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Posted by Amateur Machinist on November 6, 2008, 4:39 am
Please log in for more thread options > My Skoda Octavia diesel displayed a fault on the dash showing a fault with
> the pre-heaters.
> An owed favour gave me an electronic read out saving me a lot of money
> that the fault was my brake lights.
> The lights didn't work & a quick test showed that the fuse hadn't blown &
> the bulbs were OK.
> I had the switch changed (not easy) & all was OK.
> I told this to a mechanic I use for other things & he told me he had
> obtained a small readout that let you read the stored
> faults for less than £10.
> As the full tester costs thousands of pounds this sounds like a usefull
> purchase for the average punter.
> Does anyone know of a supplier of these & how good are they?
There should indeed be scope here for returning the maintenance of motor
vehicles
back into the hands of Sunday-morning dabblers!
I'm confident that we all have computer power to spare in our PCs of
today.
ISTR that such a unit should work on all cars that have got the latest
standard interface fitted (Things were not always the same; ISTR the "K"
line
which used a PWM protocol)
So, where do we go to gain information about each car. I'd imagine the
actual computer programming required to be straightforward.
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> the pre-heaters.
> An owed favour gave me an electronic read out saving me a lot of money
> that the fault was my brake lights.
> The lights didn't work & a quick test showed that the fuse hadn't blown &
> the bulbs were OK.
> I had the switch changed (not easy) & all was OK.
> I told this to a mechanic I use for other things & he told me he had
> obtained a small readout that let you read the stored
> faults for less than £10.
> As the full tester costs thousands of pounds this sounds like a usefull
> purchase for the average punter.
> Does anyone know of a supplier of these & how good are they?