Which VCDS cable do I buy?
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That's what I don't get, how can a cable damage the ecu? The cable is only copper wire?
I can vouch for this!
I used a friends fake £50 ebay's finest cable and did some mods. Majority worked apart from when I tried to adjust the 'coming home light on' time - adjusted it from the standard to something like 1 minute: after hitting save and confirm; I got a load of lighting errors on my dash.. No lights were working at all. Tried to default the change but it wasn't having it.
Audi had to change the lighting control module. Obviously I didn't tell them I was messing with it and they luckily changed it under warranty.
I agree with you, I don't understand how a cable can differ and one can damage and one is fine, but I have first hand experience of a cheap cable doing serious irreversible damage
DO NOT BUY CHEAP CABLES. Either fork out for the proper one or go see someone who already has one and throw them some beers
I used a friends fake £50 ebay's finest cable and did some mods. Majority worked apart from when I tried to adjust the 'coming home light on' time - adjusted it from the standard to something like 1 minute: after hitting save and confirm; I got a load of lighting errors on my dash.. No lights were working at all. Tried to default the change but it wasn't having it.
Audi had to change the lighting control module. Obviously I didn't tell them I was messing with it and they luckily changed it under warranty.
I agree with you, I don't understand how a cable can differ and one can damage and one is fine, but I have first hand experience of a cheap cable doing serious irreversible damage
DO NOT BUY CHEAP CABLES. Either fork out for the proper one or go see someone who already has one and throw them some beers
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I'm trying to get somebody to do it but I'm not having much luck. I don't mind paying as I wouldn't ask anyone out of their way for nothing.I can vouch for this!
I used a friends fake £50 ebay's finest cable and did some mods. Majority worked apart from when I tried to adjust the 'coming home light on' time - adjusted it from the standard to something like 1 minute: after hitting save and confirm; I got a load of lighting errors on my dash.. No lights were working at all. Tried to default the change but it wasn't having it.
Audi had to change the lighting control module. Obviously I didn't tell them I was messing with it and they luckily changed it under warranty.
I agree with you, I don't understand how a cable can differ and one can damage and one is fine, but I have first hand experience of a cheap cable doing serious irreversible damage
DO NOT BUY CHEAP CABLES. Either fork out for the proper one or go see someone who already has one and throw them some beers
Fingers crossed somebody can help
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I've left a few messages and sent a few PM's so hopefully there'll be somebody out there......There's a VCDS map on here somewhere I think, shows where owners are that can help
It's not the cable it is the plug with all the brains in it you pay for.
Also with a genuine cable you will get all the support you need if you get it wrong from Rhoss tech as well.
It will save you money and when you no longer need it you will get most of your money back selling it on.
Also with a genuine cable you will get all the support you need if you get it wrong from Rhoss tech as well.
It will save you money and when you no longer need it you will get most of your money back selling it on.
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@NHN is the site supplier of genuine VCDS cables, the options you get on there are alot more indepth than the non genuine ones, you can do full logging and modifiying using the genuine cable, not sure how it works, but it does.
I have an ebay one but that is literally for fault code finding and clearing, anything more and you need a proper cable for it.
It maybe alot of money initially, but the pros and benefits of having it can easily make your money back.
I have an ebay one but that is literally for fault code finding and clearing, anything more and you need a proper cable for it.
It maybe alot of money initially, but the pros and benefits of having it can easily make your money back.
TomL83
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Contact NHN for a genuine vcds cable. Iv just bought one off him. Aswell I was a bit worried about spending £250 on a cable but I'd rather get a genuine one which I know will work properly than buy a fake.
Plus, of course, no one would be foolish enough to try and promote the sale or purchase of counterfeit goods here on the forum would they?
