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th3_f15t:
I'd recommend a simple fault scanner to carry around with you regardless, even the £25-50 ones will give you some sort of fault code to work with and give you hope when going into someone else for work. I got myself a Foxwell NT500 which is about half as much as VCDS but the number of times it's saved my bacon and helped me out has more than covered it's costs initially.
Dave J:
Agree with this ^^. I bought my VCDS cable on a group buy on ukmkivs.net many years back - I've never used it to change settings, but it has more than paid for itself when diagnosing my old mk4 and now the mk5.
For example, my CEL has just come on again - could be something serious, but plugging the car into vagcom has just shown it is the P0441 code which is just the brimming of the tank/charcoal canister emissions guff, so nothing to worry about! £60 saved by not having to go to a garage...
Hope your mistress is sorted soon Martin!
MC71:
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Thanks for info chaps. I'll get this sorted then get one. Ive just read on interweb there are different VCDS cables, a micro-CAN, a HEX USB+CAN and another one with WiFi/USB........all different prices. Less bothered about price but no point getting something I don't need or won't use and wasting money? :confused:
These peeps (below) what do I want and where from, best english supplier?
http://store.ross-tech.com/shop/cat/VCDS.html
dazza:
--- Quote from: MC71 on December 06, 2015, 06:53:37 pm ---^^^^
Thanks for info chaps. I'll get this sorted then get one. Ive just read on interweb there are different VCDS cables, a micro-CAN, a HEX USB+CAN and another one with WiFi/USB........all different prices. Less bothered about price but no point getting something I don't need or won't use and wasting money? :confused:
These peeps (below) what do I want and where from, best english supplier?
http://store.ross-tech.com/shop/cat/VCDS.html
--- End quote ---
This is where i got mine from.
HEX-USB+CAN
https://www.gendan.co.uk/product_VCHU.html
MC71:
Thanks @dazza :drinking:
Why the HEX over the Micro, any reason?
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