Can you recode modules with VCDS lite - permanently disable ESP on V6?

No luck with this at all - I want the ESP gone!!! lol

Why do I have to have a module that almost no-one else seems to have.. had to be my car didn't it!

Anybody else have any good ideas or can put me onto the trail of someone who might know about this?

Do you reckon if I just ring up Audi and ask for the codes they will give them to me?!

 

Ring Ring
Audi: Hello
Dennis: Hi, can I have the ECU codes to turn of my ESP?
Audi: What?
Dennis: Can I have the ECU codes to turn of my ESP?
Audi: Let me pass you to our technical department.
Dennis: OK
Audi Tech: Hello
Dennis: Hi, can I have the ECU codes to turn of my ESP?
Audi Tech: What?
Dennis: Can I have the ECU codes to turn of my ESP via the diagnostics?
Audi Tech: If you bring the car in we can look at it for you. Cost is 6squillion/hour, plus parts.*
Dennis: I don't need you to do it, I just need the codes.
Audi Tech: I'm sorry, I can't give those to you, as they're the property of Audi. If you bring the car in we can look at it for you. Cost is 6squillion/hour, plus parts.*
Dennis: No they're not, they're all over the internet. I just need the correct ones for my car.
Audi Tech: I'm sorry, but that's not possible. If you bring the car in we can look at it for you. Cost is 6squillion/hour, plus parts.*
Dennis: Hangs up.

* Translation: I haven't a clue what he wants, but I know I can charge 6squillion/hour, plus parts if we plug that cable in to his car.

 

Can guarantee if you were to phone audi they won't know the code and won't know how to find it, they also won't turn it off for you even if by some remote chance they do know the code to turn it off, if they turn it off and then you go down the road and wipe out the first bus stop full of pensioners that you find they will be in a very difficult position!

 

lol

That is pretty much every conversation ever with any VAG staff! Brilliant!


Cheers Mushy, if your mate has a 3.2 it's worth a shot!

I can understand how Audi would need to cover themselves, it's just annoying because it was an optional recall on early models IIRC, and then introduced in all it's glory (lol) in later models. It is insufferably sh*te though. The point of a performance car where most of the performance is killed when you drive it in an enthusiastic way is.... Answers on a postcard!

Wheel hop!! ARGHGH

 

Found this interesting post on a TDI forum regarding the MK60 ABS module that someone is also having difficulty finding correct codes to disable it (not the same as mine either)

I did figure out that if you unplug a "yaw" sensor it disables the real ESP and the ASR (traction control part of it). Cool thing is that as when you plug it back in the light goes right off. It doesn't store a code or anything. That and when you unplug the ESP switch it doesn't mess anything up. MEANING I'm off to unplug my ESP (leaving it's plug hang) and splice the esp switch into the yaw sensor wiring so when I hit the switch it truly disables everything and not traction control only. The only hiccup I've found is it that the ESP switch is a momentary switch so you have to get another switch that isn't (Like the defrost or I found a foglight switch from an Audi on ebay that fits the same slot). You have to switch faces of the switch and do some minor mod to the tabs. I haven't done it yet but this is what I've figured out and plan and do. Wish me luck

This might be a viable option - disable a YAW sensor and/or wire in a simple switch on it so it is possible to really disable the ESP via a switch. Hoping that won't affect the ABS though, would like to keep that, but turn everything else off.

 

Have you looked into disabling the steering angle sensor with software coding?

I have read elsewhere that its possible to do so on mk4 Golf platform.

Just trying to find where I saw it..

 

Found post on another forum, PM'd poster..no response as yet..

 

Cheers for all the responses guys!

Mushy - mine is a DSG model, yes

Gary, I have heard about the steering angle sensor, as far as I could make out after wading through lots of forum content, it works in the same way as the above quote I posted regarding the YAW sensor, which you can just unplug. The thing is I don't really like the idea of having to fiddle about with sensors themselves in order to 'fool' the ECU into doing something, I'd much rather turn it off in VCDS as there is definitely an option in there to do this, it's just finding the correct code. I also am not confident that this option doesn't also disable the ABS, which I would probably prefer to keep. Although I have heard that disabling the ABS on these doesn't disable the brake biasing, so it is safer than what I had going on with my mk3 16v GTI, when the ABS module wasn't working.

Still, needs must! lol I might end up doing it this way...!

**EDIT**

I think I've found the thread where that above quote was from;

disable YAW - disable ESP