Working on tuning my '19 Golf R. All stock hardware except for drop in filter and turbo inlet pipe/hose. Starting to finally understand HPT a bit more after previously using Eurodyne several years ago to tune my '15 S3 big turbo car, and more recently my '18 BMW 340i with B58 using Bootmod3.
Anyways - I've always preferred tuning my own car, this way I can't blame anyone else if it blows up But I did try an OTS stage 1 high torque tune from an Audi Performance Racing company along with their DQ381 tune. I didn't like it much. WOT was great, but every day driving felt sluggish and laggy in D. It still raced to 6th gear by 40 mph.
I've had the MVPI2 for several years collecting dust (used to tune my Audi Q5 ZF tranny) so I figured I'd blow the dust off and see if I could figure out how to make it work for my R. I was familiar with torque management tuning (similar with BMW) so I kinda had at least an idea of how it needed to work. However I struggled with the throttle closing through most of my runs. This went on for a while until I had an epiphany (at 2am one morning while trying to sleep). It's the damn TIP table dummy! Sure enough that did the trick and I think I have it running very good now. It's as fast as the high torque OTS tune - maybe slightly faster according to Dragy. But best of all is the daily driving experience. I made some pedal torque changes that make the car feel like an NA car while driving normally. World of difference!
I'm sure I have areas to clean up since many changes to maps yielded no results, but I may not have reverted them back to stock. But for now, here's a log, along with my stock and tuned file for amusement.
Oh - I also changed to the IE DQ381 tune which gives me the option to select between several launch speeds and whether or not I want it to shift automatically in M mode. It also has much better shift points in D.