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Vehicle Diagnostics using OBD-2

one connector, many protocols

Published in issue 345, July 2005

Vehicle Diagnostics using OBD-2
We published a do-it-yourself vehicle diagnosis system in Elektor Electronics back in October and November 2002. Since then, the interface has been standardised in the EU under the name EOBD, and is mandatory on all newly-registered cars, both petrol and diesel.
At the same time, the number of different protocols used for transferring data has risen from three to five, with the CAN bus protocol becoming more and more successful.

Relevant websites

Gerd Müller’s OBD-2 site:
www.obd-2.de
Jeff Noxon’s VAG interface:
www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/
VAG-COM:
www.ross-tech.com/
OBD-2 diagnostics program:
www.scantool.net/
Özen Elektronik:
www.ozenelektronik.com/

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Please note. In view of the complexity of international markets, Elektor cannot guarantee the availability of components for this project.

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