Showing my Tri-axle Trailer some TLC . . .

tphoyt

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I did the brakes on a friends BMW a few years ago I was doing it for free so I told him
I needed 24 bucks to download the software for his car on the scan tool and he didn’t want to pay it because he’s a cheap donky. So he sent me a YouTube link to get around it. It did work but the parking brake light wouldn’t go off after that. He was convinced I did something wrong so he took it to a mechanic and told them I screwed it up and wanted them to check my work. They said it all looks good they needed to reset the computer with a scan tool.
That set him back $150.
 

nola mike

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@tpenfield , this is the VW, not the Mini. However, get deepobd (android, probably iphone too). Unbelievably powerful, unbelievably complicated (and it helps if you speak German), and free. I can figure out a lot of the actuator functions and need to spend more time figuring out programming without bricking my car. Works well on BMW, supposed to work with VW as well. I will admit that had I had the newer fancy model it would have saved me the time of manually disconnecting the brakes and I could have changed the rotors without removing the carrier or manually retracting the pistons. Probably would have been a good deal quicker.
 
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