1. INTRODUCTION 

“Abrites VAG Commander”is a Windows PC based diagnostic software for the vehicles from VAG. With the help of this tool you can perform operations with vehicles from the VAG group, which are in most cases unsupported from the producer diagnostic testers. The “Abrites VAG Commander”provides you also a full diagnostic capabilities for VAG-vehicles. 

2. INSTALLATION 

Your set consists of one interface (USB to OBDII). Optionally you might have a programmer which is connected either to the USB port of the PC, or to the interface (USB to OBDII). 

2.1 Installing USB Interface drivers 

The drivers are installed automatically when installing the software. 

2.2 Uninstalling USB Interface drivers 

In case the installed USB drivers are corrupted and/or stop work properly (your USB Interface is not recognized by the PC) you can try to fix the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling them, for to start over with a clean slate. 

Uninstalling USB interface drivers can be done by running the FTClean program. 

You can find it in the “USB Interface Drivers”sub-folder of your ABRITES Commander

The following is a step by step for using FTClean to remove drivers: 

Unpack and run

Uninstallation has finished. 

Important! Do not forget to reinstall the drivers following the instructions from point 2.2 “Installing 

USB Interface drivers"

2.3 Installing “ABRITES Commander for VAG"

The “ABRITES Commander for VAG”is contained into the installation package, so please run the 

setup program. 

Now you are ready to start the "ABRITES Commander for VAG" 

When starting the software, there is a splash screen appeared, where the connection with the hardware is examined. If no problem appear, then a message “Connection OK”should appear! 

The main screen looks like this:

ATTENTION: 

Make sure you are running the “ABRITES Commander for VAG”from its folder. If you are using a shortcut to the “ABRITES Commander for VAG" please be sure that the “working folder”parameter is set to the folder where the executable is placed! If the “working folder”of the shortcut is not set the K-Line may function incorrectly.

3 DIAGNOSTIC WITH “ABRITES VAG COMMANDER"

The “ABRITES VAG Commander”consists basically of two parts: 

 a. Standard diagnostic functions like reading/clearing trouble codes, device identification, adaptation, measured values, etc. 

 b. Special functions like odometer correction, reading login (PIN), reading EEPROM, etc. 

All devices, which can be installed into the car are listed in the main screen of the “ABRITES VAG Commander”with their VAS-Number. If you want to connect to some device please double click on it. The “ABRITES VAG Commander”will try to connect to the device using consecutively the 

following protocols: 

    a. KWP2000 over TP2.0 with baud 5000KB/s (CAN) 

    b. KWP2000 over TP1.6 with baud 5000KB/s (CAN) 

    c. UDS over ISO transport protocol (CAN) 

    d. KWP1281 or KWP2000 over K-Line (the protocol is recognized automatically from the wake-up pattern). 

You can choose which of these protocols to try when attempting to connect as described in the “Configuration”section.