Re: Brake pad contact
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2023 9:52 am
Yes the battery coding is carried out in the CAN-Gateway controller for this model of Polo.
What you need to consider is, in the general workshop environment, a lot of these actions have been dumbed down, so "anyone" can carry it out, and as such, your workshop might just have a specific "tool" for coding batteries on many marques of cars - so the operator might never know that he/she is addressing the CAN-Gateway when they are carrying out this task.
VCDS is designed to be used by someone that is willing to and can dig deep down and find where to change things and so is very flexible, Carista for instance just has a series of "one click options" - ie it has been dumbed down for maybe dummies to use. So in Carista, you just connect to the car, and go into, if I remember correctly "advanced servicing" and from there select "battery coding" and that presents you with a few options, like "technology", "capacity" and "serial number" - so hopefully as you can see, the operator does not know or need to know where to look for it, the Carista app does all that in the background - but the end result is the same, ie "job done".
Edit:- that wiki link to Rosstech covers a few "types" of versions of where the battery coding exists and how it is presented to the operator, your Polo is the more simplified newer and less restrictive version of this.
Another Edit:- I always think that if you as a "non car" person, take your car into a workshop where there are many trained people, and try regurgitating something that you have read online - then you are just fooling yourself and maybe even annoying, amusing or alienating yourself to that workshop staff - and you will probably pay for doing that.
What you need to consider is, in the general workshop environment, a lot of these actions have been dumbed down, so "anyone" can carry it out, and as such, your workshop might just have a specific "tool" for coding batteries on many marques of cars - so the operator might never know that he/she is addressing the CAN-Gateway when they are carrying out this task.
VCDS is designed to be used by someone that is willing to and can dig deep down and find where to change things and so is very flexible, Carista for instance just has a series of "one click options" - ie it has been dumbed down for maybe dummies to use. So in Carista, you just connect to the car, and go into, if I remember correctly "advanced servicing" and from there select "battery coding" and that presents you with a few options, like "technology", "capacity" and "serial number" - so hopefully as you can see, the operator does not know or need to know where to look for it, the Carista app does all that in the background - but the end result is the same, ie "job done".
Edit:- that wiki link to Rosstech covers a few "types" of versions of where the battery coding exists and how it is presented to the operator, your Polo is the more simplified newer and less restrictive version of this.
Another Edit:- I always think that if you as a "non car" person, take your car into a workshop where there are many trained people, and try regurgitating something that you have read online - then you are just fooling yourself and maybe even annoying, amusing or alienating yourself to that workshop staff - and you will probably pay for doing that.
