1 Will VAG-COM work with my car?
VAG-COM will work with most Volkswagen and Audi models sold World-Wide 1994 through 2006. It will work with some cars all the way back to model year 1990. It will also work with most late-model SEAT, and Skoda models sold in markets other than North America. If your VW or Audi has a 16-pin “OBD-II style” Data Link Connector, VAG-COM will definitely work. If your car has the old “2×2” Data Link Connection, check if there is a wire going to each pin, as shown in the picture. If there are four wires, VAG-COM should work. If there are only three, it won’t. Please see these Application Charts where you can select your model and see which modules can communicate with VAG-COM. Also see the Issues page for a few things that may not work as expected. If in doubt, e-mail us.
2 Will VAG-COM work even if my car is “chipped”?
Yes. If it doesn’t work in a “chipped” car, the chip-vendor did something seriously wrong! Chips from reputable vendors are fully VAG-1551 (and VAG-COM) compliant.
3 What functions are included in the current release?
VAG-COM is a software program that turns your PC into sophisticated VW/Audi diagnostic tool, which performs the functions of a factory VAG-1551 or VAG-1552 scan tool and more. Please see the Function Chart for the current feature set.
4 What are the computer requirements?
A PC running Windows: We recommend at least a Pentium-100 (or AMD equivalent) with 16MB of RAM and Windows 95 or newer. VAGCOM 18.2 may work on some lesser PC’s, but anything less than the above recommendation is unsupported. Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, and XP are all fine. Available disk-space should be a non-issue; VAG-COM requires less than 10 MB. If you are using a power supply for a laptop, it should be one specifically designed for that purpose, NOT a “universal” adapter.
To use one of our Serial Interfaces, the PC must have an available RS-232 Serial port! Otherwise, you’ll need to choose one of our USB Interfaces. A RS-232 Serial Port looks like this:
Observe the port we surrounded with the GREEN oval. Notice the 9 MALE pins? That is a SERIAL port and WILL work! Observe the port circled and crossed in RED:
