hi all

i really want to get into the whole vehicle remapping thing but im struggling on what and where to start

i own an array of tools including

fg tech
mpps
tactrix cable (subaru and mitsu specific)
innovate lc1
few other bits and bobs

tunerpro demo
winols demo
romraider and romraider logger (subaru for use with tactrix)
ecuflash (tactrix)


what im struggling to understand iis file types but dont want to spend 100000's oon software

so as it stands

i have a way of reading a map and saving on my computer ut struggling with the editing

winols i find really confusing

i have downloaded tuner pro which looks like much better software but i need the bin and xdf for locations

from what i understand when ii read a file then that is a bin image? i will then need a damos file or xdf to pinpoint locations in the binary file which will be in a real format i cn understand and edit?

is this correct or am mi doing something wromg?

iv got a few cars here at the minute and a few of my tools

can i get a file from one and then can someone go through sort of step by step what i need to do?

infact i will go and read a file from one vehicle now and upload it then can someone point me to the next step...i.e. what tuniing software i need and how to set it up?

sorry for the speech


just really want to learn lol

so this is a map from a transit i have just read with my fg tech

i will open the file with winols demo and try and determine the hardware and software numbers and then should i try to find a damoos map pack or xdf so i can try and make some changes?

the forum will not allow me to upload the file for some reason

can noone help at all?

how did you all start?

Read read read, there is a lot of guides with basics maps just Google it. First try to determine basics maps. Second try to ask right questions. Most basic maps are identical so.you can try to find it in your ecu.

Now, you can try to identify the maps in your bin file.
Take a similar ECU family maps as an example, from a damos o from a guide.

I started by using a free hex editor and a free checksum calculator. And WinOLS demo for finding maps, editing it and then changes manually copied to hex editor. Very time consuming job, but first car I did (golf IV 1.9 TDI) was made completely this way. :mrgreen:

Then I started using full version of WinOLS. Used ECM Titanium to learn too, but later I found out that it is one piece of crap for serious job, and better way is to download dumps and map packs for WinOLS and learn from them - how do maps look like - the shape, the axis definitions, locations etc. My mondeo has 11 maps defined in ECM, and 2 of them are calibration maps (DOI and TQ/TQ map), so must not be modified to do a proper remap on stock components. Later I had to modify over 70 maps in WinOLS to do the job properly.

I don't think there's any other sutch powerful and universal tool as WinOLS, it's worth to learn it. :thumbup:

What car(s) would you like to remap?

Personally I've started with VAGEDCsuite, which works great voor VAG EDC15 diesels.
A lot of the tiresome map searching and classifying is done for you, and you can easily make some quick changes.

I then started with winols, using VAGEDC for map adresses. But as commented above, there are other sources for these adresses. Best are the damos files, WinOLS (non demo!) can use these to classify maps for you.