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Old 3rd November 2022, 11:18 AM
HPsauce HPsauce is offline
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Default Can VCDS configure anything useful on an 8V S3?

Thoughts that occured to me yesterday after running a VCDS scan on a mates manual S3, the 8V version which has a 2-litre turbo chucking out about 300bhp.
We were looking for reasons why he'd had a major "running like a dog" issue earlier in the day but found absolutely nothing and it's now running sweetly!

But that made me wonder, is there anything beyond the usual diagnostics in that era of Audi S3/A3 that can usefully be configured by VCDS?
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