1993 100 V6, I want to buy a VAG-COM but which do I need ? I'm a n00b
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1993 100 V6, I want to buy a VAG-COM but which do I need ? I'm a n00b
Hey guys, I have a '93 Audi 100. I've been doing some work on it and I have the dreaded air bag light thats always stuck on. I had it reset once by the dealer but the fo0l's charged me 125 bucks service. I was wondering if I can hook a vag-com up to my car via my laptop, but which one do I need to reset it and run diagnostics. And where would the connection go, I've looked all over the car for the adapter, but I guess I have not looked hard enough. Thanks for your help, you guys are gr8
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Your '93 100 has the Motor Management System (MMS) 300. The Data Link Connectors for this MMS...
are located in the the fuse/relay box, located in the plenum under the hood. VAG-COM is designed for OBD-II compliant cars (1996 or newer); your vehicle is OBD-I compliant. But you might be able to use VAG-COM if you can obtain the diagnostic cable 1551/1 interface. Ross-Tech should be able to advise if their program works with your MMS 300. Otherwise, you will need the VAG 1551 scan tool and the 1551/1 cable.
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Vag-Comm will work great on your 93, you need to convert to obdII
first go to the junk yard and grab a obdII plug from any 96+ car I used a honda, and go to the Faq's section and do the plug conversion. I went with the genaric cable route from cartech solutions for like $65 then registered the SW after i found out it did work on my 92 100s so in total I spent $165. if you don't want to do the conversion you can buy a adapter cable but it's like another $50 I got my plug from a honda free.
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Or just get a 2x2 adapter:
<center><img src="http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/images/VAS5051-2.jpg"></center><p><ul><li><a href="http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/interfaces.html#2x2">http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/interfaces.html#2x2</a</li></ul>
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