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Offline Keithuk

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Re: vag.com cable
« Reply #10 on: 14 August 2011, 14:22 »
Gendan were best for me. Cheaper overall and next day delivery.
Not anymore it appears. I bought mine from ilexa for £264.16 last Christmas. VAT went up in January now they are £263.16. Genden is £264.95. Marshall is £265.99.

Thats for the HEX-USB+CAN if you only want to do small tweaks then you can use the Micro-CAN but I don't think you'll find many for sale in the UK though I've just seen one on eBay Genuine Rosstech VCDS/Vagcom Micro CAN usb for £159.09.

If price is the biggest concern you can buy a VAG-COM cable cheap of eBay and use the VCDS Lite software but it has limited features.

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Re: vag.com cable
« Reply #11 on: 14 August 2011, 14:37 »
Rhyso and I keep talking about doing a group buy for VCDS - anyone interested?
I'm not sure if you would get much discount on a group buy but there is no harm in trying. I asked all the distributors if they would do a discount for the college where I worked and they all said no apart from Gendan who said they could give a 20% discount for the college.

I contacted the distributors again and said Gendan can give a 20% discount for a college can you match that? They all said no we can't and they don't know how Gendan can offer this as all cables come from Ross-Tech in the States and they all show the basic price they get them for.
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Re: vag.com cable
« Reply #12 on: 14 August 2011, 14:40 »
i would be interested in a group buy
does the one at £20 do the cornering lights/bluetooth on etc

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Re: vag.com cable
« Reply #13 on: 14 August 2011, 18:52 »
Gendan were best for me. Cheaper overall and next day delivery.
Not anymore it appears. I bought mine from ilexa for £264.16 last Christmas. VAT went up in January now they are £263.16. Genden is £264.95. Marshall is £265.99.
I got mine last Christmas from  Marshalls as i wanted the case and manual.
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Re: vag.com cable
« Reply #14 on: 14 August 2011, 22:05 »
Yes I thought about a case but you only get that if you have and HEX-USB Power Bundle, my lead fits in my laptop case. The manual you can download.
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Re: vag.com cable
« Reply #15 on: 14 August 2011, 22:11 »
i would be interested in a group buy
does the one at £20 do the cornering lights/bluetooth on etc

Not sure if we could advocate "snide" VCDS  :grin:

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« Reply #16 on: 14 August 2011, 22:57 »
Yes I thought about a case but you only get that if you have and HEX-USB Power Bundle, my lead fits in my laptop case. The manual you can download.
Yes from Gendan, but the hex-can lead ONLY(not the power bundle) from Marshalls cames with a plastic case and a metal bound manual the other places just send a cable. 
Yes you can download the manual but its a nice thing to have in a proper printed binded copy imo for what at the time when i bought mine was £3 more than other places were charging for just the cable and i got the plastic case, manual, install instructions, the cable and also a copy of the program on CD.
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