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General => The garage => Diagnostics - VagCom / VCDS => Topic started by: greencode on 17 September 2009, 23:07

Title: VAG for mk3 questions
Post by: greencode on 17 September 2009, 23:07

Forgive me if this is obvious but my ABS light has come on and VW are wanting to charge me £40 just to do a diagnostics check - something I can do myself I presume. A couple of quick questions:

1. I've seen a cable (OBD2 OBD-II 2 USB VAG KKL Cable for 409.1) on eBay - would this do? It also says "usable for ISO9141 and KWP2000 transmission protocol"
2. Where is the port that I connect it to on a MK3 16V GTI?
3. Is it fairly self explanatory when I run the software i.e. will it just runt the diagnostics and then give me an error code?

Thanks for anybody's help with this - quite a daunting task when you haven't done it before  :huh:

Title: Re: VAG for mk3 questions
Post by: boneybradley on 17 September 2009, 23:13

check out ross tech's website as you can get vag-com basic free as a download and they also have helpfull advice on the site
ross-tech.com (http://ross-tech.com)

Title: Re: VAG for mk3 questions
Post by: greencode on 17 September 2009, 23:22

Thanks for this - it seems like there's a lot of info on their site - great stuff!

Can someone tell me though where the VAG interface is located on the mk3 golf? Is it above the ashtray?

Title: Re: VAG for mk3 questions
Post by: boneybradley on 17 September 2009, 23:24

yep..remove ashtray slide cover and there it is

Title: Re: VAG for mk3 questions
Post by: greencode on 17 September 2009, 23:24

Thanks so much for your help with this... I'll get to work with it at the weekend and see what I can find.