop stating that either myself or my own company mapped your mates car it is incorrect.
I have taken on board the events of March 2007 and made changes to ensure as best as I can that it will never happen again. I have always tried to offer good service I am however not prepared to be abused or taken advantage of.
With regard to all those refugees on T5D5 how many of them have got first hand experience of me and my company HLM remapping their cars and then it blowing up as a result in the last year and a half since it's inception? (I'll give you a clue....it's less than 1).
I am certain that the map on your mates car was a reasonable job however to ensure their is no chance of a repeat please accept my assuraces that Chip Tuning Ltd has ceased, and we have deleted Rica.
Also remember that when I started in the Volvo Tuning world the only option prior to our arrival was a bloke in North London selling Dump Valves and Chinese Strut Braces who also swore blind that ECU Upgrades didn't work!!!! I think we have all thankfully moved on from that and the choice is now endless.
Best Regards,
Hamish.