nernm

nernm

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Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced (say less than 20 quid ) OBD bluetooth adapter for use with the torque app for android?

The ELM327 seems pretty ubiquitous, but prices range from £3 to £22 on amazon uk!

It needs to work with android 4.0 (some sellers say it doesnt) and also with a Freelander 2.

Obviously I dont want to spend twenty quid on something I can buy for a fiver, but on the other hand I want something that will work and be reliable! So I think its down to the seller. I'm thinking Amazon may have less dubious stuff and easier to return than eBay, but I may be wrong.:cool:
 
I can recommend the Scangauge 2 but it costs £120, and is wired direct to the OBD port. Maybe not as pretty, but more than likely more reliable and is there all the time and you don't need to put the phone somewhere where you can see it, and you can move it from car to car.
 
I have a elm 327 wired version on my laptop for previous cars and works a treat been thinking about a bluetooth elm for a while if you get one will you let me no how you get on with it
 
I eventually bought one of these for £5.99 as recommended by matt1295 above:
V1.5 ELM327 OBD2 OBDII Bluetooth Vehicle Car Diagnostic Interface Scanner | eBay

It works fine, however with the Freelander 2, because of the position of the OBD socket at the driver’s side, it sticks out a bit too far into the foot well and could be hit by your knee. So it’s not really too good to keep in place whilst driving.
So I bought the super-mini one for the Freelander 2 from the same people:
Super Mini OBD2 ELM327 V1.5 Bluetooth Car Scanner Android Torque Auto Scan Tool | eBay
for a pound extra, i.e. £7.99 and its fine for size.
I didn’t use the software that came with them, but instead used torque pro on my HTC Wildfire. I found it wouldn’t work when I changed the Bluetooth sensor. Solved by uninstalling and reinstalling the torque pro software.
Almost a year ago I spent over £100 on an Autel hand scanner which does the data, resets MILs etc, but the graph functions are nowhere as good!
 
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.



Code: 
ODB2 Compatible		ECU Name		Engine
No			Lucas MEMS EMS 1.9	All 4 Cyl Petrol up to 2000
Yes			Lucas MEMS 3 EMS 	All 4 Cyl Petrol 2001 Onwards
No			BOSCH EDC		All Diesel up to 2001
Yes			BOSCH DDE4		TD4 Diesel 2001 Onwards
Yes			SIEMENS EMS 2000	All V6 Petrol excl. NAS Spec
Yes			SIEMENS EMS MS43	V6 Petrol NAS Spec Only


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 2003 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
 
I have a Freelander 2004 1.8 petrol and I am using a Pumpkin Mini Bluetooth 4.0 OBD2 Car Scanner Adapter Tool ELM 327 ( bought from Amazon ) and pairing it on a Double Din Android Car Stereo. Works really for me. Hope this helps you.
 
Early 1.8 petrol (with MEMS1.9 ECU), L series diesel and early TD4s are not EOBD compliant and so will not work with the generic scanners.
 
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