VVDI or CGDI for Mercedes Benz

[vrsc]

Hello, which Tool do you prefer for Mercedes-Benz ? VVDI MB BGA or CGDI MB FIT ? Which Tool is easy to work ? New update, support and more cars?

Thank you for your answers.

Regards

vrsc

[lion0304]

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[Spiritech]

Much the same coverage, VVDIMB expects you to have a VVDI prog or use their accessory cables(or make your own) to get the data by IR. CGDI comes with a little bunch of wires that you connect according to the provided schematics for password extraction, can work from programmer dumps as well.

VVDI uses a token system or a yearly sub for password extraction, but you get free tokens if you use their keys. CGDI membership comes with 1 free password per day for the lifetime of the unit, they sell tokens as well but are very cheap.

VVDI writes keys fine, CGDI I find writes keys poorly at times, especially on 202/208/210 vehicles.

Neither one offers Gateway emulation for 209/211/169/245 vehicles, Poldiag and Autel offer that function which means you don't need to wire up a gateway with the EZS on the bench. Neither VVDI nor CGDI are really designed to work in the car for AKL(though they can but not well), that's a AVDI/Autel function.

I generally use my CGDI for getting the password, then read the car with my VVDI, input the read password and write keys with VVDI. When writing replacement ESLs or EZSes I will usually do that on the bench with CGDI, the octopus of wires is far easier to do than finding the right adapter for what you're working on.

That said I carry pretty much all of the above, some solutions are more streamlined for certain cars than others, some are quicker than others at certain cars. And you'll need to get an appropriate programmer such as smok/vvdiprog etc if you want to be playing in this space anyway because occasionally it's 100% necessary to go back to the old way and get a dump out of a EZS.

[Spiritech]

Some searching turned my last post on this very subject:

https://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/showthread.php/1029923-Mercedes-Benz-Key-Programmer?highlight=CGDI

Couple extra things in the post I made today but the general sentiment is the same.