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Tool Pants · 08-23-2007, 08:18 AM

The PST2 was discontinued a few years ago and replaced by the PIWIS. The last software version for the PST2 was 24.0. PST2 does not work on 2005 up.

There have been claims that in Europe there is a software version higher than 24 that will work on the newer cars, but there has been no proof. In the US it stopped at 24 and is no longer supported. At one time we thought we could use the PIWIS software to update the PST2 but that came to nothing.

The PST2 was hacked several years ago and then the clones came out. Sometimes it is done on a notebook. Sometimes it is done on a Bosch KTS 500. Either way you need an interface card and that was the big expense at one point in time when the clones first came out.

08-23-2007, 08:18 AM	#5
Tool Pants Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: San Jose Posts: 1,889	The PST2 was discontinued a few years ago and replaced by the PIWIS. The last software version for the PST2 was 24.0. PST2 does not work on 2005 up. There have been claims that in Europe there is a software version higher than 24 that will work on the newer cars, but there has been no proof. In the US it stopped at 24 and is no longer supported. At one time we thought we could use the PIWIS software to update the PST2 but that came to nothing. The PST2 was hacked several years ago and then the clones came out. Sometimes it is done on a notebook. Sometimes it is done on a Bosch KTS 500. Either way you need an interface card and that was the big expense at one point in time when the clones first came out.