[s-cars] Vag-Com

[John Cunningham]

Gotta lubz innerwebz where people will argue with you then make basically the exact same point.  No time to read. Just post and argue.   I said I would and do exactly that and have such a cable as well as agreeing w toms identical advice.  Guess the 3 $ was enraging somehow.  Otherwise we agree.  

However I do think it's a bit in the bubble elitist to poo poo guys who don't see the ROI on $300 for a pre-OBDII car and in fact might be scraping for every quality oil change they can. I've met a lot of those guys. For them $125 for lite plus a cable fully does the job for now.  Don't see the need for such condemnation for those people not going full boat.   

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John J. Cunningham


> On May 15, 2014, at 22:46, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:
> 
> Hardly "$$$" really. The cost of a legit Ross-Tech cable is a few oil changes worth of good quality oil. Less than a set of tires. Probably less than a lot of us spend in CHF-11S in a year lol. If you are working on a car new enough to have a use for VCDS then it's cost is pretty insignificant compared to the cost of your car. 
> 
> If somebody is really that hard up I'd toss in $10 to kick off a donation towards not ripping off one of our planets few truly good businesses.
> 
> -Cody Forbes (mobile)
> 
>> On May 15, 2014, at 8:30 PM, John Cunningham <jc at j2c3.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Yep sure - I use a full $$$ VCDS for my Audi scanning & coding, but for somebody on a budget and an old platform, the Lite option is a good cheap-but-better-than-409 route including fact it does still respect RossTech. Not everybody can justify full $$$ for scanning the few primitive codes you get from an AAN. 
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>>> On May 14, 2014, at 5:29, Ian Duff <ian at inside-overlap.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I’ll pile on here.VAG-COM, now VCDS has been an invaluable resource to me for years. Questions answered promptly, great info on their web site. Don’t cheese out and buy a generic Asian clone, pony up and support Uwe Ross.
>>> -- 
>>> Ian Duff
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>>> On Mon 12 May, 2014 at 13:02:49, Taka Mizutani (t44tqtro at gmail.com) wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm just posting to second Cody's comments- support Ross-Tech as they are a  
>>> good company and you know their cable will work with their software, as it  
>>> should.  
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Cody Forbes <cody at 5000tq.com> wrote:  
>>>> 
>>>> Only buy from Ross-tech themselves. They are a wonderful company with a  
>>>> great product and support like none other on this planet. All other cables  
>>>> are unlicensed Chinese replicas and most will only work with VCDS-Lite, not  
>>>> the full program. Speaking to their support... VCDS-Lite exists because so  
>>>> many had bought fake cables and were disappointed that the fake cables  
>>>> would not work with updated software that they released a version of VCDS  
>>>> just to be compatible with UNLICENSED REPLICA CABLES!  
>>>> 
>>>> -Cody Forbes (mobile)  
>>>> 
>>>>> On May 12, 2014, at 11:15 AM, JR <audiurs4 at gmail.com> wrote:  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seems like there are several different models of Vag-Com device out  
>>>> there online and all over on Ebay. Is there a recommended unit that you  
>>>> guys buy?  
>>>>> 
>>>>> --  
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,  
>>>>> 
>>>>> JR  
>>>>> 
>>>>> --  
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