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Originally Posted by Bandycoot
Thanks guys. I've had a look at the Ross-tech wiki and whilst there is some very useful information on there I can honestly say I don't understand most of it.  I need to find out exactly what measuring blocks are, for example. Once I understand the basics I can then start to make headway with more complex procedures.
The problems I have at the moment are the steering slip ring needs calibrating and the ABS control unit needs coding. I found the procedure for doing this but don't really understand it. I don't want to start putting in the wrong information and end up totally immobilising my car. |
Hi
I could write you a text version if you really need it with step by step instructions if you really can't do/understand it.
Also if you lift your spare wheel floor cover and get the picture of a white sticker with all the info I could start with login and coding for your car which is essential for abs coding.
Are you sure ABS needs coding??
You may go away with steering angle sensor calibration, which is very easy it self, but for some users it takes many attempts to even having logging accepted but to put your self off because of that.
I found lowering suspension on D3 A8s almost consistent but, I've had cars which took few hours to do it and one which had only 22 instead of 55 coding accepted and didn't want to go another 5mm lower.
Cars like ours with soooooooo much electronics are really different, not always and not completely, but they can behave differently.
Again, don't put your self off, everything gets done, sometimes you just need to do extra thing or two.
Ideally get Auto Scan done and save it, location is your system partition if not changed, then Ross tech folder and then logs folder, and dont copy and paste text into reply window, just attach it as a txt document to your reply.
We could start from there to see what really bother you brakes/abs/steering wise.
Get the picture of that label and all possible info about the car, but not stuff such as colour of your leather
Speak to you soon mate
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