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    Hi im interested in buy tool for Mercedes Key programing.
    Please give me advice and share your experiance what tool you use ?
    Thanks in Advance !

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    lots of good and reliable mercedes tools , diagcodes extreme mb tool is very good , vvdi mb tool is good as is abrites mb , also you can do most fbs3 with autel tools , many more will do fbs3 , none at all will do fbs4.

    you need to decide on the mercedes coverage you need and your realistic budget and fit a tool to your needs and hopes.
    Last edited by rapidlocksmiths; 19th June, 2023 at 08:36 AM.

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    i need it for 211/212, 203/204, 221 and ML-164 cars, thats i belive are cars equipet with FBS3. I took a look on diagcode extreme mb tool and i see the price very good but it work stable ?
    Im thinking of buying Key Master Poldiag tool, but still waiting for reviews. My budget is up to 2000 euro.

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    VVDI MB is probably the best of the 'low cost' tools. You can buy adapters and such to make the connections fast and easy, it's reliable the only issue is the token system, it's a pay per use model, however most come with 1 free token per day for a year.

    VVDI KTP is more expensive but you get a fairly well featured key programming tool for other purposes, and is standalone with no laptop required.

    CGDI offers 1 free use per day in perpetuity, however you must be more familiar with how these cars work and be confident in wiring up the EZS manually. It also appears to generate the key EEPROM or write the keys poorly at times, especially with early cars you'll have a key working but the dashboard will say key is calculating.

    Autel im608 with G-Box offers good coverage but it can be really, really finicky for password extraction I've found. No usage limits, however you'll need to keep your update sub current for the online service required for generating keys and extracting passwords.

    AVDI has excellent coverage, and doesn't require you know the system quite as well as some of the others. But it's expensive and the error handling if the internet drops during extraction is frankly terrible(it'll sit there spinning it's wheels forever if it drops at the wrong time). The manuals can be a bit useless though, especially for wiring diagrams.

    Those are the solutions I've used many times, others like Poldiag, Diagspeed, Simon Touch etc I've only use a couple times and I'll let someone else speak in respect to those solutions.

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    autoTkey (19th June, 2023), SotirZah (20th June, 2023), wuza (25th June, 2023)

 

 

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