The Official Line On Cheap VCDS Cables

To quote Theresias from a previous topic:

"VAG Diagnostics Ltd" is NOT an official reseller of ours. In fact they are selling pirated copies and we are currently persuing legal actions against them. Even though these actions are targeted against the seller, it is possible that the legal system will also take actions against those knowingly buying falsified products.

A list of our official UK distributors can be found on our website.

http://www.ross-tech...ibutors.html#uk

For the record, no VCDS system ever sold was or is tight to a specific version number. If you see an offer like that, especially those advertising old versions you can be fairly certain that it is not a genuine product. Also Ross-Tech does not do discounts, we do believe our product is worth every penny and considering that you will essentially get free lifetime updates we think it's a pretty good deal.

BTW: Each of our genuine interfaces contains a proprietary firmware and serial number/activation, VCDS will not work with 3rd party hardware. So if somebody offers a product which they claim is "similar", they would need to illegally copy/clone our firmware and serial number/activation.

Would you be happy to expose your cars systems to tampered with software?