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Do these work with iPhone apps and are there any free OBD iPhone apps that will provide some usefulness to see some of the real-time engine data, or log, or look up diagnostic codes? Any recommendations for a free iPhone app that will work with one of these scanners? I'm not a mechanic nor do I plan to do any of my own repairs.
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Searching eBay for "obd2 wifi" I found a bunch of cheap Chinese ones on eBay for under $10 like these: There is also a smaller transparent-blue cased one, plus other variations all varying from $3-4 up to $8-10.
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Can anyone recommend anything? I heard that for iPhone apps it is better to use a Wifi-enabled dongle. I've been meaning to get a cheap OBD2 wifi dongle to show readouts on my iPhone 5c while I drive plus look at various bits of data or codes. But a few cycles of this later it finally stuck around to be caught and repaired. Clearing the codes and driving the vehicle let me know several weeks later that the fault had gone bad again. I have had this occur when there are several possible causes for the error code, and all checked out good. Intermittent failures - It is good to have an indicator that the fault has returned to the fault state so you can actually diagnose it rather than chasing snarks. In one pernicious case an electronic counter in a module trips and the only way to reset it is to replace the module-even if nothing is wrong or if all service recommended at that mileage has been performed. In some models the warning light is set when a fixed number of miles is passed indicating that service is due. The error is a warning - not a real error. Better to clear the error and allow the one bit display to warn you if something new crops up. Often the ECU will figure it out and clear the code, but sometimes it takes quite a few driving cycles. There are many times when clearing the errors is appropriate.
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There are scanners out there which will work for almost everything, but the ones I am aware of cost several hundred dollars for the hardware and software to support a single manufacturer, and will cost in four figure values to support a wide range of manufacturers. I would carefully check in automotive forums to verify that a particular scanner will do the functions you want on your model car before committing. No help for me on my pre-2000 vehicles, and probably not for you on your 1996 vehicle. The higher priced and newer scanners claim CAN bus capability which is normally where ABS functions are controlled, but only work for newer vehicles. Unfortunately resetting the ABS system is not an OBD II function. The lowest cost one also does not report live data which can be very useful in diagnosing problems. The biggest difference is that the lowest cost scanner is painfully slow, and merely reports trouble codes, it does not translate the codes into natural language like "Misfire in cylinder 4". They all work reasonably well for OBD II functions. While I do not have any of the mentioned scanners I have a number of "low cost" scanners, ranging in price from $20 US up to $150 US. I'm interested to know if any of you have tried any of these or other cheapo OBD2 scanners. Especially on the blue BT ones the reviews are very mixed, main problem being incompatibility and inconsistency.
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I've been looking through the reviews and they're either good or bad on these things, there's surprisingly little in between. It's also supposedly compatible with SAAB.
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I've also found this: Which is more targeted towards the tuner community and i'm thinking to myself if this would read and clear the ABS fault. Something like this: Interestingly enough it only works on old windows ( XP and older ). But these are likely to contain a shoddy rewrite of the original firmware, so to avoid that i looked up some USB ones that i thought would be at least more likely to have better firmware ( ie.
#MPPS V13 EBAY BLUETOOTH#
Eg: And here's a cheapo bluetooth one that i found. While doing so i stumbled upon many different OBD2 scanners and even a couple interesting stories surrounding them. I've been looking for a cheap OBD2 scanner, mainly to reset the ABS fault ( broken sensor ) in my '96 NG900.