Practical guides on reading, recovering, cloning and modifying engine, gearbox and body control units: which file to use, how to read the label, how to write safely.
A 2006 Caddy 1.9 TDI BLS starts first turn in the morning, drives to the supermarket, sits for twenty minutes, and then cranks for ten seconds…
A Golf VI GTI on MED17.5.5 comes in with a 200-cell sports downpipe fitted by the previous owner, P0420 stored, and the lamp lit. The owner…
Hyundai and Kia are the brands with the most immo off requests in our shop, and for a good reason: the SMARTRA immobilizer unit fails often,…
A courier company hands you the keys to three Sprinter 316 CDI vans, all limited to 90 km/h from the factory, and asks for 130 so…
A Passat B8 2.0 TDI arrives with a new battery, the second in three years. The owner drives in city traffic and the engine restarts forty…
An E60 530d with the M57 comes in on a recovery truck: sudden loss of power, rattling, and when you pull the intake manifold you find…
The cluster on a 2016 Passat B8 2.0 TDI reads 'AdBlue: no engine start possible in 950 km'. The tank is full. The tester shows P20EE…
A customer's Vectra C comes in with the EGR blanked by the previous owner, a P0401 on the tester and a lamp that comes back every…
Kuga Mk2 1.5 EcoBlue, 2019. A software update through FDRS stalled at 60 percent, the laptop battery gave out, and now the car doesn't crank and…
The instrument cluster is a small computer: it stores mileage, service data, vehicle configuration and, on many cars, part of the immobilizer. When it fails, shows…
