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Elm Cable

jwc28
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Hello. OK I don't know if I'm in the right bit but I wanted to have a mess about with my mk 2.5 focus so I bought a modified elm 327 cable and cd disc.....and I was wondering if someone could tell me in simple terms what I need to do to get it up and running. Please? I have a laptop windows 7 if that helps

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    thanks dezwez.

    I got it just to see some cool things, cars are like a hobby of mine. I notice you have frost chimes off and I wanted to switch mine on and also key in ignition chime doesn't work. do u think there is a high chance they have been switched off at the dealers before I got the car? also will this cable work to switch the chimes on? p.s do I really need this software as I got a compact disc with the cable and it says I can use forSCAN. cheers

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    you can use both you should be able to switch on and of chimes forscan or elmconfig

    make sure you back up first to a file on your laptop before you change anything

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    Hmmm i take it your saying that as u can go really wrong with this cable. I wasn't wanting to change much just minor things. I probably wouldn't know how to back up my current settings. Maybe its too risky for me to use it?

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