plugged in the C5 and it went nuts

[darbuck]

Hi Lads,

I plugged in the C5 I just bought, Just to see if there was anything wrong and it went bananas wouldn't run a diagnostic, running on diagbox 7.3. She started dinging and displaying braking and power steering fault. It just was not happy. Any ideas why it would have such an issue.

Dar

[wheeler]

If you mean during a diagnostic scan then this is completely normal.
Many of the systems will flag error messages as the tool tries to communicate with it.

[darbuck]

Oh alright Thanks Wheeler. I just didn't remember it doing that on my old MK 1 C5 but that was 5 or six years ago. I noticed it wouldn't auto detect either and didn't work on manual entry of VIN either , She is going into economy mode a lot too, so I think she needs a battery, Haven't had time to test it yet. The usb cable is damaged do you know what the name of the of the end that goes into the activa is.