Need a new VAG Com lead

[prj]

lol prj, the site you have recommended sells the 409.1 cable cheapest $8.25 so if you wanted a bullsh!t lead your right you would save yourself around £4.00 rrp ebay prices. all the other vag leads are hundreds of dollars, and obviously the wait for the ship time etc, im not too sure it is a rip off, nor are the some 60 odd customers who have bought the lead same as me!

rusty, it could well be the same problem in that case i had with the vag106 lead? just up to you how far you want to go with it, resistor costs £1.50 and depends how handy you are with a soldering machine i guess

I recommend you get some reading comprehension.

http://www.ecutool.com/VWAUDI-Diagnostic-Cable-V1180-VCDS-HEX-USB_7953.html

That's 22$ or 13.70 GBP for the cable, that you paid 50 for.

And yes, paying 50 GBP for the same cable is a ripoff. I've bought about 20 cables from that site and never had problems.

[Rusty]

They also have this cable -

http://www.ecutool.com/SUPER-VWAUDI-Diagnostic-Cable-V1110_2066.html

[Biggss2]

My cables similar to the second one rusty found.

[Error404]

Alex, did yours come with VCDS Lite?

no just the lead mate, but you can DL it in a few minutes

[Rusty]

Can't seem to find the vagcom cables on ecutool... Are tehy now NLA?

[SteveH]

I bought one from them and went back for another, can't find them either.

[Rusty]

A VAG Lite key is £65 but my lead isn't the most reliable, so it seems a bit pointless to pay money to use something that crashes when you view live data for more than a minute or so.

[Biggss2]

I can get hold of the latest vag 11.11 lead if you are interested.

It's not rosstech, but uses full version of VCDS.

A very stable lead and no comms like previous leads I have used.

Not cheap tho £85+p&p (lead+software CD)

[stocious]

ok not being very computor savvy with cables and all.. i now have vcds lite downloaded onto laptop, for use with my 1991 s2. which cable/cables do i need. i pressume i need two. one from laptop, then one from end of that to old school plugs right?

[DJones]

Must admit I went through many cheep leads and plumped for the full registered Hex-Can USB lead in the end. Ross -Tech support is great and the lead has more than paid for itself in beer money helping people out...

[Biggss2]

Dj jones- you sir are not a knock off Nigel lol

[Ross]

I've been looking at this, had an intermittent engine light on the RS6 and also want VDCS for taking codes on the RS2 as well. I'd go for a cheapo cable and 'lite' but I'm tempted to stump up for the Ross-Tech and consider it an investment. Just seems a bit steep at £265, considering I just want to check codes most of the time. Are there many features on the full version that justify paying the extra price?

[stocious]

its just for codes i want it also..

[newsh]

For the 3B I bought an ebay ODB lead and a 2+2 adapter, total about 15 quid IIRC plus 311-2 version of Vagcom which I can email to whoever wants it. The lead was from a seller called Alphabid. This has been faultless for a few years now. For logging the RS4 I use my mate's Rosstec lead and VCDS my ebay lead doesn't fit the socket in the car.

[stocious]

cheers newsh. will look ito that.