Code reading

[Brett Dikeman]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:19 AM, Ed Kellock <ed.kellock at msn.com> wrote:
> A friend was kind enough to stop by this afternoon with his vag-com setup to
> reset my airbag.  We struck out with that, I think because we may not have
> followed the proper procedure.

You know that the airbag is not off the same connector as the ECU, right?

> We communicated with the Motronic and found 0533 Idle speed regulation 09-10
> Adaption limit surpassed, Intermittent.  Huh?

Sticky valve (easy to clean, use throttle cleaner), dirty throttle
(same- less than 10 minutes to remove the pipe and wipe down the plate
and spray the body), or post-throttle leak.

Also, if you haven't pulled codes or cleared them or disconnected the
battery in a long, long time- those codes could apply to long-since
gone problems. Drive it for a week and see what comes back.


> After he left when I discovered that we may not have followed proper
> procedure according to Bentley to talk to the airbag, I decided to try to do
> so with my El Cheapo code reader.  It would not power up with the trigger
> module disconnected, so I reconnected it and voila, recorded 3 codes and
> then cleared them.

Oh- oops, I guess you do know it's a different connector :)

-B