Vr6 Faults

[Scotty 0]

Heard a few people about running there car on Vag.com (Something Like That) to check for faults

What sort of price does this cost as my ABS is occasionally sticking ~

[mk3anni 0]

£45 for a cable, PM me RE software

[acf8181 0]

£45's pretty cheap for the cable...where you get it from?

i got one on the way to me for free thanks to the generosity of someone on cgti.

it would cost about £35 to get a garage to check the codes for you, and believe me you'll need it done a fair few times when owning a vr6...it really is impossible to locate a prob without doing that first, 90% of all vr probs seem to be electrical...i think they made it a bit too complex for its own good.

[Bampson 0]

wher can i get a cable for that price ?? Please please please

[bazz780 0]

me 2 i need one as well, someone PM me please

[mk3anni 0]

I got the peasent cable, the opto1. No good for data logging, but i'm not fussed about that atm!!

http://www.skpang.co.uk/catalog/index.php?cPath=21

[ Edited Wed Nov 03 2004, 06:52PM ]

[Bampson 0]

i see that this is OBDII only .. do you know where i cn get one for a OBDI??

[mk3anni 0]

ERrrrr, no idea tbh.

I thought the connections where the same on vag cars.

can anyone confirm??????????

[ Edited Wed Nov 03 2004, 07:29PM ]

[Bampson 0]

no .. i think the obd1 conection is only a two pin afair .. where as the obd2 has about ten or so ....

[mk3anni 0]

ODB2 is 5 pin. ODB1 i thought was 4.

On the ross-tech site there doesn't appear to be different connections for ODB1 and ODB2.

[ Edited Wed Nov 03 2004, 08:33PM ]

[acf8181 0]

early obd1's are 2pin+2pin, where as later ('94 on i think) have the same 16pin connector as all obd2.

early obd1 uses the obd2 cable with an adapter, i've only seen the adapter on the ross-tech site and it costs £35.

[Bampson 0]

does anyone know if the ros tech adapter will work with the sk pang lead ??

[acf8181 0]

i'd have thought it would, depends on the software tho.

maybe worth asking SK if they have the adapter.

[antera309 3]

Check the connector, as acf says, it is possible to have an OBD1 engine with an OBD2 connector. The OBD2 connector has two rows of 8 pins and is located beneath a flap just above the cigarette lighter.

If you have the 4-pin connector, there are adapters available to convert from 16-pin OBD2 to 4-pin (on the 16-pin OBD2, only 4 pins are used anyway)

Hope this helps!

[acf8181 0]

so, if they only use 4 pins of the 16 point one, surely you could just make an early obd1 connector out of four bits of wire and eight small spade connectors...providing you made sure they were plugged into the correct holes?

and i guess that means the software is the same?

[andy 0]

yes indeedy