Dice and Vida 2014d For Sale

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Originally Posted by Jprice2708

It appears cheshired5 has been offline for a year now. What are the options for people needing a unit and software?

I am considering helping people out with this need in a more hands-on way, but failing that I would recommend the following site for general info and possibly the option to download a VMWARE with DICE pre-installed (have not tried to do so myself, but this is the easiest way to get up and running).

https://volvodiag.com


The following threads are also extremely useful if you want to set up on a Windows 10 laptop from scratch. I successfully managed to clean a laptop with a failed VIDA install and re-installed to get it working.

As the poster says, the clean-up steps are VERY important, however they also throw in the instruction to install something called "CCleaner". This is just a random PC scanning tool (and not a well known one at that) and I suspect the OP is affiliated with it in some way. I strongly suggest avoiding it.

*Clean-up steps - confirmed as effective:

https://www.swedespeed.com/threads/v...7#post-4173865

*'Pro' install steps - confirmed as effective:

https://www.swedespeed.com/threads/v...7#post-4148666

*'Non-pro' install steps - not tested but understood to be more verbose version of the 'pro' steps:

https://www.swedespeed.com/threads/v.../#post-2649849


Lastly of course you need the hardware - a DICE unit or equivalent and I don't know a huge amount about the options. I have one of the so-called 'A++ clone' units, which looks exactly like the official DICE and even has the exact same chipset inside.

The problem I've experienced with it in recent times is that most of the car modules show up RED in instead of GREEN in the network tab of VIDA, which means they are not communicating. At first I thought it was the car, but exactly the same occurred in a second car. From the look of it, I think the low speed CAN bus is not connecting, whereas the high speed one is (ECM, TCM etc) - perhaps this is caused by just one pin not connecting or similar?

I also tried re-installing VIDA a few times and flashing the firmware on the DICE unit, all to no avail (but this is how I've picked up experience getting it installed correctly).

Having likely ruled out the car and the software, my next avenue of investigation is going to be different 'Chinese' ODB2 readers to see if they show all the modules. If anyone knows a specific type that works, please let me know!