Last updated 16 October 2026
Remapping leads, and the dearest ones you can't legally take on.
UK remappers are sold work five ways: a whole territory from Remap Network, a monthly Google Ads service built for remappers, a FixMyCar subscription, a file supplier's dealer map, or a directory listing. Only some print a price. Buy the click yourself and a legal remapping search costs £1.15 to £3.12.
The searches that cost most are for AdBlue, DPF and EGR deletes, up to £8.83 a click, and on a road vehicle that is work you can't do. This guide is for mobile and workshop remappers, most of them working from a van and taking the job by phone or WhatsApp. Mechanical work is covered in garage leads and mobile mechanic leads.
The line that changed on 1 January 2026
"references to a vehicle part include software", and fitting one includes "installing software in, or otherwise making software interact with, a vehicle."
That's section 76 of the Road Traffic Act, as amended this year. Fitting a part that makes a car break the construction and use rules is an offence, and on our reading a file that switches off the DPF or the AdBlue system now counts as fitting one.
Where we stand
We don't sell remapping leads. We help you get your own.
This guide is the honest version of what buying remapping leads costs, and who else gets them. What we do instead is build remappers a website that turns visits into calls, and run Google Ads in an account in your own name, so every lead that comes in is a customer who found you, and nobody else was sold it.
Who is searching
Drivers search for a remapper near them. Nobody searches for a lead seller.
"remapping near me" gets about 8,100 UK searches a month and "car remapping" 6,600. The mobile searches are smaller and dearer: "mobile remapping near me" is 480 a month at £3.07 a click, which tells you other remappers with a van are bidding on exactly the customer you want.
On the remapper's side there is nothing. "remapping leads", "ecu remapping leads", "remapping marketing" and "how to get more remapping customers" all came back with no searches and no bids. The one owner search with any size is "remapping course", 110 a month, which is people getting into the trade rather than people looking for work in it.
Then there is the other demand. The delete searches (DPF, EGR, AdBlue and speed limiter removal) add up to about 10,930 a month, and "dpf delete" alone is 2,900. A lead from any of those is a job you have to turn down, and the law section below says why.
What the job pays
A van map and a tractor don't carry the same lead.
Since few sellers print a per-lead price, the fairest yardstick is what a lead from your own ad costs on the search that brings each job in. Here it is against four published prices, if you win one quote in 3.
| Job | Published price | Search and lead cost | Cost of a win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economy or van remap, mobile | £275 to £300 | "van remapping near me", about £35 | £106, 37% of the job |
| Stage 1 remap, most cars | £200 to £400 | "stage 1 remap near me", about £32 | £96, 32% of the job |
| Stage 2, parts and labour included | £500 to £1,000 | "stage 2 remap", about £18 | £55, 7% of the job |
| Tractor or agricultural remap | £500 to £1,000 | "remapping near me", about £31 | £94, 13% of the job |
The economy and van price is two mobile remappers' own lists (SGR Automotive and Remap2Race). Stage 1 is Confused.com's range, stage 2 is carwow's with parts and labour included, and tractors are Avon Tuning HD's. Ranges are worked at their middle. Winning one quote in 3 is MyJobQuote's figure for its own trades; nobody publishes an independent UK figure. Lead costs assume 7.33% of clicks get in touch.
As a rough rule, winning a job should cost about 10 to 15 percent of what it pays. A van map at £288 is nowhere near that: the win costs 37%. A stage 1 is 32%. Stage 2 work (7%) and tractors (13%) are where a paid lead sits comfortably inside the rule.
The file comes out of the same job
On a slave tool you buy every file from your master. One UK file supplier, JF Automotive, charges £50 for a stage 1 and £80 for a stage 2, ex VAT. FixMyCar puts the average stage 1 at £243.27. Take off a won lead of about £96 and the file, and about £97 is left for your time, travel and VAT.
The tool decides who you buy from
JF Automotive sells slave tools from £1,600 (a KESS3 from £1,700), ex VAT, and puts it plainly: "A slave tool is locked to one supplier, which is why it is cheaper." A KESS3 master car and van activation lists at £2,690 against £1,160 for slave, £1,530 more to choose your own files.
Your numbers
What can you spend to land one remap job profitably?
Pick a job, say how many quotes you usually win, and put in what a lead costs you, from a seller or your own ad. It starts on a stage 1. Flip to the van map and then the tractor and watch the share move, and remember the file is still to come out of whatever is left.
WHAT CAN YOU PAY FOR A REMAPPING LEAD?
Pick a job, or type in what yours are worth
Starts on one in three, the figure MyJobQuote tells its own trades to expect. Put in yours.
You can pay up to about
£15
a lead, winning one in 3
- Healthy range, per won job
- £30 to £45
- Which per lead is
- £10 to £15
Put a seller's price in the last box and this will tell you what each won job would cost you.
The 10 to 15 percent band is a rule of thumb, not a measured figure.
Who sends the work
Who sells remappers work, and the small print on each one.
Here is everyone we found selling remappers work or the ads that bring it in. Each line is in the firm's own words, and where a price isn't published we say so.
| Who | What you get | How you pay | In their words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remap Network | A whole territory | Fee confirmed when you apply | "One business per territory gets every enquiry it generates." |
| Remapping Leads | Google Ads run for you | £139 a month + VAT, plus clicks | "The ads account remains the property of Remapping Leads." |
| AdSimpler | Facebook ads run for you | £250 a month, plus ad spend | "You keep your ad account, website and domain" |
| FixMyCar | Quote requests from drivers | £120 a month + VAT + 10% of jobs won | "Fair usage limits apply" |
| Quantum Tuning | Leads from its dealer map | Files in bundles, price on sign-up | "not every dealer always gets them" |
Remap Network sells the territory, not the lead, and keeps the price back
It runs local remapping brands it owns, with the website, the ads and the call tracking all in its name, and passes every lead in an area to one remapper. "Do you sell leads individually? No." The fee depends on the size and demand of the territory and is "confirmed once you apply". Its home page says the first agreement is 8 weeks, then rolling with 14 days' written notice; its FAQ page says 30 days. Get the one that applies to you in writing.
The money-back promise has conditions: you answer at least 80% of live calls, reply to every lead within 10 minutes in opening hours, log every outcome in its CRM and quote your normal prices. It also keeps "the right to reassign that city" if a partner ignores customers. For a remapper on a driveway with a laptop plugged into an OBD port, the 10-minute rule is the one to think about. Its FAQ says you own the customers; the brand, the website and the number they rang stay with Remap Network.
Remapping Leads runs your ads, and keeps the account if you cancel
Remapping Leads, the company at remappingleads.co.uk, charges £139 a month plus VAT to manage an ad budget of up to about £300 a month (£119 plus VAT on a smaller starter budget), with no setup fee and 30 days' notice. Its leads are "100% exclusive to you". Its FAQ answers the question every buyer should ask: "Do I get to keep the Ads account / campaigns if I cancel? No." The pages the ads send drivers to stay with it too. The site footer still reads 2020, so confirm the price before you sign.
AdSimpler runs Facebook ads, and the account stays with you
AdSimpler charges £250 a month to manage ads, or £350 with a website and local SEO, plus your own ad spend: "We never touch your ad budget or mark it up". It takes "One remap shop per area", has no contract, and says you keep the ad account, website and domain. Its ads are Meta ads, so they find people scrolling rather than people searching for a remap.
FixMyCar sends quote requests, and takes a cut on the Starter plan
FixMyCar has a car remapping page where drivers compare garages. Its Starter plan is £99 plus VAT to sign up, then £120 a month plus VAT and 10% of the jobs you win; Standard is £250 a month plus VAT with no commission. It doesn't say how many garages see each request, and it reaches drivers through a network of more than 15,000 garages of every kind, so on a remap you are quoting against workshops as well as other remappers.
The file suppliers send leads to their own dealers
Quantum Tuning tells would-be dealers its site produces "up to 250 a week across the network", and in the same breath that "not every dealer always gets them". It charges no dealership fee and sells files in bundles, at a price it tells you when you sign up; leave and "Unused files are not credited." Viezu and Celtic Tuning run dealer locators too, but neither says it passes on leads. A dealer map is a lead source tied to your tool and your files, so weigh it with the slave tool above.
Bark and Checkatrade have no remapping category at all
Bark's remapping pages don't exist; remappers list under car and vehicle mechanics and pay in credits at £1.80 each, valid 3 months, with up to 5 professionals answering a request and no credits back if the customer goes quiet. Checkatrade, MyBuilder, Rated People and MyJobQuote have no remapping category, and Zapo's motor trade list stops at garages, driving instructors and taxis. TrustATrader does list engine remapping, with "Memberships are limited per area" and no published price. Google's Local Services Ads have no motor category in the UK. A driver ringing round five remappers for the cheapest stage 1 is what the shared-lead trap is about.
Everything here about Bark's contract comes from its own published terms and conditions, last read on 16 October 2026. Terms get revised, so check yours against the current version before you act on anything.
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Check my areaBuying the click yourself
A legal remapping click costs £1.15 to £3.12. Mobile searches cost the most.
The busiest search, "remapping near me", is £2.29 a click. The dearest are the mobile ones, because a driver who wants it done on the driveway is the customer every van-based remapper is after. For the last column we assume 7.33% of clicks get in touch, which is WordStream's conversion rate for home improvement search ads, measured on American campaigns.
| Search | Searches a month | Per click | Per lead |
|---|---|---|---|
| mobile car remapping near me | 140 | £3.12 | £43 |
| mobile remapping near me | 480 | £3.07 | £42 |
| dyno remapping | 720 | £2.89 | £39 |
| mobile remapping | 320 | £2.70 | £37 |
| van remapping near me | 170 | £2.58 | £35 |
| ecu remapping near me | 720 | £2.39 | £33 |
| stage 1 remap near me | 1,000 | £2.34 | £32 |
| remapping near me | 8,100 | £2.29 | £31 |
| car remapping near me | 3,600 | £2.17 | £30 |
| gearbox remap | 140 | £2.12 | £29 |
| ecu remapping | 1,900 | £1.56 | £21 |
| van remapping | 210 | £1.48 | £20 |
| stage 2 remap | 1,000 | £1.35 | £18 |
| stage 1 remap | 4,400 | £1.32 | £18 |
| car remapping | 6,600 | £1.15 | £16 |
Google Ads data for the UK, pulled 16 October 2026. Click prices are bid estimates, so treat them as a guide to where your own costs will land.
That puts a remapping lead at about £16 to £43. "stage 2 remap" is cheap at £1.35 a click and leads to the bigger job. The delete searches are not in this table, and the next section is the reason: list "DPF delete" as a negative keyword, so your ad never shows to somebody asking for work you will refuse.
- Bid on stage 2, vans and tractors over cheap stage 1s
- Negative keywords for every delete search
- Say "no DPF, EGR or AdBlue removal" in the ad
- Prices by vehicle on your own website
- Your name on the ad the driver taps
- An ad account that leaves with you
Bid on the legal remap searches and leave the delete terms out of the account entirely. The Google Ads guide for tradesmen covers how the auction prices those clicks, and how much to spend on Google Ads the monthly figure.
The leads to turn down
The dearest clicks in remapping are for deletes, and those jobs are an offence.
"adblue removal" costs £8.83 a click, "adblue delete" £7.25, "dpf removal" £3.07 and "egr delete" £2.77. At the same conversion rate an AdBlue removal lead costs about £120, several times a legal one. Somebody is paying that for customers whose job breaks the law the moment the car goes back on the road.
The car becomes illegal to use
gov.uk says removing a DPF "will almost invariably contravene these requirements, making the vehicle illegal for road use", under regulation 61A, with fines of up to £1,000 for a car and £2,500 for a van.
The remapper is on the hook
Section 75 makes it an offence to alter a vehicle so its use is unlawful, and section 76 to fit a part that does the same, software included since January 2026. DVSA's Market Surveillance Unit "may prosecute a company or individual that carries out an emissions tampering service", per a Parliament answer.
The MOT looks for it
The MOT manual fails emissions equipment that is "missing, obviously modified or obviously defective" and a DPF with "Evidence" of tampering, both major. More than 2,000 vehicles failed for a missing or dead DPF in the first years of the check, says another answer.
Lorries get checked at the roadside. Since September 2018, DVSA has given a lorry caught with an emissions cheat device 10 days to put it right, then a £300 fine and the lorry off the road, and it can refer the operator to the Traffic Commissioners. For a fleet customer, that is their operator's licence on the line.
Speed limiters follow the vehicle. gov.uk says one must be fitted on goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes and vehicles with more than 8 passenger seats, and the rules require it to be sealed against interference. "speed limiter removal" gets 170 searches a month; on those vehicles it is a job to refuse.
gov.uk also has a reporting page for any business "offering to remove or change emission control systems". Your competitors can use it as easily as anyone. A remapper that says on its own website that it doesn't do deletes has nothing to worry about there.
Before you plug in
Insurance and warranty belong in the quote, not in the customer's inbox.
A legal remap still changes two things for the driver, and both come back to you if nobody mentioned them.
The insurer has to be told
LV= calls a remap a modification and says a claim may be rejected or cut if it wasn't declared. It also admits "It's difficult for insurers to tell if a car is remapped", which is why the driver has to say. Admiral warns of a higher premium and a change fee, the RAC says to tell the insurer before the work is done, and the Consumer Insurance Act puts the duty on the driver.
The warranty may not cover it
Admiral says a remap the manufacturer hasn't approved means the warranty "may be invalidated", and Land Rover's own exclusions name "chip tuning". On farm work, Avon Tuning HD reckons about 20% of the machines it sees are still under warranty, so ask before you quote.
The MOT can also catch a bad map. An engine warning light showing a fault, or not working, is a major fault, and so is visible smoke of any colour from a car with a DPF. carwow's line for drivers is the one to repeat: remapping "is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with emissions systems".
One line on the quote covers it: declare the remap to your insurer, check your warranty, and we don't remove DPF, EGR or AdBlue systems. Read out over the phone, it also sorts out the delete customers before you set off in the van.
Through the year
Remapping searches barely move through the year. Stage 1 leans into spring.
UK searches for "remapping near me" sat at 8,100 in 10 of the last 12 months, rose to 9,900 in March and dipped to 6,600 in December, about 1.5 times from top to bottom.
UK searches for "remapping near me", by month
October 2025 to September 2026. Google Ads keyword data, rounded bands.
One budget all year round
With only March and December off the usual level, you can set a monthly spend and leave it, trimming in December.
Performance work peaks March to May
"stage 1 remap" ran at 5,400 a month from March to May and 3,600 at its lowest. Push stage 1 and stage 2 in spring and lean on economy and van maps the rest of the year.
Before you sign up
Five questions to ask any seller of remapping leads first.
The ICO expects a business that buys contact details to check where they came from, in proportion to the risk, and a seller's word that the data is fine isn't enough. No remapper has been named in an ICO case we could find; the ones that have hit home improvement firms are set out in our roofing leads guide.
- How many other remappers see each lead?
- What is the fee, and how much notice ends it?
- Who keeps the ad account and website if I leave?
- Do I pay for delete requests I turn down?
- Where did the driver fill in their details?
The third question is the one the sellers answer most differently, and it decides whether a year of paid clicks leaves you with anything when you stop.
Which way to go
Cheap legal clicks favour running your own, with the deletes kept out.
Use a seller if
- You have no reviews yet
- You answer within minutes
- The territory is truly yours
- The notice period is short
Think twice if
- The fee is only shown later
- The ad account stays with them
- The brand on the van is theirs
- Most of your work is stage 1
Run your own if
- You do vans, stage 2 or tractors
- You want deletes kept out
- You want repeat customers to ring you
- The ad account is yours to take
Remapping clicks are cheap enough that your own ads are a real option, and your own ad is the one place you decide which searches you pay for. Paint and panels belong to car body shop leads, glass film to window tinting leads and cleaning to car valeting leads; the rest are in our guide to trade leads. Bark has no remapping category, so read is Bark worth it before you buy credits.
Our sources
Where every remapping figure here came from.
We have a stake in this: we build websites and run Google Ads for trades, and some of the sellers above do the same for remappers. Their terms are quoted rather than paraphrased for that reason, and the per-lead column says plainly that its conversion rate was measured in America.
Seller pages and terms were read on 16 October 2026, and the UK search and click data came from Google Ads the same day. Job prices are from Confused.com, carwow, FixMyCar, Avon Tuning HD and two mobile remappers' price lists; tool and file prices from UK suppliers' own pages. The law is from gov.uk, regulation 61A, sections 75 and 76 of the Road Traffic Act, the MOT manual and two Parliament answers; insurance from LV=, Admiral and the RAC; and lead consent from the ICO.
Questions remappers ask
Remapping leads, answered.
- How much do remapping leads cost in the UK?
- Few sellers print a price per lead. Remap Network sells a whole territory for a fee it confirms only when you apply. Remapping Leads, the company, charges £139 a month plus VAT to run your Google Ads, with the clicks on top. FixMyCar starts at £120 a month plus VAT and 10% of the jobs you win. Buy the clicks yourself and a remapping search costs £1.15 to £3.12, roughly £16 to £43 a lead.
- Who sends remappers work in the UK?
- Remap Network (one remapper per territory), the Google Ads services built for remappers, FixMyCar's car remapping page, TrustATrader's engine remapping category and the file suppliers' dealer maps. Quantum Tuning says its site produces up to 250 leads a week across its dealers, and that not every dealer gets them. Bark and Checkatrade have no remapping category.
- Can I take DPF, EGR or AdBlue delete jobs?
- Not on a vehicle used on the road. gov.uk says removing a DPF "will almost invariably" make the vehicle illegal for road use, with fines of up to £1,000 for a car and £2,500 for a van. Since 1 January 2026 the Road Traffic Act counts installing software as fitting a vehicle part, and DVSA's Market Surveillance Unit can prosecute a business that carries out emissions tampering.
- Can a remap fail the MOT?
- Yes, if it touches the emissions kit or the engine light. The MOT manual makes emission control equipment that is missing or obviously modified a major fault, the same for a DPF that shows signs of tampering, and an engine warning light that shows a fault or doesn't work. A DPF car that puts out visible smoke of any colour also fails.
- Does the customer have to tell their insurer about a remap?
- Yes. LV=, Admiral and the RAC all say a remap is a modification to declare, and LV= says a claim may be rejected or cut if it is not. LV= also says it is difficult for insurers to tell a car has been remapped, which is why it has to come from the driver.
- Does a remap void the warranty?
- It can. Admiral says a remap not approved by the manufacturer or a dealer means the warranty "may be invalidated", and Land Rover's own warranty excludes repairs needed as a direct result of chip tuning it has not authorised. Avon Tuning HD puts about one tractor in five it sees still under warranty.
- Is remapping seasonal?
- Hardly. In the last 12 months UK searches for "remapping near me" sat at 8,100 in 10 months, rose to 9,900 in March and dipped to 6,600 in December. "stage 1 remap" leans harder into spring, peaking March to May.
- What should I ask before paying for remapping leads?
- How many other remappers see each lead, what the fee is and how much notice ends it, who keeps the ad account and the website if you leave, what counts as a lead, and whether you pay for requests you have to turn down, such as DPF or AdBlue deletes. The ICO puts the checking on the buyer.
Keep reading
More straight answers for trades.
Stage 2s, vans and tractors booked by drivers who searched for you.
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