Re: Dash warning light...link

["Stephen Bigelow" <sbigelow@sprint.ca>]

You can.....you just have to pay for the tool of course...

http://www.carcomp.com/


>getting more and more advanced processors, don't provide easier access to
data &
>controls anyway.  like why can't i pull codes from my A4?  and if the
answer is that
>it requires a more advanced interface than counting flashes, why does it
have to be
>proprietary rather than some RS-232 term emu?  i know you don't want biff
and buffy
>turning off the service light because the flashing is distracting them from
their cell
>phone call, but couldn't there easily be a non-documented perhaps slightly
onerous
>procedure to do this? plus all the neato keen convenience features that it
would be
>nice to have easy access too, and dealers will either charge for or refuse
to do.
>just wishful thinking i know, because the status quo helps keep the
customers
>umbilical to the mothership intact, a somewhat understandable business
decision.  (and
>in case anyone's thinking about it i don't need to hear flames about how i
am
>contractually obligated by the warranty not to modify my car or work on
it...)
>hmmm... someone needs to get the tech spec and write a GPL (that's a gnu
public
>license - read 'free') VAG1551/1552 emulator...
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