Audi Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

• ‒ Connect the vehicle diagnostic, testing and information system VAS 5051 to the vehicle's 16-pin diagnostic socket using the diagnostic cable VAS 5051/1, with ignition switched off and select the additional heater using "address word" 18.

Erasing fault memory

Preconditions:

• ● The fault memory has been interrogated => Page 01-24 and all faults displayed, if any, have been rectified.

→ Display on VAS 5051:

• ‒ Select function "05 - Erase fault memory".

→ Display on VAS 5051:

• ◆ There is no display in display zone -1-.
• ◆ A field with the information that on pressing the "OK" key data will be erased and the question as to whether the function should be executed appears in display zone -2- (the fault memory).

Notes:

• ◆ "Fault memory has not yet been interrogated" appears in display zone -1-.

• ‒ Interrogate fault memory.
• ‒ Rectify any faults.

• ◆ If e.g. the self-diagnosis is interrupted while interrogating the fault memory, the fault memory is not erased.

• ‒ In the display of VAS 5051, press the zone with "OK" in display zone -2-.

As soon as the fault memory has been erased "Fault memory erased" appears in display zone -1-.

• ‒ In the display of VAS 5051, press the zone with the ←key.

End of output

Preconditions:

• ● The fault memory has been interrogated and erased and the coding has been checked.

→ Display on VAS 5051:

• ‒ Select function "06 - End output".

• ‒ → Wait until this (the start menu) appears in the VAS 5051 display.
• ‒ Switch off ignition, as required, and Unplug diagnostic connector.