MPPS (v16) bricked a 2007 A3 that I worked on. I tried reading a 2006 A3 with mpps v13 with no luck. Luckily I had a BDM backup.
It is my opinion that you should take MPPS clones and toss them in the garbage, unless bricking ecus is a favorite past time of yours.
I've not used v16 on anything other than my 2012 Golf R, but my v13 has been tarted around A/S3s from 05-2010. Also MED9 can be recovered up the port very easily. Yet to have a "bricked" MED9 with any version of MPPS.