diagnostics

hi all
was wondering if anyone has experiance of obd1 and obd2 running on a laptop with bluetooth connection and if so can they recomend any software to help me out with 2003 td4 diesel
kind regards carderv
thanks in advance

hope someone hel[ps you out mate as i need to no aswell lol

my unit works on wifi and has worked spot on with every car apart from my freelander which i cant get it to connect to the ecu :-(

Being in IT myself, this is something I have researched into at length.

The key with "code readers" is to find out what ECU your Freelander has. Thus depending on the specific ECU you have, it will determine if you can use a basic ODB2 reader to read simple error codes.





I use an elm327 wifi dongle with dashcmd on my iPhone. I have seen other use elm327 Bluetooth and torque on their android phone. Those are about the lowest cost odb2 readers you can have.

I find that most elm327 software for pc lacking compared to the phone apps. There might be some good PC software with ELM327 USB, but I have not found them. Iphone/Android seems the way to go on the ultra cheap.

Here is a link of a member showing an Android device using torque and an ELM723 Bluetooth dongle on a TD4 Freelander.

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f9/obd-ii-readings-211825.html

Here is what dashcmd looks like on my iPhone on a KV6 NAS Freelander.
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/2909925-post14.html

if you an Android phone or tablet and a blue tooth eobd adapter you can download an app but it may not work on an earlier freelanders, it will not connect to all of the controllers for all faults etc