rreegg
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Getting ready for a timing belt and water pump replacement on an '02 ALH. It's not necessary to check timing during a belt change but wanted to regardless. Finally got all the ducks in a row (belt kit etc) and the last piece was receiving the Hex-v2 obd2 adapter and getting the VCDS software running.
Hex-v2 arrived yesterday and spent most of the day trying to get my 2015 macbook running windows in a virtual env (vcds is windows only).
Blah blah computer chit but was able to find a windows 7 iso on internet archive and used it with virtual box v6 (had to downgrade from v7 which wasn't allowing windows to boot).
The windows 7 version works fine, haven't figured out how to use internet on there yet. Stored the VCDS .exe file in a Shared folder on the host computer and was able to import and run it in windows from there. Works well and everything ended up functioning as expected.
Timing seems to be in spec but slightly on the retarded side. Think i'll just keep timing as-is and adjust after the new belt is on.
Hex-v2 arrived yesterday and spent most of the day trying to get my 2015 macbook running windows in a virtual env (vcds is windows only).
Blah blah computer chit but was able to find a windows 7 iso on internet archive and used it with virtual box v6 (had to downgrade from v7 which wasn't allowing windows to boot).
The windows 7 version works fine, haven't figured out how to use internet on there yet. Stored the VCDS .exe file in a Shared folder on the host computer and was able to import and run it in windows from there. Works well and everything ended up functioning as expected.
Timing seems to be in spec but slightly on the retarded side. Think i'll just keep timing as-is and adjust after the new belt is on.