Rosstech cable wanted

[daviesbike]

can + hex 2 cable wanted im tired of not being able to use vag come or vcds with my silly gendan cable with its problems connecting with the D3,

i cant get my vag com to work for love nor money and i seem to think its the cable, i get no response from controller
and its doing my nut in now

[richardracer]

Hello,

I am also keen to buy someone's Ross-tech cable if there are 2 available (after you daviesbike).

Keen to get to know my d3 s8 after 7 years of BMW diagnostics!

Anyone with a spare can you pm me.

Thanks

Richardracer.

[Night Train]

IIRC Guy, that cable's only compatible with the D2, which might explain your problem. I acquired my genuine rosstech from someone who sold his D2 for a D3 '8'....

[RanjS8]

The later audis use canbus for diagnostics, where as D2s used an older protocol KW1871 I think. Hence you have two versions of the ross tech cable. One cable is enabled for canbus and the other is not.

The canbus enabled cable will be fine for d3s and later audis....I used mine on my 2008 vw caddy without an issue. In fact with the older cable, I could still do diagnostics however I couldnt update the service interval on the instrument cluster. Had to use the canbus enabled cable to do this.

Both genuine cables you can order from Ross tech website...but I would go for the canbus enabled one as it is backwards compatible.

[daviesbike]

So what your saying then is if i get another cable that is a Can cable then it should work rather than the KW cable that i have now then, that would make sense, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAG-K-CAN-...#ht_3570wt_754

this jobby should do me nice then i will order that asap

[richardracer]

Hi Guy,

Are you also bidding oN the Tehran can bus cable? Seems silly to bid against each other.

Cheers

Richard

[daviesbike]

hi there sorry no i was not bidding but thanks for asking,im still looking at the one in the link above, its a buy it now, im waiting for the misses to sort her pay pal she had a new bank card and she has to link it again ect

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by daviesbike

So what your saying then is if i get another cable that is a Can cable then it should work rather than the KW cable that i have now then, that would make sense, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAG-K-CAN-...#ht_3570wt_754

this jobby should do me nice then i will order that asap

That's VAG Commander cable for changing mileage, getting PIN for immobiliser, resetting airbags not the diagnostics cable.

[ainarssems]

Originally Posted by daviesbike

So what your saying then is if i get another cable that is a Can cable then it should work rather than the KW cable that i have now then, that would make sense, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAG-K-CAN-...#ht_3570wt_754

this jobby should do me nice then i will order that asap

That's VAG Commander cable for changing mileage, getting PIN for immobiliser, resetting airbags not the diagnostics cable.



What you want is :
http://store.ross-tech.com/shop/VCHUC.html

cheap clone:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VAG-COM-VC...ht_3376wt_1396

or VAS5054A clone :

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Free-Shipp...ht_5348wt_1163

[Godders]

I got mine from here :

http://www.mi-uk.com/products/access...om-diagnostic/

UK supplier