The DPChip is user-adjustable, so can indeed be easily ‘wound up’ to provide more power gains albeit at the expense of fuel usage, so I’m more than happy with the ‘out-of-the-box’ settings and improvements. If something goes wrong, everything will happen exactly the same as it would without the DPChip and all factory engine fault codes will activate as standard. With the DPChip living downstream of the factory ECU, all engine safety modes are left intact. Given the people behind DPChip are Berrima Diesel and have been in the diesel engine game since 1956 (Reinhard Leimroth was trained by Robert Bosch) and offer a 6 year warranty on their power modules as well as factory backed driveline warranty and a 60 day money back guarantee, that goes a long way for my piece of mind and belays any fears of mystical electronic gremlins causing limp-home modes that we hear of other systems all too often.
The DPChip module simply plugs into the existing wiring harness and took Andrew Leimroth, of Berrima Diesel, literally a couple of minutes to install for the much anticipated instant gains. No ECU flash tunes, no remaps and no outlandish claims of clutch destroying power upgrades. Given my own exhaustive research on upping my Troopy engine outputs, I’ve gone with the tried and tested, perhaps slightly conservative and overcautious, albeit guaranteed safe and simple DPChip – a simple plug in electronic computer module that has been individually programmed for my vehicle to alter the fuel, timing, boost, pressure and air characteristics for safe, upgraded performance returns across a wider power band. Sure, the younger set tend to be more up to date with all things electronic than the older generation, but I still wonder if some youngens’ totally understand the ramifications of exactly what they are fiddling with on the electronic workings of a common rail turbo diesel engine. While I’m sure some of the ‘newer’ experts could provide a perfectly good and safe engine performance upgrade, I just can’t quite come at handing over my pride and joy – read ‘expensive engine’ – to someone who hasn’t been in the ‘game’ for a long time. The claims, counter-claims and untruths that leach from all manner of self-proclaimed diesel performance experts leaves one wondering how there is no governing body to sort the facts from the bull. The mine field that is ‘engine performance upgrading’ takes an awful lot of brain strain to wade through.
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