3 hours ago, Liger1956 said:

You could look at using an Android phone and either the Carista or OBDeleven apps and a bluetooth OBDII dongle.

These, in my opinion, are not as good as VCDS but are cheaper and are able to interrogate all of the modules on my car.

Whilst I have a genuine VCDS cable I also use Carista just to check for fault codes as it saves getting the laptop out to the car.

 

1 hour ago, pikpilot said:

I use Carista (full version) on an iPad with a OBDII dongle with a built in WiFi. It shows all modules and history of problems which did not bring up a warning. Recent example is an intermittent door lock. 

Thanks for the Carista top tip!

If you search the forum for Carista you will be able to find out which cheap OBDII dongles work as some do not.