How To Use Vag-com

[dom-tune]

how do you use vag -com ?

where is the port?

ignition on or off ?

start program with it pluged into car or not ?

any help would be great as it is not working at the mo controller not found

regards Dom

[smitch]

Port is just below the pull down fuse cover by your right knee if sat in driver's seat. Don't pull this down as it is actually under the bottom of this Activate software, plug in to port then turn ignition on. There is a thread on making sure your computer is set to the right com port.

[sotal]

how do you use vag -com ? - Download VCDS-lite, buy the cable, assign a port between 1 & 4 (look up instructions), run

where is the port? - depends - mk2 as above mk1 was under the ash tray

ignition on or off ? - on, you can have engine running if you want (required for some parts)

start program with it pluged into car or not ? Don't think it matters but I plug into the car first

any help would be great as it is not working at the mo controller not found

regards Dom

 

 

You should be able to make it find the controller from the comfort of your house (doesn't need the car) - sounds like you need to reconfigure the com port. Go to device manager on your pc, find the virtual com port and go into the properties and find the bit to change the port settings - you need to set it to 1, 2, 3, or 4.

 

 

Make sure you download VCDS-Lite it's the replacement to Vag-com Free and is much more stable and works with windows 7 etc.

Edited November 29, 2010 by sotal

[dom-tune]

thanks chaps vag-com is poo just will not work, got vcds lite works ok now how

do you find things like aux heater sensor and heater temp ?do i have to register it?

regards Dom

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[sotal]

thanks chaps vag-com is poo just will not work, got vcds lite works ok now how

do you find things like aux heater sensor and heater temp ?do i have to register it?

regards Dom

 

VCDS Lite is just an updated version of vag-com, from what I've read they had no plans to improve the free vag-com, but they needed to do some work to rename it as the VAG group had complained about the name Vag-com so they put in some of the things they'd done to make the paid for version more stable. I had to play around with vag-com on the first laptop I used it on under XP and it wouldn't work under vista or win7, but VCDS just seems to wokr straight off on every installation I've tried.

 

When you open up VCDS Lite there is a box at the top left titled "Select Control Module", press the big Select button there. This gives you all the modules to try to connect to (there are more tabs at the top but you should be on common). Click on 18-Aux. Heat and it will load up another window where it tries to connect to the heater, if it succeeds you will get some green text at the top and you will then be able to read and clear codes.

 

Some of the other modules will work some won't it depends what's installed in the car, it's just a bit of trial and error to see what else works.

 

 

Just one other thing though you never did say if you have a mark 1 or a mark 2. If you have a mark1 then I don't think you can scan the aux heater

Edited November 30, 2010 by sotal