“First off, I consider myself a car guy, not quite a 'gear-head'; but I love my cars. I don't drive the nicest of Benz's, or the fastest of Porsche's, but my VW is my dream car.. and I drive it, for lack of a better term 'enthusiastically' (spirited)...”
Without the proper equipment, there simply is no way that a car manufactured in the past 10 years can be properly serviced from bumper to bumper without computer-assisted diagnostics.