fred_gustafsson Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Garmin is selling a dongle that connect to the OBD port and gives you onscreen gauges for engine load, coolant temp, timing advance, intake air temp, RPM etc. It also gives to any errors reported by the ECU. Has anyone tried it? will it work on a duratec? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markiebabes Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 I saw this on their site looks interesting 😬 I would also be interested to see if anyone's using it 😬 If you have a look on YouTube they have some videos of it working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Hughes Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 I have one in the post arriving on Monday. Will give it a go and report back if you want. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irrotational Posted May 21, 2011 Share Posted May 21, 2011 Looks very whizzy - very cool - does it work on ANY car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_gustafsson Posted May 22, 2011 Author Share Posted May 22, 2011 John, that's great news. Which model of satnav do you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBL Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Never heard of this. Link, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Area Representative Paul Richards Posted May 22, 2011 Area Representative Share Posted May 22, 2011 Ok I'll google it for you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BBL Posted May 22, 2011 Share Posted May 22, 2011 Thanks. I searched the Garmin sites, both US and UK, as well as YouTube, but could not find it. Was unsure what terms to use in Google (turns out "Garmin dongle" actually located it ). Anyway, thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich N Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 If you have an Android phone, and a £10 OBD bluetooth adaptor from China, you can use Torque which is also very good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted May 23, 2011 Member Share Posted May 23, 2011 There' an iPhone app called "Rev": http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/ Anyone used it? Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Quoting Jonathan Kay: There' an iPhone app called "Rev": http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/ Anyone used it? Jonathan so this provides a wireless connection to the ECU and an app to read/write to it? could be interesting if it catches on and people start hacking ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted May 23, 2011 Member Share Posted May 23, 2011 It could be the enabling technology for platoon driving... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(automobile) Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnv Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 even more possibilities if the car owner doesn't know there is one attached to his ECU and doesn't take any notice of the bloke wandering up and down the paddock playing with his iphone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Jonathan Kay Posted May 23, 2011 Member Share Posted May 23, 2011 And, after monitoring your car's health, you can now monitor your own: http://www.ehi.co.uk/news/industry/6895/ford-drives-mhealth-devices-into-cars Jonathan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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