I've never owned a dial indicator, I've been using the "push until it sounds like a bag of hammers, then back off a little" method, then adjust for cold starts. The aaz seemed to like it just fine, and I have the vcds, and engine already has harness on it. I was also under the impression that the mechanical measurement wasn't necessarily accurate at least for setting timing on non rover mtdi pumps? I was reading the pulse adapter thread.
Eventually I'll need to buy the correct tool to set a 4bt ve pump anyways, but the kick I get out of parking a mk2 tdi, with the tdi timing checker running, next the automakers tarped over/chess board/zebra camo/top secret/ next years model/ high altitude test caravan,....
is priceless,
I was reminded of this a week or so ago when the pair of 2016 a4 tdi's were parked at the grocery store, and i was driving a 91 golf gasser with a geisha sticker across the hood,
i parked next door and walked to the grocery store