Just some links to the obd items i bought to read my car. for mk2f owners youll need the adaptor 

 

Reader

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/292599526600

 

Obd 1 -2 converter

Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362434941856

 

Edited 23 September, 20187 yr by kiran_182

shouldve got vcds and a lead ,shows some live data which is usefull  

Yeah i didnt want to have to take a laptop whenever i wanted to read codes on a car

I have one of the above the lead for mk2f . Great kit but don't understand all the codes 😙

10 minutes ago, 1vw2many said:

Great kit but don't understand all the codes 😙

 

Have a look at this http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page  gives a list of various common proceedures and this http://wiki.ross-tech.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Fault_Codes  for the fault codes and their meanings

Very impressed . Thanks may come in very useful in the future.

Another one www.gendan.co.uk/codebank  not tried that one but it gets a mention in this months Car Mechanics magazine, that has a good article on Diagnostics 👍