OCTOBER RESULTS 2026
+2,246 hp and +4,202 Nm total · record +122 hp · 51 Stage 1 jobs this month
WHO CAME TO US
Flagships and big engines
The car of October is a BMW X6 M50i G06 – the most powerful of the month and the power gain record, from 530 to 652 hp and +130 Nm after Stage 1. Alongside it an Audi A6 Allroad 3.0 TDI Bi-Turbo with the torque record of the month at +150 Nm, a Toyota Land Cruiser with the 4.5 D-4D V8 and a Porsche Cayenne Diesel that gained 63 hp. Plus three BMW X5 – from the E70 to the new G05.
Commercial vehicles and people carriers
Vans and big family cars delivered some of the best percentage results in October: a Ford Tourneo Custom 2.2 TDCi gained 46%, a VW Transporter T5 31%, a Renault Trafic 2.0 dCi 29% and a Nissan NV200 26%. For work this means pulling power under load, confident overtaking on the motorway and lower consumption.
15 cars on the dyno
In October 15 cars were measured on the load dyno – more than in September. Real power and torque curves before and after, not calculated numbers from a database. More about the dyno →
Dyno measurementsFile service: 48 workshops
48 workshops worked with us through the file service in October – 375 files in a month. Top makes: BMW, VW, Mercedes, Volvo. More about the file service →
File serviceNOT ONLY STAGE 1
Stage 1 is only part of October. Most cars once again came in for diagnostics and smoke tests: with the first cold days, owners complain more often about frequent DPF regenerations, jerking and loss of power. Here is what else kept us busy.
Top services in October
Diagnostics
Fault codes, jerking, limp mode and loss of power. We find the cause – on the road too, logging live data – instead of clearing codes.
DiagnosticsSmoke tests
Particle and opacity measurement on Capelec / TEXA – owners know the result before visiting CSDD.
Smoke testRemap rework
We fix other people's remaps: cars that drive worse after «tuning» elsewhere than they did from the factory.
OriginalService work
Removal and refitting of DPFs and intake manifolds, flex pipe replacement, exhaust welding.
ServiceDPF and intake cleaning
Hydrodynamic cleaning of particulate filters and ultrasonic cleaning of intake manifolds.
CleaningCases from the workshop
Toyota Avensis 2011
Weak acceleration, revs start hunting around 2,000 rpm, and at about 90 km/h in 3rd–5th gear a slight vibration runs through the body. A stationary check elsewhere showed nothing – symptoms like these are found on the road, logging live data.
Mercedes ML 350 2013
Power drops out when overtaking and comes back after the ignition is cycled. A classic limp mode – we find out which parameter the ECU considers out of range instead of just clearing the fault.
Mazda CX-5 2015
The owner complained about frequent DPF regenerations, especially in the cold. After diagnostics we removed the intake manifold for cleaning – on SkyActiv-D diesels a coked intake is often behind complaints like this.
BMW 740d 2011
It came in with a question – does the intake manifold need cleaning? We checked its condition, removed the manifold and refitted it clean – no guesswork and no unnecessary work.
Ford S-MAX 2011
After someone else's remap the engine revved to almost 5,000 rpm and blew bluish smoke at high revs. We brought the rev limit back to a sensible 4,200–4,300 and checked the smoke level to confirm the result.
Ford Kuga 2013
After a used particulate filter brought in from Lithuania was fitted, the test showed more than 10 million particles – the filter is effectively not working. Better to find that out here than at the inspection.
RECORDS OF THE MONTH
BMW X6 M50i
VW Jetta
STAGE 1 – TOP BRANDS
In October BMW led again – 14 cars out of 51, followed by Volkswagen with 11. The whole VW Group (Volkswagen, Audi, Skoda, Porsche) adds up to 17 cars, a third of the month. Volvo is third with five cars, three of them first-generation XC90s with the D5 diesel. The remaining 14 cars come from 10 more makes: Skoda, Toyota, Ford, Jeep, Lexus, Porsche, Nissan, Renault, Land Rover, Subaru. 15 makes in total, 44 diesels and 7 petrol cars.
MOST POWERFUL
Power is not the only metric. On modern turbo engines the factory caps torque to protect the gearbox, and Stage 1 first of all lifts exactly that limit. The Audi A6 Allroad Bi-Turbo gained 150 Nm – the torque record of the month, the BMW X6 M50i and BMW X4 35d 130 Nm each. In percentage terms the biggest torque gain went to a VW Golf 1.5 TSI: from 200 to 290 Nm (+45%). It is torque you feel under acceleration, not peak horsepower.
BMW X6 M50i
Audi A6 Allroad
BMW X4 35d
BMW X5 xDrive30d
BMW X5 30d
Toyota Land Cruiser
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BEST GAINS
VW Jetta
Ford Tourneo Custom
Range Rover Evoque
VW Golf 1.6 TDI
BMW 320d
VW Golf 1.5 TSI
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