MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 04:31:05 pm

Title: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 04:31:05 pm
And it works without frying the ecu!? :signLOL:

http://iobd2.co.uk/
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: Hedge on December 14, 2012, 05:24:31 pm
Why would it fry the ECU?  :confused:
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: Polo6n1600i on December 14, 2012, 05:44:43 pm
damn that a sexy piece of kit!
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: Sam89 on December 14, 2012, 05:53:51 pm
Thats wicked!
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: gazon69 on December 14, 2012, 05:56:25 pm
Quote from: Sam89 on December 14, 2012, 05:53:51 pm
Thats wicked!
+1

Might try one. Got a bit of money kicking around in paypal.  :evilgrin:
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: jameelno1 on December 14, 2012, 06:23:52 pm
ive got to get one of these  :party:
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: Poppa Dom on December 14, 2012, 06:31:57 pm
Just be wary - success on the VAG platform depends on how much R&D has been done to sniff out the pid's to interface with the software and app they have developed. You may find that it will give you just generic OBDII information and not much else.

Dom
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 06:43:03 pm
That's what I'm wary off! Or it's gonna upset the ecu...
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: Poppa Dom on December 14, 2012, 06:46:03 pm
Quote from: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 06:43:03 pm
That's what I'm wary off! Or it's gonna upset the ecu...
It will not upset the ECU at all if it is a read only device, which it looks like it is. Only pid it will be bale to access is fault code reset I would have thought.

Dom
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: sub39h on December 14, 2012, 07:05:53 pm
i think Darren (mortygttdi) has one of those - but he's of a VXR persuasion nowadays. i've seen it running on his engine and it looks a handy bit of kit
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 08:00:55 pm
I just want it for the toys... Boost... Afr... Etc... Not fault diagnostics...
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: richtung on December 14, 2012, 09:07:17 pm
There is an app for Android called "torque" which is free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torquescan (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.prowl.torquescan) that pretty much does the same thing. The pro version costs £3.

Here is a list of dials that can be displayed:
http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Dials (http://torque-bhp.com/wiki/Dials)

Get a Bluetooth ODB reader from ebay for just over £10:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Android-Torque-Car-ELM-327-OBD2-OBDII-Bluetooth-Diagnostic-Interface-CAN-BUS-/110761891151?pt=UK_Diagnostic_Tools_Equipment&hash=item19c9ec554f I got mine from this seller - my reader works fine.

So, if you have an adroid phone, this works out ten times cheaper tha. iobd2 product!!

Give it a go, the for sake of little over a tenner, its worth a punt - even for the fault reading / clearing funtion alone!  :happy2:

Hope this helps

Rich


Edit: some screenshots from google:

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fen.jamnews.ir%2FImages%2FNews%2FSmal_Pic%2F13-4-1391%2FIMAGE634769255650272927.png&hash=d8d89134a6964ea70086e35baf8868f13a3fafb2)

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.appbrain.com%2Fscreen%3Fid%3D2461975285174023683%26amp%3Bi%3D1&hash=a7c5e697bace9e12d55591d26f74d2bc9edfed38)

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.appsapk.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F10%2FTorque-Lite-OBD2-Car.jpg&hash=242f15a9cd3de20d0656214d16324381d70b2334)
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: sub39h on December 14, 2012, 09:16:24 pm
Quote from: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 08:00:55 pm
I just want it for the toys... Boost... Afr... Etc... Not fault diagnostics...

why not polar FIS+?
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: rich83 on December 14, 2012, 09:20:32 pm
I'm still waiting on my eBay 15 jobbie..... :-)
Title: Re: Has anyone got one of these
Post by: E30Dom on December 14, 2012, 09:47:51 pm
Only have an iPhone 5 and midline...