This is my first post hope its in the right place.
My A2 has lots of probs - abs light and beeps, strange whirring/blip from front passenger side (also sometime get yellow steering wheel) it eats tyres and coil springs and its got a bad water leak (the boot is very wet).
Then one day it refused to start, eventually found it to be the instrument cluster (clocks). Got a replacement cluster off ebay but now find it needs to be recoded. So I have been looking at cables on ebay for around £20 to £30 but with these I dont think I'll get the functions I need.
Would probably get the proper Ross-Tech VAG-COM but not sure if this will work for me because I don't have access to the 7-digit SKC (secret key code) found this on Ross-Tech http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/Immo2-cluster-swapping.html which pretty much explains what I am looking to achive. However I think I will come unstuck at step 12 - which means it's a dealer workshop job and will be expensive.
The second paragraph of the guide mentions a 4-digit SKC where would I find this - I have a feeling this is in the owners manual you get with the car, which I can't find (I used to have it) is there any info on the "plastic key" which would let me do the re-code?
Is there any way I can just disable the immobiliser?
Hope some one here can help me.
My A2 has lots of probs - abs light and beeps, strange whirring/blip from front passenger side (also sometime get yellow steering wheel) it eats tyres and coil springs and its got a bad water leak (the boot is very wet).
Then one day it refused to start, eventually found it to be the instrument cluster (clocks). Got a replacement cluster off ebay but now find it needs to be recoded. So I have been looking at cables on ebay for around £20 to £30 but with these I dont think I'll get the functions I need.
Would probably get the proper Ross-Tech VAG-COM but not sure if this will work for me because I don't have access to the 7-digit SKC (secret key code) found this on Ross-Tech http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/cars/Immo2-cluster-swapping.html which pretty much explains what I am looking to achive. However I think I will come unstuck at step 12 - which means it's a dealer workshop job and will be expensive.
The second paragraph of the guide mentions a 4-digit SKC where would I find this - I have a feeling this is in the owners manual you get with the car, which I can't find (I used to have it) is there any info on the "plastic key" which would let me do the re-code?
Is there any way I can just disable the immobiliser?
Hope some one here can help me.