Well my knuckles look like I've been holding hands with Freddie Krueger, but it's installed. To be fair to Racechip the instructions are pretty good and Jase's input made it clearer
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I'm pretty impressed with it for the price. It's well built and solid. The connectors have VW markings and the loom is well constructed. Installation was awkward due to the position of the connectors in the engine bay. Not the fault of Racechip at all and they have tried to provide comprehensive instructions which was a nice touch.
It's made the car more excitable in the upper rev range but as Jase found it hasn't all of a sudden dealt with the lack of low rev torque. I've altered the accelerator pedal response type (via OBDeleven) to threshold dependant rather than time dependent and this made it just a touch more lively when responding to a quick dab on the accelerator. I've got mine on setting 5 and will run it over the next few days to see if it needs dropping down a little but so far so good.
For 119 quid (with 13% cashback if you get that as well) it's pretty alright. I don't have access to any rolling road or Dyno so can't give any scientific feedback other than to say yes, I can tell a difference, but it's not blown me away thinking I'm now driving a
Cupra .