liquidforce

I have a 2001 S4 and was told that nop matter what chip I want to put into my car it has a very good chance of overloading and blowing the turbos. Has this happened to any of you or what have your experiences with this been?

TOASTY

its a risk.. on the otherhand there are some people on the board who have been chipped for 30k miles and have had no problems.

FrankS

at all. I don't drive my car like I stole it either. But I get on it every now and then.

liquidforce

what chip did you put in it? did you get the whole ecu or not?

Pat-SoCal

a lot of people = ~20 out of thousands.

No doubt those 20 drove like goons (well with the exception of Pete's lemon car, which doesn't count due to the fact that it was a LEMON)

CactuSavant

that the turbos that are going to blow are going to blow, and that it doesn't have much to do with whether or not they're chipped.

But if you're chipped and it blows, it might be harder to get Audi to replace it on their dime.

FrankS

MTM Gen II. Whole ECU replaced.

vrsix

From much of what I've read regarding turbos, the long-term reliability is much more affected by your warm-up/cool-down practices, driving style, and oil quality and oil change habits.

I think if you chip your car, drive it sensibly and take good care of it, your turbo reliability shoots upwards.

This is just my opinion.

Nogaro

If you got a set of bad turbos. Its gonna blow no matter what you do with the car. Not even going stock will help.

S4MadMan

Excellent point! The key to turbo longevity is proper warm-up and cool down.