I don’t know how VW Israel do it but in the UK you have to go through a very rigorous checking procedure as well as buying the VAS6154a interface (via our parts system in our case) and I think it was around £1500, then there is the hourly usage fee of 10 Euro. Another thing I would say Uwe, it is probably the worst piece of software I have ever used, one of my friends is also a VAG specialist and he will only use it for everything, I can’t convince him to use and I think he is mad! People ask me why I use and my simple answer is nothing comes close and it does 95% of what I need, it has paid for itself hundreds of times over.
I have both and also (With geko) they both have there place and times where each is needed.
The difference in main stream use is if you know what your doing!
guides you through the complete job starting by showing all faults then prioritising the the faults and suggesting a test plan on how to fix
Once you start a test plan it will guide you through how to test showing where to probe and record what reading you get (it used to give you min/max now you enter the reading and it tells you if it ok)
This system is great if you don't have the knowledge on system as it should guide you through, but it doesn't always work and also takes a long time!
- scan very quickly and just gives you the faults codes - it then upto you to decide what to do.
With when you know what your doing you can scan the complete car, perform some tests and know what wrong within 15-20min
takes 10-15 min just to scan the car and decide which code to look at first.
