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FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit - SOLD #

Posted by Shane Gray on July 10, 2015, 1:02 pm
Edited by board administrator August 21, 2015, 2:23 pm

I have a Genius 2 remapping slave unit for sale which is locked to BHP uk. This is in good condition and only selling due to lack of uptake in my area .
£550 or if invoice required plus vat
Shane 01348874234

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #

Posted by Shane gray on August 14, 2015, 1:28 pm, in reply to "FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #"
Shane Gray

Still for sale and open to offers?
Shane 01348874234

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #

Posted by Kristopher Sheridan on August 14, 2015, 3:42 pm, in reply to "FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #"
Kristopher Sheridan

Hi Shane,

What are BHP uk like?

May be interested, however i have been stung quite a bit by uk tuners,

using a company in the Netherlands who are great but like to have a UK point of contact for certain jobs ...

Kris

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #

Posted by Shane gray on August 14, 2015, 8:09 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #"
Shane Gray

Hi,
Cal at bhp is a top guy, if there is an issue with a map he will alter it while on the phone to you. Also they provide a 2 week trail with every map, if customer not happy put it back to standard and you get a full refund.
Shane

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #

Posted by sean savage on August 18, 2015, 12:30 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #"
Sean Savage

I can second that BHP UK are very good and have top customer service.
sean

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #

Posted by Dale Message on August 20, 2015, 11:03 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #"

Still got it?

Just spoke to BHP UK about it, Subs are a quite a bit out of date so limits use on later vehicle and price for updating it means it would cost more than the deal they offered me for a brand new one. But still tempted just to get me started

Take £450? on that basis

SOLD #

Posted by Shane Gray on August 20, 2015, 11:42 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #"
Edited by board administrator August 21, 2015, 2:23 pm

Sorry Dale, it just sold an hour before your post.
Thanks for looking
Shane Gray

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on August 20, 2015, 12:24 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Dale Message

No worries, had been waiting for BHP to get back to me so missed it

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by lee Mackintosh on August 20, 2015, 3:26 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

Sorry Dale,

I just bought it early this morning for 1 particular job that we (me & Shane) doubt will do but thought at the offer Shane accepted i'll give it a punt.

BHP UK quoted me £699+vat to update plus a further 12months, in all fairness they did say most people update every 2-3 years.

Shane was up front and honest and with his permission checked on updates etc.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on August 20, 2015, 3:52 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Dale Message

No worries, my fault for waiting.

BHP told me the same price for updates, she said someone else had been on to them about it.

They also offered me a new one inc 12mths updates for 1250+vat, a decent price. If I was planning on updating it now I'd of gone for that instead, but as we don't see many new cars I could of put that off till it became a problem.

It was just something to have a go with, so not desperate for one

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Lee Mackintosh on August 20, 2015, 4:29 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

Dale,

BHP UK told me £1500+vat for an new unit so they must just make up prices as they feel suits them.

I'd never consider it at that price but I'm hoping my 1st job will pay 2/3rds towards the cost of the tool then I have mostly profit on the next one, assuming I have any luck with it.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on September 19, 2015, 8:23 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"

Hi Lee

How did you get on with the BHP machine you bought,

I found another in the end and bought it last week. This one is 6mths old and been used twice so like new, haven’t used it yet because they say I have to install win7 on my pc first instead of xp which is a pain.

How do you find BHP to deal and did they charge you any admin fee for transferring

Dale

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Lee Mackintosh on September 19, 2015, 12:21 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

Dale,

I have only used it once and as Shane rightly said he very much doubts it will cover the car I intended to use it on but took the chance anyway. It didn't work on the z19dth Zafira but I only lost about £75 in the end so customer paid the majority of my purchase & may have gained a customer throught it.

As for BHP,

couldn't fault them, no admin charge and he used teamviewer to install/setup my maxhine on win 7 pc. I chose to have installed it on a desktop with a wired connection.

Sent the ecu off to them and within 2 days it was back in my workshop so my 1st experience using them was good.

I don't advertise so its highly unlikely I will get much use out of it yet but I have it as and when I need to use it.

Your coverage will be far greater than what I currently have as mine is 3 years out of date so you may beable to do the ecu's which i need to send in to be bench remapped.

They also seem to be reasonably priced, £100+Vat for a remap file & £130+vat for a dpf solution. £150+vat if you need to send it off to them.

I think its just another addition to your services but unless your heavily into it and knowledge of what's involved then don't think its a real money earner.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on September 19, 2015, 11:37 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Dale Message

Thanks Lee,

Spoke to BHP a couple of times before purchase and Fran seems ok, although a £50 'admin'

fee to transfer it did get mentioned at one point. Will be arguing the toss on that if they didn't charge you then. Seems they just make figures up as they go.

Like you I'm not expecting much income from it but its just another service thats there if needed. Maybe the odd dpf or egr for other garages if required. Couldn't see the point of paying someone to do my own cars if for a small investment I can do it myself.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Lee Mackintosh on September 20, 2015, 3:33 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

I suppose they didn't charge me £50 admin as they knew I'd be paying them £180 straight off.

To be honest I don't even know why they got me to attempt a read on the Z19DTH Zafira as they already knew it wasn't possible to do via obd socket, as did I really but you do as asked.

I only need to do one more job then all my expenses are covered. So if I don't use it again its not a real issue but it would obviously be nice to use it.

Good luck with it.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Shane gray on September 20, 2015, 8:25 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Shane Gray

Lee,
Glad all went well with your first dealings with bhp. I.m now the proud owner of a snappy modis ultra thanks to some funding from my sale .

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Lee Mackintosh on September 20, 2015, 10:57 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

Shane,

I think that's a good choice, my snap-on rep sells them more than any other diagnostic tool they offer.

Apparently snap-on have improved since I off loaded my Verdixt but I only use a Vantage Pro and Vantage Ultra now from Snap-on.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on September 25, 2015, 10:00 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"

Lee,

Quizzed them over the admin fee and Fran was confident that you were charged one. Whether they forgot to add it to your bill is another question

Paid up and done the first remap on my own car which went ok.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Lee Mackintosh on September 25, 2015, 1:42 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

I 100% never paid any admin fee, infact from what I remember this wasn't even mentioned. The only fees that were discussed were updates, catch up fees, remap file prices and in house pricing.

Can't have been lucky as this doesn't happen to me.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Shane gray on September 27, 2015, 2:49 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Shane Gray

Hi.
I never paid a fee either. My be it's something they have just brought in

Shane

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on September 29, 2015, 1:10 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"

Weird how I got stung for it then, she was adamant that everyone pays a setup/admin fee of 50+vat

Not started out too well so far, first remap was my own car and its smokes too much under normal load. Rang them to get it tweaked at 10am and by 5.30pm still hadn't had a new file. If it was a customers car they would of been going mental.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Shane gray on October 1, 2015, 8:07 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Shane Gray

Hi,
There not the quickest. But they will tweak it as many times as it takes.
Shane

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Dale Message on October 1, 2015, 9:34 am, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Dale Message

Cheers, got the file back 2 days later

Wasn't a big surprise it smoked, its high mileage so was a bit of a test but just a pity it took so long to get a replacement. They claim the server needed refreshing...

Whatever.

As for the admin fee, its seems its a new thing they have introduced and just happened to of started between Lee buying yours and me buying mine..

yeh right! but said I can go and spend the day with them and get free training if I want it so evens out in the end.

Shaky start with them but hopefully run smoother from now.

Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD

Posted by Lee Mackintosh on October 1, 2015, 8:51 pm, in reply to "Re: FOR SALE - Genius 2 remapping slave unit #SOLD"
Lee Mackintosh

Seems to me they realised a quick opportunity to make a few quid.

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