Best buy car fault reader

[Taffyrhys]

Hello, i was wondering if anybody knows a best buy car fault reader for OBD 11 as there are a few to choose from on e-bay and don't want to buy a dud one, any advice would be a great. I would like it to read and clear faults

[citronut]

i think it realy depends how far you want to delve into the diagnostics,
i think i saw someone on here saying they had bought an ELM but not sure which modle, and they said it was very good for i think he said around £15 quid, you do need to conect it to a laptop/pc though,


otherwise a lot of people on here have found the Chinese LEXIA clones to be ok now they seem to have sorted the software out,

regards malcolm

[CitroJim]

On what car?

Remember that Citroens before 2001 (petrol) and 2004 (diesel) are not OBDII compliant and can only be read with a Lexia. Specialist parts of a Citroen, even if the engine ECU is OBDII compliant, will still need the Lexia for such things as the suspension and body computer and so on...

best to get a Chinese lexia and that has an OBDII scan tool built in...

[Jabo]

I bought one of these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ELM-327-USB-1 ... 4154aec206" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
to read the fault codes on my 2001 Citroen C5 2.0 petrol. It cost under £14. With this I can read and erase my stored fault codes, monitor sensor data e.g. RPM, emissions data etc.

It connects to the laptop via USB and interfaces with OBDII software. I use the PCMScan software package which is awesome but if you want a free package I recommend OBD-DIAG http://www.er-forum.de/obd-diag-dl/inde ... 20Software&" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;