KESS v2 or KTAG

by **federikg** » Thu Apr 10, 2014 12:19 am

Hi, I´m looking for to buy a new interface, and I was seeing that in Argentina, a lot of tuners uses Alientech Interfaces.

I was investigating and I undestood that Kess is only for OBD2 connections and unable to work over the main board directly in the flash memory, is it true ?

by **mmx** » Tue May 06, 2014 4:05 pm

Yes Kess its exclusive OBD while K-tag is BDM/Boot mode/JTAG

by **crono11** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 11:37 pm

prendento tutti e 2 Kess OBD K-tag è BDM / modalità di avvio / JTAG farai l'attrezzatura completa

by **LFT** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:00 am

i have to say i really like the alientech hardware for flashing

by **cct** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:41 am

Well regarding Alientech tools is so, all the tools are generaly good, but I only hate those switchon/off on the OBD protocol of writting/reading, regarding K-Tag my opinion is that this tool is worth any money, because you can do realy a lot whit this tool. So for a user that is not a trouble for him to open ecu and that has some minor knowledge whit soldering I think this is the right way to go.

by **fgallegoll** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:41 pm

Alientech products are very good in term of how easy it is to connect the ECU. For example Ktag has a long list of ecu available for reading, the program has a very complete set of instructions including photos. The only problem is that both KESS and KTAG are expensive (master version), it can go up to 13000 to 15000 USD

by **sloboy81** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:18 pm

cct wrote:Well regarding Alientech tools is so, all the tools are generaly good, but I only hate those switchon/off on the OBD protocol of writting/reading, regarding K-Tag my opinion is that this tool is worth any money, because you can do realy a lot whit this tool. So for a user that is not a trouble for him to open ecu and that has some minor knowledge whit soldering I think this is the right way to go.

:thumbup: switch on switch off (on some vag 1.9 tdi motors can take some time until you get it) :thumbdown:

by **rocco_2013** » Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:40 pm

work with alientech k-tag - works really really fine

by **Putoban** » Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:43 am

federikg wrote:Hi, I´m looking for to buy a new interface, and I was seeing that in Argentina, a lot of tuners uses Alientech Interfaces.

I was investigating and I undestood that Kess is only for OBD2 connections and unable to work over the main board directly in the flash memory, is it true ?

Hello

KTag is a complement of kess v2.
If kess v2 can't read, ktag do!

by **-olsku-** » Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:23 pm

Hello

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