hi im connecting a service history program to my car from dos it uses the tachobox interface and it says "unable to establish connection" the reason we're doing this is my mate bought an a4 96 which by looking at it i know the odo has been tampered with ( i can be wrong), so im using this program and interface we bought hopefully to bust the guy who sold this car to us...

anyway why is it when its trying to connect it times out saying unable to connect???

ive tried removing the "instrument cluster" fuse....

didnt help , ne other suggestions?

 

What interface are you connecting with? A authentic Ross-tech tool? Other generic ones often times have trouble connecting to special modules like the instrument cluster. You can't reduce the number of miles of the instrument cluster electronically, you can only increase them.

 

i hope ur right , however we spoke to the guy we bought the item off, he said most of his audi customers reduce the mileage ... i just wanna see the service history using the aftermarket tool

 

Service history? Since when does the car store a log of history? This would be news to me. The guy is feeding you some BS.

 

http://ucables.com/ref/TACHO-PRO/

this program shouldnt exist to be honest with you!!!! it really sh*ts me!!!!

 

not service history, as in service intervals

 

Hmmm...I've never seen that before. I hope your car hasn't been tampered with. Are you in the UK? Do you have anything like carfax.com?

 

nah i wish i was in the UK, hot chix there aparrantly, im in the AUSTRALIA MATE

i dont know what carfax is but noone keeps logs of mileage down here

the only way to bust it is to check service intervals....

 

Ahh I figured you were from one of the two places.

Here in the US everytime a car is in an accident or the title is transfered the mileage is logged in public record.