An Island city night drive...

Taking full opportunity of having my own here, I went out for a night cruise around this Island City to catch the sights and sound from a different perspective.

Somehow ended up at Gardens By The Bay.



A nice at night really.

P/S - 

Pic are taken by phone cameras. 

Sony Z1 Compact and Samsung Galaxy Alpha. 

No DSLR trickery here.

RON97 vs RON95 - The comparisons

RON97 vs RON95 arguements has been going around for quite sometimes already with some saying RON95 is shit fuel and RON97 is the better fuel and provides more power, better mileage etc.

Now that Paultan has done a RON97 vs RON95 fuel test as written in their article here, I think I can further add on to their test.

For those lazy buggers who are lazy to click on the link to read, Paultan's team basically does a fuel consumption test between RON95 and RON97 on 2 similiar car, namely 2 VW Polo Sedan 1.6 and 2 VW Jetta 1.4 TSI with one of the Polo being filled with RON95 and the other with RON97. Its the same scenario with the Jetta too with one running RON95 and one running RON97.

The cars are then driven as "real world" as possible through a mixture of heavy traffic routes, trunk routes, highways and so on to find out what will be the consumption be at the end of the journey.

Now please click the link here to find out more as I won't be repeating their article here.

My personal test
What I am going to show here is that, what will be the difference in power between RON95 and RON97 on the same car, which is a VW Jetta 1.4 TSI belonging to yours truly here.

For this scenario, while the car has been running RON95, I've managed to dyno the car to get an output figure for reference purpose.
For the RON97 dyno, I filled up the car with RON97 for 4 tanks before hitting the dyno again. This is so that I've completely clear out as much RON95 as possible from the car fuel tanks.

Between the last RON95 tanks and the 4 tanks of RON97, roughly about 1800 km's has passed.

And the car is running on stock ECU map. No performance remapping done. Plain stock map from factory.

Now enough of text, time to show hand.

Click to enlarge the dyno chart image.

RED is RON 97

BLUE is RON95

Now from dyno chart, between RON97 and RON95, there seems to be no significant power gain.

What you most likely gain is that with RON97, the engine delivers the power smoother compared to RON95 and thus gives the impression that RON97 "produce" more power.

Basically with a smoother engine, the engine sound or note will be less harsh and thus reinforce the impression of more power.

So whats the moral of the story?

Unless you are running performance map or a performance/race/tuned-up engine or driving a performance/sports car, there is no noticeable difference between RON95 and RON97.

So for others driving regular cars and can't decide between RON95 and RON97, the only question you need to ask yourself is , "Can my pocket afford to pay more for fuel?"

Your personal call.

Vagcom - Services for hire

Been considering this for a long time coming.
Finally decided to make this as my part time job.
After all I do need to recoup the cost of the equipment right? Haha.

My Vagcom services for hire is now official.
The services is available for any VW, Audi and Skoda vehicle.

What can I provide?
Basically I can provide a full vehicle diagnostic to ensure that your vehicle is all fine and dandy.
I will be able to inform you about hidden error (ie, errors that do not trigger a checklight on your meter cluster) and also the resolution for it.

Apart from diagnostic, I will also be able to enable/disable features and functions of the car that you never know existed.

For example, on the MK6 Jetta in Malaysia, below is some of the functions that can be enabled or disabled.

Alarm beep on lock and unlock function & Auto Rain Closing function

Total amount of fuel to refuel (in Litres)

Additional example of features/functions will be found here and here.

The cost for the services will be as follows
- Polo Sedan / TSI - $30
- PQ/PL Platforms based - $50
- MQB Platforms based - $150

The cost includes the following job scope
- Full diagnostic of the car
- Enable/Disable functions of the car
- Free Enabling of discovered functions in the future (no future charges)

If only diagnostic is required, it will cost a paltry $10.

The reason why MQB platforms based cost so much is because there is alot of functionality in the MQB platforms to play around with. Some of the MQB platforms examples are as below.

Options to disable/enable Daytime Running Lights.

DRL dim when signal is enagaged. Brightness of the DRL can be adjusted to. Individually at that.

Driving School Mode - Driving information display in your headunit.

Enable auto closing in rain and also alarm chirp on unlock and locking of the car.

The million dollar question.

Will it void warranty?

No. It will not.

So for more information, please feel free to contact me via any channel below
+60123636750
+6594286836