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    3.0 TDI A6 Buyers Guide

    Autoscan scans all modules one by one. Not trying to hijack thread but it is a useful question for buyers, are all front wings and bonnets supposed to be aluminium? The A6 2006 brochure suggests so, but a few I have looked at are obviously steel as they have a bit of brown rust on chips or...
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    3.0 TDI A6 Buyers Guide

    Autoscan scans all modules one by one. Not trying to hijack thread but it is a useful question for buyers, are all front wings and bonnets supposed to be aluminium? The A6 2006 brochure suggests so, but a few I have looked at are obviously steel as they have a bit of brown rust on chips or on...
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    3.0 TDI A6 Buyers Guide

    I have had a look, seems the price of what i have is $349 now :note: Ouch. Back in the day I had the free version 4.19 (before VCDS Lite) and most labels were blank and things in the channels were not labelled. There was a warning not to scan the airbag as it could go off on some models and one...
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    3.0 TDI A6 Buyers Guide

    Good point about the availability of cheaper VACOM clones, I wanted to use later versions of the software which requires the genuine lead to act as a licence key.
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    S6 5.2l V10 aged 2006 + known issues etc

    Doesn't ones house staff normally worry about all of that?
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    3.0 TDI A6 Buyers Guide

    If you have a laptop, buy VAGCOM VCDS HEX CAN for £100 ish. I did this to find faults, but turned up other problems. I have looked at two A6s so far and both were found to be clocked when I ran a scan. It seems they clock them every year before the MOTs so that the mileages on only MOTs look OK...
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    2.5 TDI V6 Diesel Injection Pump Timing Woes?

    My car has just been off the road for a few weeks, but I'm not out of the deep water yet, first of all, it wouldn't start for love or money. I took it to a VW/Audi 'specialist' garage who said there was no fuel coming to the filter. They replaced the in-tank pump and then gave up and said they...