Hi,

 

I finally offered myself an OBD interface, the VGate iCar Pro Wi-FI OBD2. Anyone here have experience with it (also with things like "better leave it out unless you really need it")?

 

Also, what app(s) do you suggest? I've got an iPhone (SE1) but also a ChromeTab that can run most Android apps. For now I've tested with the basic version of "Car Scanner" which seems to work (but is quite slow in reading out the diagnostics), I haven't yet figured out if there's a real point in buying the full version (or what the difference is between that, and the yearly subscription version).

 

I'm not planning on doing lots of tinkering, but I might want to activate the aux. bulbs in the front fog lights as daylight running lights and maybe put LEDs in there. (I have LED parking lights but I have to turn those on before I switch the car on lest one or both are reported as faulty.)

 

Thanks!

23 hours ago, RJVB said:

I might want to activate the aux. bulbs in the front fog lights as daylight running lights

The facelift version of your car (you don't say the age of your car) has DRLs adjacent to the fog lamps in the Elegance trim. My 2012 car had these fitted but not activated when supplied.

Your app will not be able to activated the DRLs. You need something like Carista to make software changes. This is what I used to activate my DRLs and then used the procedure shown in the handbook to switch them on. Note that confusingly the handbook calls switch on  "activation"!

If you do not have DRLs fitted you may be able to use the fog lights but check the list in the Carista website.

 

If you try a work around, remember that by law DRLs must be OFF when the headlights are on.

 

Thanks, I'll have a look at Carista. (I'm not going to pay for 2 apps though. ^^)

 

I have a sept. 2009 model, but I think there were no non-facelift models with the 1.6TDI engine with particle filter. Anyway, my foglights do have the extra compartment with regular lightbulbs on the outside. It always annoyed me I couldn't use those.

 

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If you try a work around, remember that by law DRLs must be OFF when the headlights are on.

 

In the UK? I'm pretty certain it isn't the case here, or else nobody cares because those fancy shaped LED things remain on at night in a good portion of the cars I cross. Often annoying because of glare.

(I don't know about the UK, but one way around that would be to use coloured lights, orange for instance. A priori it's allowed to decorate a vehicle with those, and might even work better for visibility purposes.)