[snawaz]

Spoke to Mike from DMS today. Said he had re-mapped the 335d last week and details and a write-up would be in next months BMW Magazine. I wanted to clarify a few things with him and generally was very happy with his response but, when I asked about price he quoted me £850+vat, that's nearly £1000. I mentioned E90POST and he said there's a 25% discount if you come down to Southampton or 10% discount if he came out to you. That's an outrageous price if you ask me.

I also asked him if he would do me a printout of the re-map, to which he replied he wouldn't. I must say I found this a little surprising, so I said I wanted the printout to show my friends, hoping an excuse might pursuade him to do a printout. He said he would but it would cost me another £350.

I feel like i'm being taken for a ride with these 2 responses. What do people think?

I also spoke to Simon from E-map who quoted less than half the price of DMS.

[booforty]

Maybe we could organise a group remap at UK4 if enough 335d's are up for it? Viv could negotiate a big group discount again?

[ZiM]

like i've mentioned before, the exact procedure for 100% success with the 335d is yet to be determined... a lot of the ecus are still being killed.

i think its better to wait until the proces is fullproof before deciding to risk your 35(+) grand car on the procedure... i for one am definately going to wait until simon at e-maps is happy to do it, at the end of the day its the same equipment, just different overheads causing the price difference...

[NFS]

Originally Posted by snawaz

Spoke to Mike from DMS today. Said he had re-mapped the 335d last week and details and a write-up would be in next months BMW Magazine. I wanted to clarify a few things with him and generally was very happy with his response but, when I asked about price he quoted me £850+vat, that's nearly £1000. I mentioned E90POST and he said there's a 25% discount if you come down to Southampton or 10% discount if he came out to you. That's an outrageous price if you ask me.

I also asked him if he would do me a printout of the re-map, to which he replied he wouldn't. I must say I found this a little surprising, so I said I wanted the printout to show my friends, hoping an excuse might pursued him to do a printout. He said he would but it would cost me another £350.

I feel like i'm been taken for a ride with these 2 responses. What do people think?

I also spoke to Simon from E-map who quoted less than half the price of DMS.

Just checked - DMS quoted me £795 plus VAT for my 530d with the same discounts a year ago. So this seems in line with their pricing.

I'm suprised about the dyno printout though. I would have expected this as part of the service, otherwise how do you know what you have bought.

[snawaz]

Originally Posted by ZiM

like i've mentioned before, the exact procedure for 100% success with the 335d is yet to be determined... a lot of the ecus are still being killed.

i think its better to wait until the proces is fullproof before deciding to risk your 35(+) grand car on the procedure... i for one am definately going to wait until simon at e-maps is happy to do it, at the end of the day its the same equipment, just different overheads causing the price difference...

Simon sounded like a stand-up guy. Very good advise, and said he would only do it when he felt it was safe to do so. He asked me to phone him back in a week or two for progress.

We didn't discuss discount, but i'm sure he would come down on his initial figure and certainly as a group re-map we would get a really good deal.

[snawaz]

Originally Posted by needforspeed

Just checked - DMS quoted me £795 plus VAT for my 530d with the same discounts a year ago. So this seems in line with their pricing.

I'm suprised about the dyno printout though. I would have expected this as part of the service, otherwise how do you know what you have bought.

This is what I thought. He said "I gaurantee you'll like the difference". But like you say without the printout how do you know what you are getting.

I'm gonna wait for Simon at E-map.

[Cafe.Racer]

Probably a really old question, but a search didn't really help me:

How are BMW Dealers/BMW UK with remaps and warranty claims etc?

I don't suppose any Dealers might offer remaps (I know some VAG dealers do)?

[silverbmwz3]

When I emailed mike about 535d DMS he said it varies amongst dealers - some like some don't want the cars with it on.

It is apparently undetectable by dealers anyway.

[red355]

Originally Posted by ZiM

like i've mentioned before, the exact procedure for 100% success with the 335d is yet to be determined... a lot of the ecus are still being killed.

That suggests that the 335D brain is different to the 330D...

is that true?

[ZiM]

yup, different brain, apparently the only sure fire way to remap em at the mo is physically "chip" them, i.e. soldering and all that jazz...

no ta...

[Cafe.Racer]

Originally Posted by ZiM

no ta...

[peppernick]

DMS is charging the amount because so far, they are one of the successful re-mappers of the 335D; hence capitalising on it. Others like ZiM has explained, are facing some uncertainties with ECU loosing irretrievable data. I spoke to Simon of E-Maps as well as he confirmed the same. The 335D will be cracked, give Simon a few more weeks. He has done several re-maps for people I know and they vouch for the quality of his work, at half the price of DMS too.

[vivekk]

Originally Posted by beauforty

Maybe we could organise a group remap at UK4 if enough 335d's are up for it? Viv could negotiate a big group discount again?

I've spoken to both Mike Cooper at DMS & Simon at e-maps about organising a group re-maps at one of our meets.

Mike was willing to give around a 30% discount (from £699.13 to £500) at UK2, but the lack of 'real' demand stopped that happening.

Here's the info I knocked up at that time (September 06- the 335i & d were not around at that time).

I managed a 17% discount for our meals at the local Thai restaurant in Hilton, Derbyshire for UK3...so...I'll do my best for a group re-map, ok!

Viv