Obd2

[fjclaus]

Does anyone have an OBD2 scanner? What's a good kind to get? I'm looking to get one to do some scanning on my venture. I was told there are also ones that will check my transmission and some some adjusting on it's own. What's a good OBD2 scanner to buy?

[merc81]

You can spend a lot of money on those. I have a proscan unit based on the elm327 chip. You can build one yourself (do a search on elm327 at google) or you can buy one assembled with software from the proscan site. the guy is a member of this site (username = Proscan) and his web site is http://www.myscantool.com/. I got mine a couple years back and have used the free upgrade feature on his software twice.

It does the basic stuff you need; reads the MIL code so you can lookup the problem, in most cases the software can tell you what the code means, in some cases you need a book to look it up.

It won't talk to the BCM or the tranny, but when those units set codes, you can read them. For $150 or less, I don't think there is much else out there. Real scanners cost much more than this.
John

[intravino]

Check out these guys:


http://www.carplugs.com/obd2usb.html


ELM 327 Based scanner.