Plain and simple question. I hope..

I wantto find a OBD-II to serial cable to plug into my laptop so I can read all 3 types (VPW, PMW and ISO).

Software seems to be plentiful, but if anyone knows of good free software out there, please let me know..

I have found some cables but they state not to plug directly into computer serial port.

Any help is appreciated..

 

Hi there I just bought a cable off Ebay to read VPW protocol, but for extra cost you can specify it to read all three protocols

Here is the link to his auction, there is only a few hours to go but he always relists them:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MakeTrack=true

I hope this helps! the guy is in China but the item arrived within a week of my purchase. pay with PayPal it will convert your Dollars in to GBP if that's what the price is. I paid £45 $76.50 which included shipping.

If you want to ask the guy a question I found him very helpful and communication was excellent after my purchase and there was free OBD2 data reding software.

Cheers Andy

 

Hope I understand what you want. Here's a link that might be it:
http://www.akmcables.com/
I bought the $65 cable for my laptop. Wish I would have spent the extra and gotten the molded one.

If you go to this page and follow some links, I think you'll find what's out there for software. I bought TunerCat and the EE definition file. It's a bit out of my league as I need to learn much before moving away from the hypertech plug and play.

Regards

 

Unfortunately this is OBD1 cables and software, not OBD2. He's looking for OBD2 (1996 and above).

I have a few OBD2 sites bookmarked, even though I haven't used any of them yet (I have Tunercat's OBD1 stuff, and it's excellent, so I'm sure their OBD2 stuff is also excellent).

Tunercat OBD2

http://www.monodax.com/products.html

Gore Proscan (each type of OBD2 protocol is seperate)

http://www.gore-research.com/product.../purchase.html

PCMSCAN (all protocols included)

http://www.palmerperformance.com/sto...products_id=29

Hope this helps.