Best place to buy vcds software? Is that all I need and a cable from laptop to car? Cheers for any help

Look at the Ross tech website, it has a list of UK distributors. Anything on eBay offering the full version very cheap is almost certainly fake. VCDS Lite won't work fully on your car, so you can't buy a cheap KKL cable.

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Gendan or Ilexia in the UK.

You'll rarely see a genuine used one for much less than a used one.

Thanks for the help, after buying through Ross tech or any other place on their website will I still need to buy any cables or will I get everything I need from rosstech?

You buy the cable and then download the software.

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So the price is just for a cable but it comes with downloadable software?

Yes, the cable is the important bit. You also get free software updates and support from Ross tech.

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You can download the software now if you want to and run it, but you won't get much out of it without the cable and a car.

So is it possible to download the software for free and buy a cable off eBay or am I just being stupid

You can use VCDS lite with an eBay cable but it won't do CAN so you can't access a lot of the controllers in the mkII Octavia.

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You could.

But I wouldn't.

Unless its a genuine Ross Tech cable. Guaranteed.