I took delivery of my new Octavia vRS III today, I'd bought VCDS in advance so when I got the car home I had a play. I installed VCDS in a VirtualBox Windows 7 VM, running on top of Linux Mint Debian Edition. Both VCDS 12.12 and Beta 14.7 work fine and I've used VCDS to disable the god-awful sound generator and set up cornering fogs.

 

If you want to do the same, Install the VCDS software as normal in the Windows VM, without the cable connected. Then, when you have to plug the cable in, plug it in and then use the VirtualBox Devices -> USB Devices menu to grant the Windows VM access to the VCDS cable and everything should just work. If you want the VCDS assignment to the Windows VM to 'stick', shut down the VM after install and use the VirtualBox config GUI to add a permanent assignment for VCDS to the VM.

 

I'll be working my way through the other adaptations tomorrow, reversing mirror dip and high bean assist look like must-haves and by the time I've done those the VCDS cable will have paid for itself :-)

 

Thanks to the Briskoda community for an invaluable resource! :clap:

Nice work and platform selection

I use Virtualbox on OSX with my Macbook Pro and it works great

What is this VCDS you guys are talking about ,I'm wondering can it do anything for me as I have just took delivery of my new octavia Elegance 2.0L 150 DSG .Which ive noticed only has one rear fog lamp,two would look better.

What is this VCDS you guys are talking about ,I'm wondering can it do anything for me as I have just took delivery of my new octavia Elegance 2.0L 150 DSG .Which ive noticed only has one rear fog lamp,two would look better.

VCDS is a diagnostic piece of software and a hardware dongle that plugs into the cars ODB port.

With it I successfully enabled both rear fogs because as you said, it looks nicer. Have a look at the vcds owners map in this forum to see if any are near you then have a wee chat with them. The users on this forum are very helpful.

John.

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Which cable did you go for?

Which cable did you go for?

Hex-USB+CAN