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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Doodley on 21 January 2008, 21:37:55

Title: oooooooh
Post by: Doodley on 21 January 2008, 21:37:55

ooooo loook at this lovely piece of kit,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/X431-Ultimate-Vehicle-diagnostics-Scanner-X-431_W0QQitemZ300146202036QQihZ020QQcategoryZ30921QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQtrksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem
 i hope santa brings me one next year!

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 21 January 2008, 21:47:55

really impressive..if can handle even 1/4 th of the list , deserve much more double price..

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 January 2008, 21:50:08

Doesn't say it'll do anything other than CAN in which case it won't work on an Omega.

TBH, it probably doesn't have much more functionality than a software solution that costs 1/10th as much. You pay a lot for having it stand-alone. Handy for garage work where you don't have to faff about with Windoze and fragile laptops I guess.

I've actually been thinking of getting an ELM based code reader and I notice these guys do one. Anybody else had any experience with them? I realise it won't talk to pre-DBW cars.

Kevin

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: Doodley on 21 January 2008, 21:53:08

ah well, it looks impressive lol!

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: zippo on 21 January 2008, 22:56:26

quick question if you dont mind
d bw??????
is that drive by wire

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: hotel21 on 21 January 2008, 22:59:17

yup.

No bowden (pushbike brake cable) between accelerator pedal and throttle opening, plain electrickery.....

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: zippo on 21 January 2008, 23:09:18

ive just returned a zafira that was impossible to pull away from stand still smoothly do you think that used  DBW.

Title: Re: oooooooh
Post by: Kevin Wood on 21 January 2008, 23:25:27

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ive just returned a zafira that was impossible to pull away from stand still smoothly do you think that used  DBW.

Could well be. Obviously the consequences of such a system going bezerk are not good so they have two sensors each to measure both the throttle position and the accelerator pedal position and if any of them go out of kilter they go into a limp-home mode where it just gives you a fast idle.

Could also be a traction control system with duff wheels sensors, if it has such a thing.

Kevin