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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #20 on: 01 April 2008, 21:32 »
furry muff so what ur sayin is dont bother unlles u can afford the real deal
and totaly agree with th rip of britain poxy place lol

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #21 on: 01 April 2008, 21:37 »
furry muff so what ur sayin is dont bother unlles u can afford the real deal
and totaly agree with th rip of britain poxy place lol

yeah basically IMO. Others have different views  :smiley:

if you want it purely to scan fault codes etc i'd get one of those hand held scanners :afro: probably more reliable

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #22 on: 01 April 2008, 21:42 »
very tru did only want it for fault finding tbh my dad has a hand held 1 was bout 300 quid but i plugged it into my m8s audi said was all ok then it went to a local garage got pluged in there and had quite a few faults weird a

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #23 on: 01 April 2008, 21:42 »
OR, go to someones house that has vagcom :)

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #24 on: 01 April 2008, 21:45 »
very tru did only want it for fault finding tbh my dad has a hand held 1 was bout 300 quid but i plugged it into my m8s audi said was all ok then it went to a local garage got pluged in there and had quite a few faults weird a

Strange that. My cheap hand held is very helpful TBH

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #25 on: 01 April 2008, 21:49 »
very tru did only want it for fault finding tbh my dad has a hand held 1 was bout 300 quid but i plugged it into my m8s audi said was all ok then it went to a local garage got pluged in there and had quite a few faults weird a

Strange that. My cheap hand held is very helpful TBH
he uses it in the garage on other cars and finds allsorts mine was clear to thats y i just wanted to check mine on vagcom altho i think its fine as have no issues but u never know

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #26 on: 01 April 2008, 21:51 »
very tru did only want it for fault finding tbh my dad has a hand held 1 was bout 300 quid but i plugged it into my m8s audi said was all ok then it went to a local garage got pluged in there and had quite a few faults weird a

Strange that. My cheap hand held is very helpful TBH
he uses it in the garage on other cars and finds allsorts mine was clear to thats y i just wanted to check mine on vagcom altho i think its fine as have no issues but u never know

I see. Yeah the £300 one do all cars, The cheap one i have only does vw from 96 to currant.

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #27 on: 02 April 2008, 09:40 »
id only want one that does my car not really bothered about the rest lol

though the vw also do audi yes? o they do seat as well?

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #28 on: 02 April 2008, 09:48 »
id only want one that does my car not really bothered about the rest lol

though the vw also do audi yes? o they do seat as well?

yep - it should do all VAG group cars, so in theory it should be able to scan the Veyron  :laugh:

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Re: understanding vagcom
« Reply #29 on: 02 April 2008, 14:16 »
ah brill well deffo sommit to go on my wish list then :)