Talk:VAG-COM
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Hi,
I'm the original author of the VAG-COM software and the owner of the company that publishes it. I don't know who created this article. As I do not wish to be perceived as using Wikipedia as an advertising medium, I will not enhance the article, but will edit if there are factual errors -- as there were in the paragraph regarding VAG-COM's support for generic OBD-II.
Specifically I changed "any" to "many", since VAG-COM does not work with cars and trucks using the SAE J1850 physical layer for OBD-II. It only works with cars that use ISO9141, ISO14230, and ISO15765.
I also changed "built and sold in the United States" to "sold in the United States" because where a vehicle is built is irrelevant to the matter and original semantics imply that it won't work with any cars built outside the USA.
As far as notability:
- VAG-COM was written up in PC Magazine in in June of 2002. A reprint of the article is available here: http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/images/Hack-Your-Car.pdf
- VAG-COM was also written about in European Car Magazine in November of 2001. Reprint here: http://www.ross-tech.com/vag-com/images/Tool-of-Month.pdf
If the editors decide that does not meet the guidelines for Notability (software) and decide to delete the article, I fully understand.
Uwe Ross
Ross-Tech, LLC
[edit] Took out notability
Although VAG-COM isn't well known, I'm doing basic research on OBDII for a technical writing class and from what I've read so far it's one of the ways to translate raw OBDII electrical signals into something a computer can read from a serial port. It's obscure, but in the world of OBD, VAG-COM seems to be important. see http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/ or look on eBay for obdii to serial connectors and you'll find VAG-COM mentioned as one of the interface layers between the OBDII Connector and your computer. Krymson 17:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
