VCDS vs. Competitive Products

Hi Leutz, after I have not found satisfactory results about the SuFu, I ask here the question, whether it must be “immediately” VCDS or whether one is not equally well advised with alternatives. As a proud, relative new Phaetonist I wonder, if one really has to go for the screwdriver of his trust because of every fault report. Apart from the coal that one puts on the table, in my case it is more the time that I have to go every time for a We rkstatt visit to the smoke has to write. As a primal Ossi with screwdriver mentality, of course, the idea “can I get myself…” is immediately in the room. But you have to know where it crunches in the electronic belly of the thickness. So I carry myself with the thought of getting such a diagnostic tool. And now to the poodle core, must there be necessarily VCDS or are there alternatives that are also good? At Ross-Tech, the saving version for 3 vehicles costs more than twice as much as to m for example the tool from autoaid, which (only for the Phaeton) costs 115€ incl. shipping. Supposedly you can read out and adjust everything you find in the depths of the ECUs. I also have no problem with a used purchase from the VCDS at ebay, currently one for the 3-FIN saver variant, currently 130€ with 2 free FIN’s… So what do, bid or grab to the alternative product…???