Thanks for stopping by to read our Volvo 142 tuning chip review. Here we’ll help you decide on the best tuning kit to boost the performance and economy of your Volvo 142. When tuning your car there are several potential avenues to explore, from ECU remaps to plugin race chips, we’ll explain these to you and also help you understand the sort of performance and BHP increase you can expect to get from your Volvo 142.Volvo 142 Tuning Chip

Race Chip or ECU remap?

The first step to increasing performance and economy on your Volvo is to decide if you want to go down the route of a plug-in style chip or to get a full ECU remap. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Our preference at iComparedIt, is always a chip, they’re really simple to fit and remove for instant power and economy. Getting a good quality chip delivers the same level of power and MPG increase as an ECU remap and gives you complete flexibility to remove the chip if required. However that comes with a strong BUT, and that is you must choose a decent brand for your chip. Brands like RaceChip have been around for years and are leaders in the market for a very good reason, they work and are totally reliable. Trusted tuning box suppliers will have built custom maps specifically to suit your Volvo 142 engine, whether its TDI tuning or petrol tuning boxes they will have built it and tested it on your car.

Choosing a Tuning Box Brand

As mentioned above, it’s vital you choose a good supplier for your chip, if you want to ensure the long term reliability and performance of your Volvo 142. Don’t be tricked into buying a cheap box from eBay. At iComparedIt we recommend RaceChip, and use them on our company cars.

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RaceChips that fit the Volvo 142

RaceChip produce a range of different chips to suit all cars. For example, for our Audi A5 there’s 3 different tuning boxes available, the RaceChip one, the RaceChip Pro 2 and the RaceChip ultimate. Each varies in what it delivers and the price. Check the options, prices and compatibility by using the button above or below.

Power improvement on the Volvo 142

Power increases vary based on many factors, Diesel tuning kits often outperform petrol tuning kits, but again this will vary from car to car. To get the exact power increase for your Volvo 142 model variant just use the button below and enter your car details. But as a guide you can expect around a 20% power increase by simply installing a tuning box.

MPG improvement on the Volvo 142

This is a similar story to the power increase, it will vary from car to car, but as a guide, we get around 6MPG more on average on our Audi A5. Again you’ll get a more accurate reading for the RaceChip for the Volvo 142 once you’ve entered your car details.

Volvo 142 Tuning box prices

Prices start at around £129 for a RaceChip and go up to around £399, significantly cheaper than many ECU remaps and giving you the flexibility to remove at any time, should you need to. Are they worth the money? Absolutely, these are simply the most cost effective, easy and reliable ways of increasing performance and economy on your car.

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The video below gives you an indication of the difference you can expect from a tuning chip, which as you can see has a huge impact on starting acceleration and also overall speed, with the chipped car getting across the line .4 seconds quicker…amazing.