on the ross tech website, which one do I order? the one that costs $99? or am I confused? is this shareware? what laptop specifications do I need in order to run this? TIA!

 

If you buy the cable from Ross-Tech you don't need to buy a software license. There is a software key built into the cable that turns the shareware version into a full licensed version. If you buy an Ebay knock off cable you will need to pay the $100 for a licensed software copy. You buy and old Ross-Tech cable from Ebay, you will won't to make sure that the cable has the software key built in (it called a dongle); because the old cables didn't have them. I think Ross-Tech started putting the dongles in about 1.5 to 2 years ago.

Any old laptop will run the program. I use a laptop that is about 8 years old and it works fine.

 

thanks dafrazi. so I should buy the cable from ross tech. then is there a place where I get the shareware version for free? or does the cable come with that? a little confused so bear with me. but I want to have this vag. I have the obd II scanner but it only turns the CEL off etc.

is our coolant G12?

 

so is it worth the extra $100 for the Hex-COM+CAN($329) instead of buying the Key-Com interface($229)? If so why? Thank you

 

You can download the shareware version right off the Ross Tech site, that's what I did. The cable may come with a copy but I don't know for sure. I have cheap Ebay cable that I use for reading and clearing codes. I just borrow dan's Ross-Tech cable when I need to do logging and other stuff.

 

 

Yes it is.