VCDS Wiki - Help needed :) - Advice wanted!

[lew321]

Looking good.   
Now that I've got my GTI I will properly get into VCDS. Any suggestions where to get all the necessary items and what is needed? A cable and software I'm guessing.

[noobmonkey]

Also forgot to add, please can people send me through pictures they want to go on the top banner - i'll put them on a random load/rotate

The limits are:
580 * 100  (Max and Min Size)
Shades of Gray & White (More preferable to B&W)
Picture choice - cars are good, but VCDS / VAG-COM related please!

- Will add an upload form, or do a forum post - or post here of course

[jivemonkey]

Looking good.   
Now that I've got my GTI I will properly get into VCDS. Any suggestions where to get all the necessary items and what is needed? A cable and software I'm guessing.

I got my cable from the same place as most folk on here, an authorised Ross-Tech reseller Gendan. The Micro-CAN works perfectly well if all you'll be using it for is the latest generation vehicles from the VAG group

Link: http://www.gendan.co.uk/product_VCMC.html

The software itself is free, the licence is held in the cable dongle so will work whenever it's plugged in. I've used on multiple machines (my MacBook pro running VMWare and work laptop running Win7) with no problems at all.

Can be downloaded from Ross-Tech site: http://www.ross-tech.com/vcds/download/current.html

[noobmonkey]

Looking good.   
Now that I've got my GTI I will properly get into VCDS. Any suggestions where to get all the necessary items and what is needed? A cable and software I'm guessing.

Hey Hey! And awesome!

Yes literally a cable and software.

The software is free, the cable less so ( http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/hex-usb+can.html ).  The general advice is to get a Rosstech cable. but they aint cheap.  So borrow one locally if you can.

[lew321]

Thanks for the info & link.

Think I will order the cable first. Shame my current diagnostic equipment at work doesn't work with cars. If anyone has a Combine Harvester or Tractors I can soon tell you what's wrong with it, and yes tractors need diagnostic tools 

[noobmonkey]

Thanks for the info & link.

Think I will order the cable first. Shame my current diagnostic equipment at work doesn't work with cars. If anyone has a Combine Harvester or Tractors I can soon tell you what's wrong with it, and yes tractors need diagnostic tools 

Haha awesome, you might need your own forum space and entry system for those!

[KyleB]

Superb! Lots on here and other forums to copy across. Enabled comments on the posts too so getting there the more the merrier

currently only mk7 golfs targeted but will see how it goes for other similars. Easy to add

kyle I've got a genuine cable you could have used instead of buying the Chinese copy.

Cheers for the offer mate. Tried my cheapo cable tonight and managed to get alarm chirp to work.

Will have more of a play tonight. Great site, cheers guys.

[noobmonkey]

nice!

Thats 1 thing i want to try and do is keep an eye on cables, types etc, and if they work list them

[noobmonkey]

Right, quite a few updates: (http://vcds.greg-roberts.com)

Tidied up - stylesheets etc, including VCDS entry and detail display

• Decided to use the instructions/descriptions fields to add images (Sorry, but easier for now until i fix the back end)
• Added a general search, but it does search the VCDS Entries
• Added lots of Forum changes etc
• Added pictures to most of the VCDS entired that had them
• Added How to's in the forum
• Added Help page (With links to ROSS-TECH pages)
• Fixed the "Last 5 entries" at the bottom of the home page"

Still to do: (And i need help doing )

• Adding more changes, things like the XDS or other changes added recently (Rear lights on brake etc) all to be added
• Sort out image uploads in VCDS entries, but well, the description field method works...
• Order the domain name (Gonna go generic, in case it expands from the golf/MK7!) - thinking just VCDSWIKI.com or similar?

[KyleB]

Just checked the site today and can't seem to find any entries?