[Diy_efi] OBD II cable "

[David Cooley]

considering 99% of all otrher scantools are $500 to several thousand
dollars, yes...  for what it does, whic includes enhanced codes and the
ability to format your own messages to the PCM etc, the ability to talk to
most ABS, air bag etc modules and the fact that for 240.00 you can get ALL
OBD-II data formats plus CAN bus, it is dirt cheap.
 


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From: diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org [mailto:diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org] On
Behalf Of Bobby Yates Emory
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:01 PM
To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] OBD II cable "


David,

Please pardon a newbie type question.

You said inexpensive.  The lowest price I saw was $122.  Was that what you
meant by inexpensive?

Thanks,
Bobby


On 5/6/05, David Cooley <n5xmt at bellsouth.net> wrote: 

You have to have the software that is made for the specific cable you use...
Nothing is a pin to pin connection, it all takes hardware in the cable to
translate the OBD-II protocols to Serial...
http://www.obd-2.com/
Has a great setup, inexpensive and software is always free.


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org] On Behalf Of MATOSINHO
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 8:03 AM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org  <mailto:diy_efi at diy-efi.org> .
> Subject: [Diy_efi] OBD II cable "
>
> This is the first time I write to the diy-efi forum asking
> for help. As my english is far from brilliant and I am not an
> skilfull engineer (only studying my second course) I had 
> decided to make one of the OBDII scan that "scan-tool" sells.
> Unfortunately it didn't work but I didn't care because
> everything was OK with my '03 VW Golf. For some reason she
> started to fail when starting, a couple of weeks ago and 
> there is a funny array in the on-board computer.
>  So my question is is there any downloadable (free or very cheap if
> possible) that allows me to read the error codes using an OBD
> II cable connected directly to my personal laptop???. 
>
> I would be very gratefur if any help was be recieved.
>
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