Airbag Warning Light Reset Tool Do they work?

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photon

A2OC Donor
Can anyone advise if the low cost re-set tools that are available on EBay for about £20 work?

In a moment of madness I turned on the ignition while swapping front seats for Sport seats so that I could identify a switched live supply to use for seat -heating and lumbar motors. Now I have the airbag warning light on (of course) and no-one around here (Edinburgh/Livingston) with Vag-Com kit.

Cheers
Photon
 
Have you posted a request for someone with VAG-COM?
Have you tried some other sites?
Audi-sport.net, Edition 38, even the TT forum (quite a helpful lot)

J


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Hi Photon,

I guess the answer is who knows?

There are many around who have bought either cheap Chinese vcds clone cables or cheap handheld devices and have managed to get them working.
From reading much in the past, software based versions can take a good deal of time and knowledge to setup and then they don't support very much other than reading fault codes.
Most handheld devices tend to be able to read most controllers and clear any stored fault codes, but the one area all seem to struggle with is airbags, although I believe this is mostly to do with re-coding.

I have seen some youtube clips with owners using VCDS-Lite with a cheap lead and being able to read and clear stored fault codes, but I can't help with the type of cable or the source.

I would hope you'd be able to read and clear codes with most devices, but the best option is, obviously, a genuine VCDS, but at around £350 it's not always affordable. However I guess you spent a fair amount on the seats, so my thinking is perhaps you should have factored in the cost of a diagnostic device as well.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I would always recommend scanning the car before commencing any work and then re-scanning once complete.....it gives great peace-of-mind.

Another really good reason for using a genuine VCDS is that if we were all to use the cheap copies there would be no money for R&D, Ross-Tech's application developers would go elsewhere and the product would end up fading away......pretty much as the outcome from any form of piracy (although I'm not preaching here as I'm not whiter-than-white).

I hope you get this sorted out and maybe someone local(ish) can help you out.

Cheers

Jeff
 
Thanks for your input.

I will post a request for Vag-Com owner local to me and hope to be able to contribute to their ownership of kit that would be nice to own but a bit expensive for me
 
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