Anyone here chip tuned GLE350d with BRABUS PowerXtra D6S (II)
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Anyone here chip tuned GLE350d with BRABUS PowerXtra D6S (II)
Hi everyone. Please share if anybody here has or has heard of someone who has installed the BRABUS PowerXtra D6S (II) chip to V6 3 litre diesel. This performance kit upgrades the power from the stock 258hp/620Nm to 309hp/690Nm , reaching these values in the same rpm-s like the stock ones. Price here is about 1900EUR together with the installation. Brabus has some consent with MB, they give a special MB approved certificate and the warranty on the engine stays. The only think bothering me is I can't test it because once I order the performance kit I am obliged to buy it. The Brabus representative says that the dofference in the way the car behaves can be felt over 3000rpm-s when the chip starts interfering. I'm not sure if this is going to be a significant difference in the everyday driving since 90% of the time I'm under 3000rpm-s even in Sport mode except when accelerating agressively.
I'd be grateful if anybody share his experience or has some thoughts on the topic.
I'd be grateful if anybody share his experience or has some thoughts on the topic.
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here is a german video about a similar tuning kit. the test showed that the ML improved 0 - 60 by half a second but they also said that they didn't really feel the difference while driving because the ML is so comfy and quiet
you can see some before/after numbers at around 8:10
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The interesting thing with these chips is if ypu can really feel the difference or not, all kind of acceleration measurements are I guess true but not coresponding to the real car's behaviour. That's why I was hoping I could find someone really tested it to share his experience.
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I have this:
https://www.tdi-tuning.co.uk/car_and...ip_P13062.html
There is definately a noticable bump in power/acceleration, as well as the removal of the former laggy/flat spot in the power band after 1,000-1,500 RPM.
Install was a PITA though; getting to the fuel sensor is challenging. Having installed many piggyback/ECU tunes on BMWs before, I had to get this professionally installed at a local garage.
https://www.tdi-tuning.co.uk/car_and...ip_P13062.html
There is definately a noticable bump in power/acceleration, as well as the removal of the former laggy/flat spot in the power band after 1,000-1,500 RPM.
Install was a PITA though; getting to the fuel sensor is challenging. Having installed many piggyback/ECU tunes on BMWs before, I had to get this professionally installed at a local garage.
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I have this:
https://www.tdi-tuning.co.uk/car_and...ip_P13062.html
There is definately a noticable bump in power/acceleration, as well as the removal of the former laggy/flat spot in the power band after 1,000-1,500 RPM.
Install was a PITA though; getting to the fuel sensor is challenging. Having installed many piggyback/ECU tunes on BMWs before, I had to get this professionally installed at a local garage.
https://www.tdi-tuning.co.uk/car_and...ip_P13062.html
There is definately a noticable bump in power/acceleration, as well as the removal of the former laggy/flat spot in the power band after 1,000-1,500 RPM.
Install was a PITA though; getting to the fuel sensor is challenging. Having installed many piggyback/ECU tunes on BMWs before, I had to get this professionally installed at a local garage.
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Did you install this on your own car? How many km have you passed after installing the chip? Do you have to shorten the service intervals for oil/folters change or not . And how weren't you afraid to chip your GLE under warranty, I'm thinking about the Brabus chip because generally MB approves their product. Although the dealer says that mb "still can deny servicing the engine or any connected to it aggregates under warranty with the Brabus DS6 installed" and what bothers me is that "connected to it agregates" is actually the whole vehicle.
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If you can provide a video of the 0-100 acceleration in S it will be very interesting for everyone here to see the difference, I have such a video of the stock engine, the approximate numbers I can reach are around 7.5 0-100, measuring from the moment the rpm-s start going up, because generally this is about half a second before the speedometer starts moving.
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If you can provide a video of the 0-100 acceleration in S it will be very interesting for everyone here to see the difference, I have such a video of the stock engine, the approximate numbers I can reach are around 7.5 0-100, measuring from the moment the rpm-s start going up, because generally this is about half a second before the speedometer starts moving.
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Dont you try and hold the car with the brake, allowing it to rev up? Then you release the brake and the car should launch itself faster. This allows the turbo to build pressure. I believe you can also find plenty of phone apps that will start the stop watch exactly when the car starts moving, and stop it when you reach 100km/hr. More accurate than real time speedo readings.
By the way the car starts moving later than the moment you kick the throttle and this time is the one that is actually important in real life, otherwise you subtract the gearbox reaction time that is not negligible.
