I had alive tuning do a remap on mine and although it didn't make any differance to the mpg it really did up the performance and towing has been made alot easier, it's not the cheapest but i've no regrets.
had a quick look today and i must admit the noise seem's to come from the aircon compresser which is very close to the manifold so it's one or the other, anyway it's going in to get sorted on friday.