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Anthony121

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Scratch that. They out of stock and one of the customer service blokes said it can't do service stuff for VF yet, like oil service reset, abs bleed, epb calibration etc. So cancelled order. Hopefully stooges one works..

Damn I wanted to know how yours went so I could purchase one for my cars.
 

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GDS2 works on my Win10/64 laptop.
 

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Scratch that. They out of stock and one of the customer service blokes said it can't do service stuff for VF yet, like oil service reset, abs bleed, epb calibration etc. So cancelled order. Hopefully stooges one works..

Ive got one of those Vident i400au's,
If Imoegnr wants to be a guinea pig to see what comes up when plugged into a VF i'm happy to use it as a trial
 

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Ive got one of those Vident i400au's,
If Imoegnr wants to be a guinea pig to see what comes up when plugged into a VF i'm happy to use it as a trial

Thank you!
 

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it looks like the vxdiag is total sh!t, it will not communicate using gds2 with the vehicle on both a 2015(my16) colorado and a 2018 commodore.
i have tried both win7 and win10, the software runs but fails to pull any obd data so i would suggest avoiding the vxdiag tool.
 

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I just bough Bosch obd scanner from Supercheap. It was about $250 from memory. Does what it's supposed to...
 

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my last attempt is win7 32 bit.

the vxdiag was promising because it claimed it allowed total dealer level programming and tds subscription support but so far i have not been able to get a simple vin pull :(

if this dont work i will pull the fuxor apart and look for bad solder joints lol.

EDIT: 3 minutes later...

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EDIT:

after a considerable amount of forking around i managed to use a windows7 32 bit vm to get it to communicate with the vehicle and pull information, i will try tomorrow with a tds sub to see if it allows module programming.
 
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my last attempt is win7 32 bit.

the vxdiag was promising because it claimed it allowed total dealer level programming and tds subscription support but so far i have not been able to get a simple vin pull :(

if this dont work i will pull the fuxor apart and look for bad solder joints lol.

EDIT: 3 minutes later...

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20210127-202805.jpg

Did you find anything wrong?
Has it been knobbled in any way?
 

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Did you find anything wrong?
Has it been knobbled in any way?

I will have to play with it more but after using 32bit win 7 it seems to operate how they claim.
It pulled the info i was expecting from my zb which is info a cheap ebay reader wont pull.

It is basically just a mdi clone and they have some hacky stuff happening with the official gds2 software.
It supports holdens from 2014 upto 2020 in gds2 and holdens before that with the tech2 emulator.

As far as i can tell it does all the dealer level diagnostic functions.

I will get a tds subscription tomorrow for the zb and see if i can get it to work with that.
The tds is required to program modules and perform firmware updates.
 
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