Any ebay cables let you clear fault codes?

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Any ebay cables let you clear fault codes?

Post by Glen » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:54 am

I have full paid ross tech software but cant stretch to the $350 at the moment for the original cable, plus its an emergency driving to Amsterdam Wednesday!

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RE: Any ebay cables let you clear fault codes?

Post by Blue_Thunder » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:35 am

I have a genuine Ross-Tech serial cable without a dongle. If you are sure that it's your software that's licensed (newer cables all have a dongle - hardware which stores the license), this should work fine for you.

Saying that, licensed software should in theory work with the eBay cables to.

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RE: Any ebay cables let you clear fault codes?

Post by PetrolDave » Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:31 pm

Some (most) of the eBay cables only work with older versions of VAG-COM either 3.11 or 4.09 see http://www.ross-tech.com/vcds/download/
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Re: RE: Any ebay cables let you clear fault codes?

Post by Blue_Thunder » Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:40 pm

PetrolDave wrote:Some (most) of the eBay cables only work with older versions of VAG-COM either 3.11 or 4.09 see http://www.ross-tech.com/vcds/download/
Don't think any cables other than the genuine Ross-Tech cables with dongles work on anything later than 409.1

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Re: RE: Any ebay cables let you clear fault codes?

Post by PetrolDave » Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:41 am

Blue_Thunder wrote:Don't think any cables other than the genuine Ross-Tech cables with dongles work on anything later than 409.1
There are some eBay cables that (briefly!) work with a hacked version of the 6xx version of VAG-COM.

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