My newly acquired 2014 Audi A5 Cabriolet MMI 3G Plus doesn’t have the windows option in the MMI 3G settings, therefore I can’t close the windows with the lock button or open the windows with the unlock button on my key fobs. I had to use the OBDEleven 2 or VCDS to enable the function. […]
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NextGen OBDEleven Pro Supports both Android and iOS
To scan and clear codes for our Audi and VW cars, there are many OBDII devices out there for us to choose from. The most popular one is VCDS and now we have alternative OBDEleven and Carista, OBDEleven just came out with the NextGen Pro version dongle that supports both Android and iOS. I like […]

How To Restore Sounds From MMI 2G Component Protection (CP)
When we replaced a new MMI 2G Head Unit (4E0035729-A) from a donor car, chances are we will have component protection (CP) which prevents us to play radio or CD changer, the sounds will be muted (disabled) and we would see the speaker icon with a slash on it. There is one way to restore […]

Things You Wish Your OBDII Scanner Can Do
If you own Audi cars, you want to get an OBDII scanner to access the data and do something with it, here are a few things you may want it to be able to do, if you buy a VCDS, then you can pretty much do anything with it, but with others, you may need […]

Carista OBD2 Bluetooth and Software
Today I’m going to try the new OBD2 Bluetooth Dongle from Carista. It’s quite simple and easy to pair, I use the free trial software which doesn’t have any long coding, although there are quite a few simple programs that’s good. The paying structure is subscription which is good for some and bad for other. […]