Hi,

I am planning to buy ELM327 (1.5a or 1.4) tool from ebay.

Will it work with Fabia 2005 model?

I prefer ELM327 than blue color device.

Please advice if ELM327 device will work with my car.

Specifications:

OBDII Protocols:

ISO15765-4 (CAN)

ISO14230-4 (KWP2000)

ISO9141-2

J1850 VPW

J1850 PWM

Output protocol: RS232

Baud rate: 9600 or 38400

Indicator LEDs: OBD Tx/Rx, RS232 Tx/Rx, Power

Operating voltage: 12V, internal protection from short circuits/overvoltages

Nominal idle current: 45mA

Color: Back + Orange + Blue

Item Size: 8.8 * 4.6 * 2.5cm

Package Size: 20 * 15 * 2.5cm

Item Weight: 130g

Package Weight: 139g

USB Cable Length: 176.5cm

ELM v 1.3 onward should work perfectly on vag group vehicles from 2001 on petrol or diesel. I have both ELM and VCDS

Whats 'ELM327' ? I presume its similar to VCDS, is it better in any way ? cheers - Stuart

ps - just done a search and ELM327 is a microchip converting CAN bus data to rs232 for use on a computer. but do you need a pogram for the PC ?

Edited 9 February, 201115 yr by sparky2

ELM based hardware is not supported by VCDS, so if you wanna use that combination - it simply won't work. For this specific combination there is pretty much no need for an ELM based interface since a 2005 Fabia has no CAN-diagnostic to begin with. If you don't like to spend the big bucks on a real/current VCDS system, a cheap KKL interface should do the job too and works with a lot of OBD2/EOBD software.