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Model specific boards => Golf mk3 => Topic started by: AlexMozza on 07 October 2010, 20:28
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Just noticed that my Airbag and ABS lights don't light up any more so Im planning on using vagcom to see if that helps, anyway had a look on the site and cant seem to find any info on what type of cable in need for my GTI to go from Laptop to car :(
Its a 1997 MK3 GTi 8V
Thanks :)
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OBDII....commonly found on the bay for a tenner Mate
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but dont buy the ones for a tenner...none of them work because they use a cloned chip or something...my bro's bought 2 of them, and neither of them have worked. If your gonna buy one, dont get it off ebay
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No offence Mate but plenty of people on here have bought the ten pound ones and they are using them regularly.
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:shocked: how the bloody hell they managed that? weve tried with two different cables, and allsorts of different programs and everytime its always reported that it cant conect to the car, or the cable has a cloned chip or some other pish. Anybody got any good "how to" guides to get them working?
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mate you should have said when you was at mine earlier i would have scanned your car for you lol i have vag com btw :smug:
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Yeah I've got an ebay tenner jobby and it works perfectly well. Sometimes it can be a bugger to install and set up, but eventually it will work. It's worked well since I bought it and it does the same job as the £200 counterpart :smiley:
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HOOOW!!!????? lol. followed the instructions on the disc that came with the cables, but for all that that achieved id have been as well sticking it up the cats arse and trying to run diagnostics on that.
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it does the same job as the £200 counterpart :smiley:
apart from free updates and support for life, module coding/adaptations, live data logging and my personal favourite.. a chipset that doesn't destroy airbag ECUs on a regular basis :laugh:
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it does the same job as the £200 counterpart :smiley:
apart from free updates and support for life, module coding/adaptations, live data logging and my personal favourite.. a chipset that doesn't destroy airbag ECUs on a regular basis :laugh:
Well yeah, I meant to put that but I just couldn't type fast enough :laugh:
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My £10 jobbie works fine for me :smiley:
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mate you should have said when you was at mine earlier i would have scanned your car for you lol i have vag com btw :smug:
DAMN! Only noticed on the way home lol
Im gunna go for the £10 one on Ebay i think, only lose £10 if it goes to sh*t!
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Does the eBay cable come with the software?
Anyone got a link?
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the reason you had probs could be you tried the wrong software with it. the cheapo ebay cables only work with the old 409.1 version of the software and i think the vcds-lite version.
you cant use the latest full vcds version as for this one you need a maore expensivce cable, these have the software licence built in which is why they cost so much
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I have both, VCDS HEX-USB and ebay cheap un. Both work fine on the Mk3 Golf.
The free software is now called lite. http://www.ross-tech.com/vcds-lite/download/index.html
The only problem with the unregistered one is that you cannot do a fault code scan, but on the mk3 there are not many modules to choose from, so it's easy.