[SGVLUG] Anyone familiar with OBD

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:14 AM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> ack!
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> OBD - what a scam they have on the mechanics and
> us, attempting to force us to only use the
> dealership to determine what is wrong with
> our cars.
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> My mechanic had to buy some expensive equipment
> from a 3rd party to handle the new OBD stuff,
> it was NOT cheap.

Actually OBDII helped Your mechanic sense the standard has to be open
and documented (its the law), but that does not make it cheap. If it
was not for OBDII every manufacturer would use a different proprietary
interface and protocol. I did not answer earlier because I have not
really "hacked" OBD. I just have an OBDII to computer interface. You
can check out http://freediag.sourceforge.net/ which is an open source
project to talk to OBDII, they have a lot more info.

> frustrating.
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> I WOULD love to hear what you find out Solomon.
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> would be nice to have even a presentation ;)
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> thanks!
> matti
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> --- On Tue, 9/30/08, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: [SGVLUG] Anyone familiar with OBD
>> To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>, "LAMP-SIG User" <lamp-user at maillist.lampsig.org>
>> Cc: roger.garvin at gmail.com
>> Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2008, 11:19 PM
>> Yo penguin cronies,
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>> I'm wondering if anyone in the two groups I frequent
>> most have every hacked OBD?  That short for Onboard
>> Diagnostics, wiki link description here:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
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>> This might actually be more applicable to my local 2600
>> chapter, but I keep forgetting to look up which ones are
>> available in my neighborhood.
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> Solomon
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