Just to be clear if you screw up your car...its not my fault. You can damage your engine and that was your choice to do so...just please be careful.

Purpose: The Tip recode tutorials I have seen have only talked about American AWD cars, I own a FWD and so I was interested in doing something similar to my car.

Background: When a non Quattro, or non American car has "00032" entered as a recode, it simply returns to the original code upon reboot. I have found a slightly modified version of the tip recode, which should allow anyone to recode.

Procedure: To perform this recode you need VAG-COM and a basic VAG-cable, the cheapest way to do this is via a serial cable (which can be purchased through eBay, I bought mine from "ezaudivw") and shareware version. The recode procedure is very simple, I will use my car as an example:

MY 2000 Front-Trac 2.8
  Software coding: 00004
  Workshop coding: 00000

While leaving the last number alone, because this is an indication of country and drive train, change the 10's places. Example:

MY 2000 Front-Trac 2.8
  Software coding: 00034
  Workshop coding: 00000

Changing the workshop code has no effect on the mod, it is a code indicating the last shop to work on the car. It should be left alone.

The values that are usable for the 10s place are:
  0 - stock
  1 - sport
  2 - hold gear until redline
  3 - both 1 and 2

Example values:
  0000X (stock)
  0001X (sport)
  0002X (hold gear)
  0003X (hold gear and sport)