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Old Apr 5, 2026 | 11:14 AM
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Besides reading Germain what was your learning curve with Piwi. 5 Pcars in its probably time for me to learn
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Old Apr 5, 2026 | 01:14 PM
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AI (ChatGPT) makes it much easier to use than a couple years ago. Not only does it read German (Obviously) it tells you what to do on a lot of the parameters to get the result you want.
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Watch some videos, follow the coding thread. Someone just posted a list of common mods. Start with some easy things… if you are computer savvy it will unlock pretty quickly.

Pro tip: use Google Translate to ‘live translate’ the screen in real time….
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Old Apr 5, 2026 | 03:25 PM
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You don't need German, that is only for programming mode and you better be damn sure you know what you're doing when clicking around in there.

General maintenance, clearing codes, re-learns etc are all done in english and are pretty straight forward.

If your cars are all stock, piwis might be overkill, unless you're doing your own maint, I would save your money and just have a normal code reader.
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