Audi S3 remap

Quattro is standard on the 8Y S3, and that is not a detail to skip past when it comes to testing the car properly. A two-roller dyno cannot load all four driven wheels at once, so an AWD car put on one either runs in a compromised, non-standard mode or has an axle disconnected altogether. Either way, the number it produces is not the number the car actually makes on the road. Our four-roller Bapro dyno loads every wheel simultaneously, the same way quattro distributes drive when you are actually driving the car, so the baseline and the verification pulls both mean something.

This is the same rig used for the RS-badged cars in this workshop, and the S3 gets exactly the same treatment on it.

Stage 1 is where most S3 owners start, and it is a software-only calibration. Beyond that, we remap the S tronic gearbox alongside the engine using xHP, the dedicated VAG gearbox tool, sharpening shift speed and shift points to suit the power the engine now makes. An economy remap is available for owners who want better consumption rather than more power, and a standalone rolling road session is available if you want a baseline pull without committing to a full remap. Stage 2 is covered below.