Is The Galaxy Odbii ?

[keyline]

Having looked around and browsed these forums I felt sure my 2003 Galaxy 1.9TDi had an ODBII connection, so bought one off an eBay seller with the VAG-COM (409.1) software supplied.

 

At first the software wouldn't run on Vista but luckily I've an older Lappy that had XP on it. I installed the drivers for the cable and launched the software. Went to options, did the test for the cable and it found it and seemed happy.

 

Connected to my car switched on ignition as instructed but can't seem to scan any modules on my car. On the Auto-Scan I chose a Chassis type of "7M - VW Sharan", but after quite some time and it came up with no results (there is a fault on the car by the way). During this time it seemed to be scanning (I think it said trying) different ports/ modules. Different numbers and letters were coming up anyway.

 

I tried "Select Control Module" and tried several modules independently but could not get any results.

 

I then tried ODB-II button to check for OBD-II compatibility but it said it could not find any compatibility (or words to that effect).

 

So is this cable compatible with the Galaxy or not ? Have I set it up wrong ? This was the cable I bought;

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=310195561202

 

Any help appreciated as I'd like to track down the fault my car is trying to tell me about ;)

Edited February 1, 2010 by keyline

[Jayton]

I think you'll find you may need the newer cable that's only available from Ross Tech (or ebay when people are upgrading to a newer cable).

 

The Ross Tech website says 2002/2003+ cars need the new type of cable, now I don't know if that means any new car designed after then or any car made after then. I would have assumed it meant any car made after then.

 

 

Try this if you want:

If the device is listed as using an FTDI driver download the latest from:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm

 

Change the port to 3 in device manager, if there is something using com3 try change that device to another port, or force it to use com3 and reboot with the cable plugged in.

 

Goto the car, plug the cable in to laptop & car, turn car to 'On' or start the car with the engine running either will do.

Start VAG-COM and do the test against com3 in the options.

 

I kept trying to test it while it was not plugged in and it returned with the error, I was doing this because someone on another forum said it should still test OK. Tried with it plugged in and it worked! ;)

[keyline]

Thanks very much for that reply, I will try that hopefully this weekend and report my findings.

[matthew_narvik]

Does that mean I need to buy the cable from Ross-Tech for my 2004 Sharan (1.9 tdi)? I need to find out what the codes are on the Aux heater and get it working. Brrrr....

[big_kev]

Does that mean I need to buy the cable from Ross-Tech for my 2004 Sharan (1.9 tdi)?

 

No the cheapo ebay type cable will work fine.