So my throttle body seems to have gotten screwed up. I guess it happened when my battery disconected, then i turned it back on and drove right away without letting it do the auto TBA. I ordered a new TB from throughbred auto parts - big mistake: they are horrible and am still waiting on it 2 weeks later.
I tried doing a manual TBA with the 20$ VAG-COM cable and 409 software but it wouldn't let me do it. I went into "engine", then "measuring blocks", selected group 1 and saw that the throttle position indication was off. However when i tried to do the "switch back to basic settings" it wouldnt let me do it. Is it only because im using the free software? Can anyone please see you would be able to select "switch back to basic settings" with the free software?

the ross tech website says group 98 but when i tried looking at group 98 it gave out no readings or returned an error (forget exactly what it was) and didn't give me the option to "switch back to basic settings"...

TIA

 

Did you try group 60?

I had a TB fault after my battery ran dead once that didn't go away after some time. Eventually after several fault clearing/TBA attempts it finally did it. Do you have a fault code?

 

yea group 98 is for 96-99 group 60 is for the non cable throttle bodies

 

According to ross-tech's web site, that is not for sure as they state "it may be group 98" for DBC. It's worth a shot, but you're probably right. I still havent done a TBA on my 97 so I'm not for sure.

 

im 95% sure you cant do a TBA with the trial version of the software. a month or so ago i managed to hijack a friends laptop for a few days and i remember i couldnt do a TBA with it.

you also only have access to read blocks 001-025 in trial mode. which is why you couldnt read block 98

 

yea, you cant go past 25 in the free edition