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Post by lostpapa on Jun 14, 2024 19:18:59 GMT
Need help please!
Replaced clock spring in daughter’s 2015 sportwagen. Cruise control doesn’t work and keeps getting EPC light. I’ve tried long coding with the OBDeleven and it’s not doing anything. I can get the cruise on/off button to work for a couple seconds and then nothing again. Just blew $90 for the OBDeleven thing and another $70 for the programming, not happy. No clue how to do any of this.
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Post by dv52 (Australia) on Jun 14, 2024 23:22:29 GMT
It ain't good that you are "not happy" and that you believe that the money that you threw at the OBD11 purchase was not worth-while!
With absolutely no offense intended and with an acknowledgement that OBD11 is far from perfect - my hunch is that your view about OBD11 is misplaced!
Rather than this being a case of a wasted purchase - I suspect that your view about OBD11 is a matter of unfulfilled expectations (again, no offense intended)
To explain, lets start with a clarification - what exactly do you mean by "Replaced [the] clock spring"? Do you mean that you replaced the hairspring unii ONLY on the steering wheel - or did you replace the larger, cylindrical black-box in which the hairspring unit is mounted - see picture below?
If your answer is the latter option (as I expect) - then what you actually did was to retrofit both a new steering-wheel (SW) module AND the clock-spring (possibly a version of OEM part-number 5Q0-953-569)!!
As I hope that you will agree - replacing an active CAN module (like the SW module) ain't as easy as replacing just the hairspring unit because the new SW module needs to be programmed to the conditions in the recipient car.
This is what I mean by - "I suspect that your view about OBD11 is a matter of unfulfilled expectations (again, no offense intended)"!
OK- how to move forward with this car?
There ain't much specific information about this car in your post, so my understanding of the details of the changed equipment is virtually non-existent! With this caveat, and assuming that the retrofitted SW module was new (i.e. not 2nd-hand) - I'm guessing that you might need to re-align the long-code string on the new module to the value that was on the old SW module. Again for emphasis, this is a guess!!
The normal process when changing an active CAN module in a Golf mk7 is to first read the coding values in the old module so that they can be replicated in the new module. Did you do this with your new OBD11 purchase before retrofitting the new SW module?. If not, do you have an old SCAN report for this car that might show the factory value of the long-code on the SW module?
Also, please provide details of what coding changes were made with OBD11 - look at History in the OBD11 software App.
And finally given your status as a new-bee user of OBD11, I guess the remaining unanswered question is - are you comfortable making coding changes like those discussed above?
Don
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