As with all things in life, there is more than one way to skin a cat or – in this case – chipping or mapping a vehicle. There are many tuning companies and tuning products on the market, but we opted to do our testing with Dastek and its ever popular and renowned Unichip. Our guinea pig for the test was a 2016 Land Cruiser Prado with its proven 3.0-litre D4-d turbo-charged four-cylinder engine. We met up with Cornell Jonker, Group GM of Dastek and one of the masterminds behind Unichip.
What is chipping?
To understand chipping, one must first understand the concept of tuning. Any petrolhead will instantly understand the concept of tuning an engine, but for the uneducated tuning concerns three critical aspects of the internal combustion engine namely fuel, compressed air and ignition. These elements are essential for
