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Anyone tried one of these?

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An advert for this keeps popping up on the Birmingham Face book site. Anyone tried one, I note they say it's not been tested on all cars.


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No and I wouldn't waste my money - the following line was enough to make me fall over laughing and close the page.
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GiveMeABreak wrote: 31 Aug 2017, 10:46 No and I wouldn't waste my money - the following line was enough to make me fall over laughing and close the page.
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Not much good for me either, I don't have a smartphone. :)
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No use to me, I have a Xantia ....with non standard wires in a standard ODB fitting :)
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I have tried them on the wife's hyundai accent does the trick its called an elm325 in different places its basically a clone of a clone the connections can be erratic but if your stuck it helps. thousands of them on flea-bay different names but same thing.
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Yes, it's a generic Bluetooth OBD scanner. They work OK, ut are available for less money. Nothing special.
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