Onboard Diagnostics with iphone

[JasonC]

Hey chaps

Bear with me as this may take some explaining

Has anyone had any experience with EOBD ( i believe that this the European version of ODBII) on the Boxster 986 (uk model)

The reason is; I'm looking at buying a 2003 Boxster S but there is no dashboard computer. Now being a lover of tech i thought that you should be able to connect your iphone (or other phone) to the engine diagnostics

i found this for the US OBDII standard that can work with bluetooth or wifi but i don't think that it'll work with UK cars (different standards)

http://www.youtube.com/plxkiwi#p/a/u/0/S7V-mOTeiM8

Apparently the same EU equivalent standard wasn't implemented until 2001 on petrol cars. See link:
http://www.gendan.co.uk/article_1.html

What standard does Porsche use? Or is it proprietary?

Sorry to ramble!

Cheers

Jason

[JasonC]

Looks like this baby might do it

http://www.obdkey.com/wifi/index.asp

The hardware supports EOBD and OBDII and is a wifi device.

The software works with Windows mobile and iphone

Not sure about Android phones though

http://www.obdkey.com/obd_support.asp

It's a bit vague on that

I just need to find out where the OBD socket is now!


Jason

[tr7v8]

Buy a copy of this months Car Mechanics, they have a test of various EOBD type code readers.