4.2 TDI - front suspension overhaul

[mattylondon]

Originally Posted by tc4332

Hi Del,
The link took me to a webpage.
What do I do to download/use ETKA?
Cheers
Ray

You have to download the ZIP file. Within it there is a text file with the URL's where to download ETKA

[Delboy]

What Matt said^^^^^

[tc4332]

OK , I'm starting to stagnate
managed to download the zip files, extracted them and landed up with a "ETKA" file on my C drive.
Tried to follow the instructions,

1. Says "Install Hardlock.exe". Duh, I double click on the file and up comes "Lizensierung" which I think is asking for a registration number.
2. Says "Run Emulator.exe". Up comes a window with start button, click this and it says already running.

I have given up.


Now SWMBO is demanding that I drop everything and take her shopping.
We are in London this weekend, marching at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday.

[Adrian E]

The hardlock emulator gets around the requirement for a dongle, which official users have as part of their licence. It only works on 32 bit OS so if you have a 64 bit PC that may be the reason for the error. The workaround to that is to install ETKA in a Virtual Machine (I use VMWare Workstation) with a 32 bit operating system installed. Anything beyond XP in a 32 bit flavour will do.

If your OS is 32 bit, try manually disabling the hardlock emulator and restarting it.

Run: ETKA\PROG\hldrv32.exe
Run: ETKA\PROG\emulator.exe Stop (bottom button)
Reboot
Run: ETKA\PROG\emulator.exe Start (top button)

[tc4332]

Thanks Adrian,
You have just hit the nail right on the head.
I'm using a 64 bit laptop, so I will have another go next week when we are back from London.
If I was going to be on my own I would arrange a meet with you but SWMBO and two 14 year old granddaughters will be with me. Driving down on Friday hoping to be away by 11:00 and in the hotel well before tea time. Leave the car at the hotel and catch the tube into town for dinner and a wander. Saturday will be kicking and screaming being dragged round Oxford Street.

[snapdragon]

Also have a look at mister-auto.
My original parts were TRW, so I bought TRW from mister-auto, when they came they were genuine VW/Audi but with the logo ground off.

[centurion]

thanks guys...

Originally I was planning to bought the stuff of Mister Auto and either go with Lemforder or TRW which I suppose cannot go 'wrong' quality wise.

What do you think of Febi Bilstein as some of their rods/control arms are 10-15% cheaper which would save us some money that can go towards labour cost. e.g. any good?


rgds

[tipptop]

Can't you just use this..?

http://www.partscats.info/audi/en/?i=cat_vag_models

Is there some reason to download and mess with emulators? Can you put in a VIN then?

[Adrian E]

You can - that's based on Etka page dumps, but not sure how often it's updated?

I've used Etka offline for years and find it useful - especially as I have the updated price files so always know in advance whether a quoted price is a decent discount or not.