Talk:VCDS (software)

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Ross-Tech[edit]

Hi,

I'm the original author of the VAG-COM software and the owner of the company that publishes it. I don't know who created this article. As I do not wish to be perceived as using Wikipedia as an advertising medium, I will not enhance the article, but will edit if there are factual errors -- as there were in the paragraph regarding VAG-COM's support for generic OBD-II.

Specifically I changed "any" to "many", since VAG-COM does not work with cars and trucks using the SAE J1850 physical layer for OBD-II. It only works with cars that use ISO9141, ISO14230, and ISO15765.

I also changed "built and sold in the United States" to "sold in the United States" because where a vehicle is built is irrelevant to the matter and original semantics imply that it won't work with any cars built outside the USA.

As far as notability:

VAG-COM was written up in PC Magazine in in June of 2002. A reprint of the article is available here: http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/images/Hack-Your-Car.pdf (PDF)

VAG-COM was also written about in European Car Magazine in November of 2001. Reprint here: http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/images/Tool-of-Month.pdf (PDF)

If the editors decide that does not meet the guidelines for Notability (software) and decide to delete the article, I fully understand.

Uwe Ross; 2006
Ross-Tech, LLC

—Preceding unsigned comment added by UweRoss (talk • contribs) 13:25, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Took out notability[edit]

Although VAG-COM isn't well known, I'm doing basic research on OBDII for a technical writing class and from what I've read so far it's one of the ways to translate raw OBDII electrical signals into something a computer can read from a serial port. It's obscure, but in the world of OBD, VAG-COM seems to be important. see http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/ or look on eBay for obdii to serial connectors and you'll find VAG-COM mentioned as one of the interface layers between the OBDII Connector and your computer. Krymson 17:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

VAG, Volkswagen/Audi, "No Meaning"[edit]

The author seems to be mislead here. As far as I can tell VAG was always meaningful, it was just not an acronym. "Volkswagen AG" was the company name, "AG" being the german type of company that gives out shares/traded in the public, a short hand version of "Aktiengesellschaft". "Aktien" = Shares. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.79.9.138 (talk) 14:44, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to the reference cited in the article [1], written by Bertel Schmitt, a former marketing consultant for Volkswagenwerk AG, there was no official meaning ascribed to the acronym "VAG", for legal reasons. To quote: So they came up with V.A.G. It could have stood for anything: Volkswagenwerk AG, Volkswagen AG, Volkswagen Audi Gesellschaft, you name it. Intentional ambiguity. But it was highly verboten to say what the acronym stood for. Letdorf (talk) 22:46, 16 April 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Activation of VCDS-Lite for 3rd-party "dumb" interface.[edit]

Hi.

Activation will be de-activated if you make changes to your computer like changing CPU. This will force you to ask for another activation. And if you have changed PC`s once before you will not be granted a new activation code even if it is on the same computer. Here is the mail i received from Uwe Ross.

Yes, changing the CPU will make VCDS-Lite think it is running on a different PC.It is quite rare that people change CPUs in laptop PCs.

Since you have already had your one-time change of PCs in February of this year, your choices are:

1) Put the original CPU back,

2) Upgrade to a full VCDS system using one of our dongle-type interfaces: http://store.ross-tech.com/shop/cat/Outright.html

Regards,

-Uwe-

So to all users of VCDS-Lite do not make changes to your computer cos it might make you have to buy another license.

Regards

Kjell — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.212.200.151 (talk) 17:15, 10 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]