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[willni]

The Carista dongle was the first thing I thought when I read the first post too. Depending on how involved with settings you want to go the cheapo Carissa does lots and can be transferred to other car brands(?) too I think.

FYI folks regarding Carista or any obd plugs, they often do more harm than good when making those changes to your car. Plenty of reports of them changing a single digit in a random control module and flagging up an engine light, which takes extremely talented auto electricians hours to find the source of.

So just letting you know there's risk with them due to how generic they are.

[madstaff]

VCDS is really the best option, not the easiest to use as it's so powerful, but it's basically dealer level diagnostics.

I've scanned a GTI before using Snap On diagnostics and it's reported no faults, plugged VCDS in and it flagged up a fault code.

[Vwjap]

The Carista dongle was the first thing I thought when I read the first post too. Depending on how involved with settings you want to go the cheapo Carissa does lots and can be transferred to other car brands(?) too I think.

FYI folks regarding Carista or any obd plugs, they often do more harm than good when making those changes to your car. Plenty of reports of them changing a single digit in a random control module and flagging up an engine light, which takes extremely talented auto electricians hours to find the source of.

So just letting you know there's risk with them due to how generic they are.

thats why you use coding and not apps, because if something goes wrong you know exactly what to change back