Tuning Box : The ultimate accessory

Hello, I'm Philippe, founder of PTronic, a specialist in tuning box-unis for 20 years. To date, we have sold / installed 98,463 boxes on 3257 different car models. With an average satisfaction rating of 4.7 on Google and Facebook, PTronic is recognised as the world leader in high performance tuning boxes.

P-Tronic box-units are currently used in over 75 countries on all continents. Users are motorists like you and me, road professionals, taxi drivers, deliverymen, farmers... P-Tronic's reputation also encourages car drivers, stuntmen and even police services to use our products! But exactly what is a box-unit?

An engine ally

A box-unit is an accessory that increases an engine's performance (power and torque) and reduces its fuel consumption. It is particularly widespread in the automotive sector. It is used in cars, but also in commercial vehicles, motor homes, agricultural vehicles and boats. Initially limited to diesel engines, the tuning box has gradually spread to petrol engines and can now also be fitted to hybrid vehicles.

Harnessing the engine's potential

To produce its effect, a box-unit acts on various parameters that enable it to exploit the real potential of the engine, as each vehicle is electronically limited to a greater or lesser extent by its manufacturer. This allows brands to offer different levels of power from the same technical base.

A tuning box is composed of three main elements: a shell containing electronic elements, wiring and connection plugs. Depending on the manufacturer's approach, the boxes will have very different profiles that reflect the reality of the market.

The dangers of low-cost

On the one hand, a plethora of low-cost brands offer very simple boxes, identical for all vehicles, including at best a resistor that deceives the computer. These tuning boxes are not designed for the automotive sector, which has repercussions on the materials used (plastic shells, electrical wires, computer-type plugs, etc.) and on the effect produced by the box-unit. In the best cases, they produce a placebo effect or allow slight gains. In the most problematic cases, they interfere with the original electronics or they push the mechanics beyond what it can endure...

Preferring 'made-to-measure

Other manufacturers take a diametrically opposed approach. This is the case of P-Tronic which systematically relies on the specific features of a vehicle in order to always offer the tuning box which is best adapted to the technical realities in which it will have to work: the generation of the vehicle, the type of engine, the brand of injection, the configuration of the gearbox and even the tolerances imposed by the manufacturer. Depending on the case, a P-Tronic box-unit will therefore contain more or less elaborate electronics which will require the use of simple or complex wiring. Components which comply with the strictest automotive regulations, starting with the connection plugs which are always original to the manufacturer.

A companion on the road

When it is quality, a performance box must therefore be considered as a true automotive accessory in the noble sense of the term. A box-unit that acts in perfect harmony with the vehicle and accompanies it throughout its life cycle, since operation in such conditions is not only a guarantee of performance but also of safety and longevity.