On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:02:24 -0400, "Pete" > wrote:

>
> "Lez Pawl" wrote
>> it can only be turned off with the VAG tooling if accompanied by the
>> registered VAG-COM Ross Tech software..........not the free download.
>
>Not sure I understood... it requires both a VAG Tool and a VAG-COM? This
>doesn't make sense. Usually one or the other is suffcient, either the VAG
>Tool that is the OEM solution, or VAG-COM, which is a 3rd party solution by
>Ross-Tech. The latter is available to anyone. The former - not sure, but
>it may be limited to business affiliated with VAG only.
>
>Pete

Simply: you can turn off the indicator with *either* a real VAG Tool, or with
a registered version of the VAG-COM software and a supported dongle.

I don't know if the former can be bought by the man-on-the-street, but in any
case it's likely to cost ten times what the VAG-COM package costs...

/daytripper
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