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| Author: | timothyd [ Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Best OBD2 monitoring device/app |
Does anyone have any experience with and OBD2 scanner that will monitor live data and put it in useful information. I know that some scanners seem to work better than others on certain vehicles, and our little crd does seem to be picky. My main sensors I want to monitor is boost and temps. |
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| Author: | casm [ Fri Oct 11, 2019 12:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best OBD2 monitoring device/app |
My recommendation would be for an ELM327 Bluetooth Adapter, the Android device of your choice, and the Torque Pro app. Been using this combination for about a decade and recommend it strongly. Torque also has a free version, but it's more than worth the $5 being asked for it. What info are you looking to pull from the ECU? |
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| Author: | foxmiles [ Fri Oct 11, 2019 1:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best OBD2 monitoring device/app |
I'll second the Bluetooth adapter and torque pro. I have a Bluelink MX, but I've heard the $12 ones work just as well. (I already had mine). There's a catch though. The ECU randomly stops communicating. Mine will work fine for 5 to 20 minutes. A hard acceleration tends to trigger it and it won't reconnect until I shut everything off, unplug the adapter and wait a few minutes. If you're testing something it's fine, but I don't recommend relying on it (any obd2 data on any tool) instead of actually installing gauges. |
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| Author: | timothyd [ Fri Oct 11, 2019 2:32 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best OBD2 monitoring device/app |
I have iOS but the wifi elm will work and they are some highly rated apps. I just wanted to make sure the $13 elm devices worked with these libertys. I am mostly looking for temps and boost pressure currently, I am not using this is a gauge replacement, just don't have the funds to do a gauge install currently. I just got the TC done so I put on my hot tune and wanted to ballpark my boost pressure. |
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| Author: | casm [ Fri Oct 11, 2019 4:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best OBD2 monitoring device/app |
timothyd wrote: I have iOS but the wifi elm will work and they are some highly rated apps. I just wanted to make sure the $13 elm devices worked with these libertys. I am mostly looking for temps and boost pressure currently, I am not using this is a gauge replacement, just don't have the funds to do a gauge install currently. I just got the TC done so I put on my hot tune and wanted to ballpark my boost pressure. Yep, it should be fine for that. Just don't expect to get transmission temperatures that way - some people have claimed to have success reading it via OBD-II, most others (myself included) haven't. |
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