Issues after using Carista Bluetooth Dongle

[RUM4MO]

Has anyone else found that there has been some settings issues after scanning the car with a genuine Carista dongle?

I checked my daughter's August 2019 SEAT Leon Cupra for logged faults, found 7 controller with legacy stored faults, but have not cleared them yet, but she discovered that when next in her car, her iPhone had stopped being paired to the car, so she had to clear it and re-pair it, that was a bit annoying for her, as is the fault trails left and not cleared at PDI time! The obvious thing is for her to confirm that this is the case to stop her sales person pestering her to make sure that she was 100% satisfied with the car as received about 14 days ago, it makes no sense for her, at this time to book the car in for these faults to be cleared when I can do that as she has other things like work and play to occupy her life, I've never ever had a car handed over with stored faults before, sloppy Arnold Clark SEAT Seafield Edinburgh!

 

[bgb]

What are the faults? Having the car off and certain things on/door open can throw a ‘fault’. Carista doesn’t differentiate between faults and general trigger points such as an error about transmission being out of sync, if I remember correctly.

 

[RUM4MO]

No they are all genuine logged faults, confirmed using VCDS but as it is an older VCDS HEX+USB+CAN it can not handle some of these later controllers, but it did show logged faults in all the same controllers that Carista did, though of course Carista is always a bit behind the times with applying sensible and accurate description labels to newer fault codes.

Logged faults are:-- CAN gateway 8531970 Central elects 197904 Airbags 1051909 Instruments 10485841 HVAC 1048838 Driver's door 196724 Adaptive CC 00110

 

[bgb]

No idea, googling your read outs doesn’t help either, much like most the fault codes Carista tells you!

Maybe unplug, cycle the ignition and then go for a 5/10 min drive, try again?

 

[LR231998]

Carista is useless with fault codes

 

[RUM4MO]

No idea, googling your read outs doesn’t help either, much like most the fault codes Carista tells you!

Maybe unplug, cycle the ignition and then go for a 5/10 min drive, try again?

That is not the way that most people do this, you log the info, clear the stored codes and take it from there, too many "I had lots of fault codes stored - cleared them and none returned immediately" - then you ask the question "what fault codes were logged?" and the answer tends to be "lots" and maybe even "no idea, just fault codes" - not clever stuff, I've been reading VW Group cars fault codes for since 2001 and take any logged fault code seriously.

Carista does decode all fault codes, just that it takes them a very long time to get them right, I've had a "faulty EGR valve on my AC compressor once" I emailed them about that and what the correct fault description for that code should be.

 

[RUM4MO]

Carista is useless with fault codes

They just need maybe a couple of years or more after a new model launch to get them all right.- I thought this still current version of 2019 Leon had been on the go long enough to get these things right, same for equivalent Golf etc.

 

[Deleted member 103408]

Not directly related but fyi in OBD11 When you run a scan all the errors are saved and if you delete them that action is also saved so that you can always refer back to see what was showing and if you cleared or resolved the issue.

 

[RUM4MO]

That is a handy function, VCDS lets you save things as well, but not be default.

 

[cupra14]

Fault code numbers but no useful explanations - why??? Could mean anything!!

Doesn't inspire confidence in the tool(s)...

Is there a look-up table of the codes somewhere?

 

[RUM4MO]

I only really bought Carista as an "on the road" scan tool in case things happened while out and about, I use it mainly with a 2011 Audi S4 and a 2015 VW Polo, so most of the basic powertrain codes are established within Carista. The odd silly ones included the infotainment On/Off switch fault code and an HVAC one, that one was laughable and not a show stopper, so I resolved these 2 by using VCDS, but yes, a bit annoying if you relied on scan tools like Carista for all diagnostic work on newer cars, they will get there - eventually!

On line tables of codes, if coming from a low level performing source will also take a bit of time to get updated unfortunately.