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Oct 27th, 2020, 19:53 | #11 |
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Thanks for the information, really useful to read about your experience with these. Given that I've already bought the thing I will persevere in getting it working but if I reach a dead-end (and I suspect I might!) I will be in touch for a VCX tool. I'll keep you posted.
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Oct 27th, 2020, 23:50 | #12 | |
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Thanks for your considered post; I'm sure others will take your comments into consideration when they come to making a decision as to where they will purchase theirs from. As for your series of questions, me thinks you knew their answer prior to asking them.
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Oct 28th, 2020, 00:28 | #13 | |
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It's not unreasonable to ask for further clarification as I genuinely don't know the answer. It's a bit like saying, "buy a car from this dealer but I wouldn't trust them for servicing." People will ask why?
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Oct 28th, 2020, 01:40 | #14 | |
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Matter of fact I have, and would again in future, recommend people buy a Volvo from the dealer I purchased my cars from but I certainly would not recommend taking any Volvo to them for service or repair.
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Oct 28th, 2020, 12:03 | #15 |
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Just to follow up on the VIDA installation; I managed to get the VIDA 2014D software from https://volvodiag.com up and running and it's work of sorts and appears to be a more up to date version of VIDA than shipped with my DICE unit. I still have the intermittent communications drop outs but this seems stable enough to use for now. I'm 90% sure this fault is linked to the DICE unit and probably not the software or laptop hardware. I stuck the charger on the battery with ignition in position II as per the VIDA instruction manual which stabilized things as I explored VIDA. Having the car sit in this mode without the engine spinning seems to be pretty sore on the battery.
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You'll flatten a battery pretty quickly so I always have the engine running unless the specific function requires it off.
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Oct 29th, 2020, 21:14 | #17 |
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I recently purchased a VCX NANO and I've been able to get it working with VIDA on an old Win 7 laptop but it appears that I will have to go online every 60 days to renew the VCX driver licence. Is this right? I was hoping that once I got the system up and running I could disable the WiFi to ensure it wasn't nobbled by a Windows update.
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There haven't been updates of any note that could scupper Vida and there won't be any in the future either as W7 support ended in January.
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Oct 30th, 2020, 22:57 | #19 |
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Thanks. I'm still a bit annoyed about having to periodically re-license the VX NANO as there was no mention of this when I purchased it. Is it the same with the DiCE clones, or do those just keep on working once they are set up?
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They really should be providing you with everything you need.
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