Hi Everyone

Completely new to this concept, so feel free to point the obvious out to me

Essentially looking for a cheap & cheerful way to get some form of readouts from the ECU (preferably to something like a pda/smartphone). Just out of curiosity of trying to find out the inner workings of what goes on electronically under the hood, and learn a bit more about the workings of it. Ive seen some ELM327 bluetooth devices on ebay for <£20, but have heard bad things about them, I don't need to be able to change things, so has anyone got any ideas on this?

Thanks

dmz

ps Mods if this is in the wrong place please move it

Edited 31 July, 201114 yr by dmz

I have a Scangauge II that has successfully read & cleared several codes on different vehicles

cost around £120

it can provide useful info when driving so I leave it lplugged in on the dash

eg. -

engine load

water temp (- current vehicle does not have temp gauge)

speed in Kph handy for france as speedo only in MPH

trip comp & fuel economy

www.scangauge.com/

I got a bluetooth-obd2 thing at home, have worked fine for little over a year.

It doesn't work with iPhone tho (for you apple-fanboys out there) so get yourself an android and install Torque =D!

Don't use it anymore since I have VAG-COM for my own car, still using it for others x).

As per 2tite, I have a Scanguage which is very useful. Best of all it's reliable.