So that got me thinking that maybe I could do something similar in software that runs on a PC and a generic cable. The only downside is that his software runs on a custom circuit board and that's a barrier to most people. He's made all the info available for free.
Mike has done the amazing job of reverse engineering 8 (so far) VW/Seat/Skoda radios and has found various hidden commands and discovered ways to retrieve the Safe code from most of them via the K-Line and some open-source hardware/software that he created. I've had lots of trouble getting it to run at all on newer computers.įast forward to a couple of months ago: I bumped into Mike Naberezny's GitHub page: I've also always wanted to use VDS-PRO to enable the "Roll windows up/down with key fob" CCM feature and other options, but it only runs on DOS and hasn't been maintained in many years. If I set the odometer to 0, they can adjust it to the correct value with VCDS, but no VagTacho, no SKC, no start. If I sell a cluster to someone, they need to know their SKC in order to install it. And it's not only me that needs these tools. (I eventually did by a real copy of VAGdashCOM after having lots of trouble with flaky eBay VagTacho cables). You can find cheap pirated copies of many of these, but some still require special cables and you never know what malware might be lurking on the plain white mini-CDs that the software comes on. The problem is that legitimate copies of these tools cost hundreds of dollars and require special dedicated cables. Since I have a part-time "business" (really more like a hobby at this point) involving fixing up MKIV instrument clusters and reselling them, VagTacho or similar (VAG Commander, VAGdashCOM, VAG EEPROM Programmer, etc.) is a necessity. However there are things that VCDS doesn't do, such as pulling the SKC from an instrument cluster, changing the odometer of a used cluster, reading/writing bytes in the CCM, retrieving a used radio's Safe code, etc. So I've been a happy VCDS user since buying my Golf in 2003 (it had 65000 miles on it so it conveniently needed an immediate timing belt replacement, hence needing VCDS - though it was named VAG-COM way back then).
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