Hey, i was just thinking is it possible to unlock line assistant and road sign reading options using just a simple obd tool from amazon or any ordinary one?

Or is it just specialised ones can do it?

I know there is a service down in England ( only 1 I found so far) who does this sort of service.

And this leads to important question, if I could do it myself, what are the odds i could completely mess things up? Or it is very easy and trouble free.

Thanks

You need to have the correct hardware. If your car has the camera facing forward mounted by the rear view mirror then it’s possible.

I use the app CarScanner

https://www.carscanner.info

with this reader from Amazon.

https://amzn.eu/d/0bL4UUEM

£8 for pro version of app and £22 for OBD module. This can code a lot of functions. It also has a coding history feature where you can simply reverse the coding carried out if you encounter errors.

Having said that, if you aren’t absolutely sure what you are doing it’s best to pay someone to do the work as you are interacting with important safety features of the car.

2 hours ago, Binx1310 said:

You need to have the correct hardware. If your car has the camera facing forward mounted by the rear view mirror then it’s possible.

I use the app CarScanner

https://www.carscanner.info

with this reader from Amazon.

https://amzn.eu/d/0bL4UUEM

£8 for pro version of app and £22 for OBD module. This can code a lot of functions. It also has a coding history feature where you can simply reverse the coding carried out if you encounter errors.

Having said that, if you aren’t absolutely sure what you are doing it’s best to pay someone to do the work as you are interacting with important safety features of the car

2 hours ago, Binx1310 said:

You need to have the correct hardware. If your car has the camera facing forward mounted by the rear view mirror then it’s possible.

I use the app CarScanner

https://www.carscanner.info

with this reader from Amazon.

https://amzn.eu/d/0bL4UUEM

£8 for pro version of app and £22 for OBD module. This can code a lot of functions. It also has a coding history feature where you can simply reverse the coding carried out if you encounter errors.

Having said that, if you aren’t absolutely sure what you are doing it’s best to pay someone to do the work as you are interacting with important safety features of the car.

I think you are right, I can do it myself theoretically but dont want to mess things up.

I will travel to Poland in July, already spoke with guy who does stuff like this and he said it will cost me around £200 for it

That sounds pretty reasonable.

If you have the hardware it should be as simple as ticking a box in the options on carscanner so long as you know which version of the camera you have installed - carscanner can tell you this.

A basic OBD2 scanner that only read fault codes and diagnose won't do it, you need a premium OBD2 scanner which lets you code your car and other modules of it. I use CarScanner ELM app paired with VGate iCar Pro BLE 4.0 scanner on my Skoda Rapid 1.0 TSI to just measure the boost pressure, coolant temp, stft, o2 sensor readings and fault codes.