Diagnostic hook up for laptop

[Toahk]

Is there any way to run diagnostics on my car via my laptop? its a fairly new laptop 1ghz 256 ram etc, and where could I find an adapter to do so if this is possible.

[maxpower]

it only goes one way.

http://www.ghg.net/dharrison/obdscan.ht ... rface.html

[Just another 240]

damn too bad s13 are obd

[Touchdown038]

Damn, that would be sweet.... plug your laptop right into your ECU and it tells you what's wrong. Now all I need is a laptop..... lol

[Just another 240]

touchdown, u have a 89 240, it won't work

[stretch240sx]

why wont it work on s13?

[Just another 240]

cuase on the website that was giving it is for obdII...i believe s13 have obd....not II

[Touchdown038]

So all I need now is an S14 and a laptop then..... lol

[stretch240sx]

im gonna go out and buy a s14 just for this lol

[Just another 240]

i was just thinking about the same thing.lolz!

[Aries]

there are a few of us arround who still have the chinese connections that run off a serial port and will read odbI and odbII

[EZcheese15]

there are a few of us arround who still have the chinese connections that run off a serial port and will read odbI and odbII

Huh?

You can't hook up a laptop to an OBDI nissan because nobody sells the connectors. You have to be able to plug into the OBDI nissan port

[Toahk]

Darn wish I had some "chinese connections" =)

[kami240sx]

if you have a PDA, you might wanna look at nology's toyhttp://www.nology.com/products.html

supposed to do all that, graph everything, dyno(would it be possible?), and can measure everything(memory permitting) on long trips. laptop batteries might not be able to last that long =p

[yellow_jacket]

I can hook up to OBDI with my snap on scann tool. So I know they make the connectors.

[EZcheese15]

I can hook up to OBDI with my snap on scann tool. So I know they make the connectors.

Not any that I know of for laptop connections. Snap-on is different....just like OTC. It cost $4k, whereas obdii laptop scantool connectors are only about $200. Never said OBDI is unreadable....just not with a laptop, as far as i'm aware.

[yellow_jacket]

Good point. You could probably do it, but you would have to make your own connector.

I wish I could afford an OTC

[EZcheese15]

Good point. You could probably do it, but you would have to make your own connector.

I wish I could afford an OTC

I think the biggest problem will be finding laptop supported OBDI software.