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GOBbluth

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XGC75 said:
Yes it does say that. That was a direct copy.

Keep in mind, however, that the ecu doesn't actually report any text like that - it's added by Ross-Tech's software. At least, in my expertise with controls systems, it would be very costly to include all that data and try and pipe it through the CAN bus when your diagnostics tool sits on a PC with nearly limitless storage. Not to mention it's far easier to develop for. I can't envision how vw would want all that in their ecu.

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Wow did not know that. However, I'd find it odd that Ross tech wold add something's that's not up to them.
 
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chris101

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Interesting how our ECUs have become a black box of sorts saying exactly what happened to help prevent warranty fraud claims.
 
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GOBbluth said:
Wow did not know that. However, I'd find it odd that Ross tech wold add something's that's not up to them.
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Keep in mind that it's an assumption on my part. I don't work for bosch, vw or Ross-Tech, but if i built that control there's no way I'd try to manage all those strings on the ecu. That said, Ross-Tech would want to decode those so that we want to buy their product. No use seeing just a bunch of numbers.


ibid said:
Interesting how our ECUs have become a black box of sorts saying exactly what happened to help prevent warranty fraud claims.
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Makes good business sense.

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chris101

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well, I just went to run a code check on my car.. No codes found.. not even a low fuel code that was there when it was new (so obviously that clears out too after time) woot!
 
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