OBDII scanner (ELM327)
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:07 pm
Folks,
My AFS headlights in my 2011 Passat went south on me last week so they no longer follow bends or do their little dance on startup so I bought a bluetooth OBDII scanner thinking I could get the fault codes from VCDS-lite or Scanmaster.
Doesn't work though, despite me forcing the COM port to be COM2 instead of something ridiculous like COM7 nothing will connect. Any recommendations for a cabled OBDII scanner? Preferably RS232 (9 pin) but USB should be OK also. Reading the descriptions of the ebay scanners they seem to top out at 2010 cars so I wonder if mine has a newer protocol that the 1.4 ELM327 chip doesn't support....
Cheers!
Adrian/witchy
My AFS headlights in my 2011 Passat went south on me last week so they no longer follow bends or do their little dance on startup so I bought a bluetooth OBDII scanner thinking I could get the fault codes from VCDS-lite or Scanmaster.
Doesn't work though, despite me forcing the COM port to be COM2 instead of something ridiculous like COM7 nothing will connect. Any recommendations for a cabled OBDII scanner? Preferably RS232 (9 pin) but USB should be OK also. Reading the descriptions of the ebay scanners they seem to top out at 2010 cars so I wonder if mine has a newer protocol that the 1.4 ELM327 chip doesn't support....
Cheers!
Adrian/witchy