Performance Tuning
Click here to see the list of models that can be optimised with Polestar performance products, along with prices, figures and full specifications.
Polestar Performance gives your Volvo more performance
Polestar Performance optimises the power and torque in your Volvo. It makes the car more lively and fun to drive and it increases safety in situations where you need extra performance, e.g. when overtaking. All this without increasing the fuel consumption or affecting your Volvo's Original Warranty.
Polestar’s technicians who have optimised Volvo cars for racing circuits since 1996 develop the power optimisation. Their skills are well documented in the results lists. Polestar’s long collaboration with Volvo now makes it possible to offer the power optimisation for your Volvo, installed by your our workshop, while retaining the Original Warranty. Now you no longer need to take risks with "chip tuning" to achieve an enhanced driving experience.
Fuel consumption and the environment
A Volvo with the Polestar Performance package has the same certified fuel consumption as the standard version. This is possible thanks to their efficient tuning of the engine, which only increases the power output when it is needed, i.e. for overtaking, long uphill gradients or driving with heavy trailers. This also means that the car's environmental impact remains unchanged; it is maintained within the limits for the certified emissions that are permitted. In practice it is fully possible to use Polestar's power optimisation to reduce fuel consumption slightly, if you drive in an environmentally sound manner with rapid acceleration and maintain an even speed with low engine load.
Improved performance and higher safety in the hands of a driver with good judgement result in better engine performance and increased active safety in traffic. Better acceleration allows faster overtaking of slow moving vehicles such as trucks, trailers and caravans. Quite simply it reduces the time required to complete the overtaking. Volvo's original speed inhibitor is unchanged. We give your Volvo higher power output and better torque in the range the engine most often works in. The Polestar racing drivers call this improving the car's driveability. They want the car to be optimised for racing; you want the car optimised for driving on streets and roads.
Fast and easy to install at TMS
Polestar Performance can be installed by our workshop. If you have ordered in advance the work is carried out promptly, and you can collect your upgraded Volvo the same day. The work could well be carried out in connection with a regular service, tyre change, installation of Volvo accessories or reconditioning. As with other Volvo Original Accessories, Polestar Performance can increase the resale value of your Volvo.
Contact us today to book your Volvo in for a Polestar Performance upgrade.
Alternatively, if your Volvo is over 3 years old and not covered by the manufacturers warranty.
TMS are also an appointed agent for RICA Engineering.
RICA Engineering is one of Europe’s leading specialists in remapping engine management systems. With over 20 years experience in the performance tuning of almost every model of car available on the market,
Click here to see the list of models that can be optimised with RICA Engineering products, along with prices, figures and full specifications.
RICA offer a range of performance upgrades giving you the following benefits.
- Significant power & torque increase
- Sharper throttle response
- Improved drivability and flexibility
- Safer overtaking
- Improved fuel economy
A RICA upgrade is the modification of the software in the engine management system or ECU, as it is commonly known. The software stored in the ECU is used to control the engine’s performance characteristics as well as controlling many other systems such as emissions and diagnostics functions. The RICA upgrade however only alters the performance of the engine under part throttle and full throttle conditions. None of the diagnostic functions idle cold start or emissions controls are altered so your car remains 100% service compliant and the emissions will satisfy all current European emissions regulations.
Your car is connected to our computer running specialist software, which reads the original software in the ECU, which is then modified and programmed back into the ECU. There are no physical changes to the car.
Alternatively, the new RICA iSoftloader is a handheld programming device, which allows you to program your Volvo with RICA software by yourself. Designed and developed entirely in-house by RICA Engineering, the RICA iSoftloader brings RICA ECM upgrades to everyone everywhere!
Contact us today to book your Volvo in for a RICA upgrade, or enquire about a RICA iSoftloader.