perksy
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 08:00 PM |
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Code Readers
Sorry if this has been done to death in the past
Been looking at buying a Code reader to keep in the garage, Don't want to spend alot of money on something that will only be used once and a
while
Has anybody bought one from ebay or similar that they can recommend ?
Have seen this one as an example
CAR DIAGNOSTIC SCANNER FAULT CODE READER CAN OBD2 | eBay
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Any advice appreciated
Cheers
Perksy
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britishtrident
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| posted on 8/11/11 at 08:12 PM |
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Never tried that one but it should be OK --- it reads live data which is essential.
I usually recommend Memoscan or Autel but at that price you can't argue.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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AntonUK
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| posted on 14/11/11 at 07:05 PM |
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I have a cheap USB type one for hooking into my lappy.. awesome bit of kit for the £20 or so i paid... Allows live data a logging.
Loads are on ebay
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/11/11 at 07:44 PM |
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Four problems with the very cheap USB or Bluetooth Chinese clone interfaces off Ebay or Amazon stemming from fact they use "not quite
clones" of the ELM chip because they don't have the full ELM instruction set. (1) They don't work on Fords (2) They tend to
give comms errors. (3) They are much slower than genuine ELM Chips. (4) A lot of the better diagnostic software recognises they are aren't
genuine and just refuses work with them.
Having said that they do work well enough to be very useful to most users AND they are very very cheap usually about £12 to !£15.
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TimEllershaw
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 12:11 PM |
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We have had a play with some of the cheap Bluetooth ones and several Android mobile phone apps for real-time monitoring and logging.
They have all worked OK. Not perfect, but definitely usable.
As with all cheap chinese clone stuff, quality control is not going to be high, so there is often a degree of luck in getting one that works. Of the
35 vehicles on our test fleet we put some expensive devices on a couple and cheap ones on the rest. We had one complely dead one and one that seemed
"temperamental".
Tim.
http://www.teenagecancertrust.org/
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britishtrident
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| posted on 15/11/11 at 05:38 PM |
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The heart of the problem is the genuine ELM chip is a specially made chip that the semi-clone manufacturers can't buy so they buy off the shelf
chips try and burn hacked about ELM code on it but it can never work 100% because the chip dosen't have the full functionality of the genuine
ELM chip.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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