Quality. Know their stuff and great customer service. Recommended. Best for modern stuff though. Cheers, Drew.
yeah it is true they wont touch older cars.... they chipped and modded my mk2 and now they wont even touch it ! lets just say ive fallen out with them due to the theory "ive got your money now f**k off"
Sadly true... A company who has seen that faster & easier money is to be made playing with newer cars IMO...
Not good practice at all. Just short term profit. Most people that own earlier mks usually buy the newer models, these people will not want to go to places like AMD because of their attitude. In the end a tuning company that turns away car enthusiasts will damage themselves in the long term.
Look at it from a different perspective. There are more and more ppl wanting to tune the newer models, these will still be around when the rest are being crushed or fall to bits. Today's tech and tommorrows tech is not the same as tech from the 80s. This is long term strategy not short term profit. Happens in all walks of life. Lambo don't make tractors anymore and BMW did not start out making cars. Kodak now make cameras but never did whereas Polaroid only made instants and just like that they went out of fashion and their business shrunk. You got to look to the future not the past. How many ppl are doing 1.8T conversions? 2L and VR6 used to be the craze ... Similarly AmD used to do VAG only ... now they do MINI and Vauxhall, nothign wrong with that, that's where the future business is.
Theres nothing wrong with keep a small stock of older products, ie. for mk3 16v or vr6 as an example. Not costly for the business, and will make people more likely to take there custom back to them in the future. The problem now is its too easy just to plug it in and thats it, no chip removing/refitting, just easy money.
Having money tied up in stock is one of the things businesses try to avoid. Storage is another. Both cost money and are 'dead' money. I'd wager a bet that productivity and effieciency would be down if space/time was set-aside for older cars (unless they charged appropriately, which would likely be a price higher than you would willingly pay). Think why there are fewer and fewer places to tune older VWs ... even Vince @ Stealth does serial port tuning and Badger Bill has evolved to supply parts for the newer generation cars.
Obviously people like AmD don't 'need' to work on the older stuff, as said above serial port tuning is the way forward - licence to print money, and good luck to them if that's the way they want to do things. On the other hand,It's a good job there are still people about like Stealth that will still cater for those of us running old sheds though Agree with Ed what he says about old stock, we seem to hoard stuff in our stores at work 'just in case' someone might need it, but there comes a time when you just have to throw away bits for mk3 Cortinas! Lots of main dealers have a monthly clear out and scrap lots of new parts from their stocks, seem crazy but they'd rather have parts to sell that will sell, not a load of old sh1te gathering dust. Edited by: G_V_K
Not to mention that the mk1 & mk2 Golfs still have a cult following... Like Gary has said we are lucky enough to still have places such as Stealth,TSR & Autotechnik who specialise in our "sheds"!!
AMD do work on MK3's esp VR6 they just say they don't do work on mk1 and 2's But they still do power runs on the Limited for me and only yesterday was I there with the mk1 20v, which I am pleased to say they sorted out after vag messed it up! I have been to a few rolling road days there where they are happy to run mk1 & mk2's and they are always very friendly and helpfull
Why would they waste an hour fitting 200 worth of parts to a MK3 when they can do at least 2 500 'remaps' on pricier, newer cars without even getting their hands dirty? Its just too hard to resist business wise
I used to take my Corrado G60 to AmD with no problems at all. They were happy to do it and always did a brilliant job. Have also used them with my golf 1.8T and plan to use them to install and set up the engine management and supercharger on the scirocco storm mk1 I am rebuilding. screw compresser 16v 2050cc, 275 bhp 315ft/lb should fly. Edited by: Matt18t
Well they wouldn't work on my Mk3... phoned them up just for a chat to see what they could do engine wise (cos I'd read an old article about the PC16V3 engine conversion). The guy I spoke to hadn't got a clue, he even went away to talk to some of the other guys and came back with just a remap!!!
MK2's 'll be around for years, and owning 2 myself well, what more can I say. Nothing quite like a MK2 for me, and many others out there and the attitude of 'If it aint modern we aint gonna work on it', well, AMD - YOUR LOSS!! Plenty of worthy companies out there who deserve business from us enthusiasts
I took my mk2 20vt to AmD november last year. they were going to remap it, but further complications came to light so they pretty much spent the whole day trying to do something for me. they were very friendly with me and talked to me a lot instead of some places that tell you to go sit in the waiting room and let them get on. turned out my management was a bit of a mess and my actuator had seized so there was nothing they could do. The car is being sorted in a couple of weeks now with DTA, k04, low c/r pistons, etc going on and being mapped up by Stealth.
like people have posted,its there loss,i agree they can make more money doing remaps but there are so many companies starting to do them, remaps alone wont kept the bank balance happy,ive posted a few times about www.vagtech.co.uk , they do the whole range of mk's,exellent service,knowledge and experiance.you should check out there awesome r32 turbo,(been out in it,goes and sounds wicked)ive heard plans about there next project which will be just as good,check em out.
