Welcome to Powerchips.com

What can Powerchips do for you?

Powerchips can offer you electronic engine management upgrades to improve many factors in the way that your vehicle performs.

By fitting a Powerchip you won't just see gains in power and torque, you will also find that you will enjoy driving the car much much more.

The responsiveness and general feel will be vastly improved, and in most cases fuel consumption will be aswell.

Do you tow a caravan or trailer? If you do, then fitting a Powerchip may help you.

Many of our customers have found that by fitting a Powerchip to their towing vehicle the drive is vastly improved. You will find that when towing, you will be sppeding up those hills much faster than before and the vehicle won't seem to be doing as much work!

About Powerchips

Powerchips was established over 20 years ago by Collins Performance Engineering. The company started by tuning the extremely popular Ford turbo cars, including the Cosworths and Escort Turbos. Back then Powerchips were one of a very small collection of companies that were able to do these kind of modifications.

Over the years Powerchips has grown and grown to where they are today, with a massive range of electronic tuning products for an even bigger portfolio of vehicles. Powerchips offers electronic upgrades for different classes of vehicle including: cars, vans, motorcycles, trucks, tractors, motorhomes, combine harvesters and even jetskis!

Through many years experience in performance and motorsport engine rebuilding and testing, Powerchips can offer you a Powerchip upgrade for your vehicle which is not based on guesswork, but from understanding completely how your engine operates under all types of conditions.

Powerchips' friendly and technically experienced staff will always do their best to help you 'unlock the potential' from your vehicle. Powerchips believe that they can offer you a great value for money brilliant product, and they will not try and sell you something that you simply don't need.

What do we need to know about your vehicle?

To be sure that we can fit a Powerchip to your vehicle, we would recommend that you contact us.

We would need to know some basic information about the car, obviously the make and model of vehicle and also the year of maufacture.

On some vehicles we may ask for a bit more, the rest of this information will be about the ECU. First you would need to locate the ECU, you can look on our ECU location guide for this. If your car isn't listed then please contact us, we should be able to help you find it.

Once you have located the ECU, there are a few things you should take note of:

-Manufacturer of ECU (ie BOSCH, Siemens, Ford EEC, Bendix, Denso etc.

-The ECU will have a label on it that will have part numbers and ECU codes printed on it. You should write all the information down, and have it available when making your chip enquiry.

-In some cases we may give you instructions to look inside your ECU and obtain further information, ie a chip number, this contains the exact software that your ECU contains.

Methods of chipping
Powerchips can fit a 'chip' to your car using one of many techniques. The method we use depends on the particular car and ECU.

The best and easiest way to have a Powerchip fitted is to come to our premises in Cheshire and have one fitted by one of our experts.

For a range of vehicles you would be advised to go along and see one of our official Powerchips Flashpoint agents who are set up around the country. You can see where they are by clicking on the Flashpoint Agents link. The Flashpoint agents can reprogramme your ECU by using our latest hardware. This is done through the diagnostics port.

If you come to see us, we can reprogramme the majority of modern vehicles by flashing the ECU through the OB2 diagnostics port. With this method there is nothing on the car that is physically changed, this means that the chip is undetectable by your main agent!

We understand that it is not always possible to come to Cheshire, so we do offer another service where you can remove the ECU from your car and send it to us. We would normally advise that you send in the post (usually Royal Mail Special Delivery is most reliable and it is next day), we will then modify the ECU and send it striaght back to you using a next day courier service. The turnaround for this service is about 3 days, we will try our best to send the ECU out the same day as we receive it.

*NEW Mobile Remapping Service available*
Collins Performance Engineering can now offer you a new mobile service for remapping vehicles using the latest Flashpoint Genius equipment.

Depending on your location, we should be able to send an experienced technician out to your home or workplace, and reprogram your factory ECU with one of our Powerchips maps.

You can call us on 01260 279604 to discuss your requirements and to arrange an appointment.