On 18/05/2018 16:49, David wrote:
£2.99 suggests that not a lot of
investment was made in the production and even less in support.
£2.99 and over a million people have paid for it.
The OP is not trying to upgrade software just read the codes and any
real time output from the ECU
Torque works with
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Works on vehicles made by Ford, VW, GM/Vauxhall/Opel, Chrysler,
Mercedes, Volkswagen, Audi, Jaguar, Citroen, Peugoet, Skoda, Kia, Mazda,
Lexus, Subaru, Renault, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, BMW, Toyota,
Seat, Dodge, Jeep, Pontiac and many more vehicle makes, European, US,
Far East, etc. Some vehicle ECUs may support more/less features than others
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Try Torque for free and see what you get. The free (lite) version does
all the basic stuff and has over 5 million downloads. Add plugins by the
same author such as Torquescan.
In use when you get a fault code you also get a link into the WWW that
can give you clues to what may be going wrong.
At one time a lot of OBD II information was freely available on the Net
but the car manufactures cracked down on the "illegal" publication of
their data and many of the sites disappeared. This is probably the
reason that main dealers can still charge £100+ for plugging in their
diagnostic equipment to read fault codes.
Not necessarily OBD software, but some of the better software packages
available are actually free to download and use. You can make a
contribution if you wish but it's not compulsory.
If you own a Ford/Mazda then for real time monitoring I recommend
ForScan - again free.
http://www.forscan.org/home.html
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