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Old 05-03-2018, 05:15 PM   #65
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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0 View Post
So the only person who would buy a cable without a dongle on the used market is someone who may have done a flash then sold their cable but kept their dongle and now wants to retune the ECU.

What about the license? How would anyone know before purchase that a license hadn’t been used?

not rearly


without a "dongle" you cannot run ecutek software
without ecutek cable you cannot flash , you cannot use say a tactrix cable instead, must be ecutek.


A lot of people think the ECU licience or tune is in the dongle , its not.


The dongle is just a "licience key " for the ecutek software.


The ECU licience is completely separate, you need to buy or have a new ECU licience for every ecu you want to flash.


The dongle key only allows ecutek software to run.


don't buy a ecutek cable without a dongle key, its useless. you would nedd to buy a new dongle key to get software to work, then you also need an ECU licience, and a tune to actually flash a car.
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