Carista is a great budget option and will allow you to scan for faults and reset fault codes and also carry out some predetermined changes but it does not allow long coding or adaption channel changes
VCDS is the main tool for carrying out higher level changes and diagnosis, it has loads of functions and allows you to access long coding and all adaption channels etc as well as live view data/measuring blocks along with logging and the price reflects this
OBD Eleven sits somewhere in the middle on price and functionality
I guess it depends on exactly what you want to do with it ?
VCDS is the main tool for carrying out higher level changes and diagnosis, it has loads of functions and allows you to access long coding and all adaption channels etc as well as live view data/measuring blocks along with logging and the price reflects this
OBD Eleven sits somewhere in the middle on price and functionality
I guess it depends on exactly what you want to do with it ?
as @Pauly says:
Carista:
Carista - How I Done It -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carista-Bl...kOdA19xA-wD_S6jnNEoOkbZnlfQM3lJRoCe9wQAvD_BwE
Carista OBD2 App | Diagnose, customize and service your car
VCDS:
Ross-Tech: VCDS
Ross-Tech VCDS (VAG-COM) Packages :: Gendan Automotive Products
Ross-Tech VCDS
VCP:
VCP System :: official
OBD11:
https://obdeleven.com/en/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/OBDeleven-...?ie=UTF8&qid=1550166340&sr=8-1&keywords=obd11
Carista:
Carista - How I Done It -
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Carista-Bl...kOdA19xA-wD_S6jnNEoOkbZnlfQM3lJRoCe9wQAvD_BwE
Carista OBD2 App | Diagnose, customize and service your car
VCDS:
Ross-Tech: VCDS
Ross-Tech VCDS (VAG-COM) Packages :: Gendan Automotive Products
Ross-Tech VCDS
VCP:
VCP System :: official
OBD11:
https://obdeleven.com/en/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/OBDeleven-...?ie=UTF8&qid=1550166340&sr=8-1&keywords=obd11
Does anyone on here use OBD11?
Would it do the stop start disable and door mirror fold?
I cant find out if it does those, but it seems the pro version does some long coding.
Would it do the stop start disable and door mirror fold?
I cant find out if it does those, but it seems the pro version does some long coding.
I use OBD11 and have done my headlight main/dip coding fine with it. In general it works fine to flip bits in all the main modules. I’m not sure about mirror fold but I don’t think it will disable start/stop (but I don’t think VCDS can do that either?).
Think the vcp can do the stop/start disable, I know we looked into vcds at the northwest meet but was unable to go to anything.
Pretty sure @Pauly gas done a few with vcp.
Yes VCP can do it but there is a way with VCDS also that a few people have done successfully, @Loz has done it and works fine
If you search the start stop disable thread it’s a few pages in and involves tweaking one of the adaption channels so VCDS is fine but Carista can only do coding and not adaptions (afaik) so won’t be able to do it
If you search the start stop disable thread it’s a few pages in and involves tweaking one of the adaption channels so VCDS is fine but Carista can only do coding and not adaptions (afaik) so won’t be able to do it
I'm looking to reset 'airbag error' (occurred when disconnected, upgrading stereo)
Enable rear speaker fade
Possibly start/stop (truly annoying)
And any other features people would recommend.... what is the best tool please guys??
If Carista will do the error and rear speakers I'd be reasonably happy.
Enable rear speaker fade
Possibly start/stop (truly annoying)
And any other features people would recommend.... what is the best tool please guys??
If Carista will do the error and rear speakers I'd be reasonably happy.
Carista will reset airbags. Dont recall seeing an option for speakers however.
Jamessulivan.ap
New Member
As almost recommends above, I also think that Carista is a good choice. This is a review: https://www.obdadvisor.com/carista-bluetooth-obd2-adapter/, it's quite detailed, let's read it to see if it's suitable for you or not.
I do realise this is for T6's but tried to register on T4/T5 and had a computer generated message saying that my email address could not be contacted and blocked me saying it was spam. And as it's a very general question and knowing T5.1 and T6 are almost the same I thought I would ask as OBD11 code readers can be used by many different models
Hi all. Need to do an air bag reset and a startline steering wheel upgrade to a Polo Flat bottom GTI MFSW. Doesn't sound like Carista will do the latter so I assume ODB Eleven will do both?
How did you do this. I’ve got an OBDeleven and put in rear speakers. Getting fader would be good
Sorry, it was a while ago and I didn’t document it! I assume the setting is in a reasonably sensible place though, I don’t remember messing around with it too much. Have a look through the audio section and see if it’s there?
I can't find the correct bit either. If it's not too much trouble, and you have a chance in the future, would you mind taking a screen shot of your long coding please? Would be very grateful.
