Can't use OBD Port

wstar · 04-17-2013, 09:20 PM

It's because of where you bought your car. The ones sold in the US are required to support one of a certain set of standard OBD-II protocols (mostly because that's necessary for emissions testing). The 370's sold in other countries don't always do so. I know we've had examples here in the past of 370's from the middle east and/or japan that didn't speak the "normal" US OBD-II protocols. Some devices can talk to them, some can't, depends on the devices' support for strange/abnormal protocols (from the normal US point of view).

Sorry I don't have a ton of detail on the subject. What was the country of origin? Was it imported as a one-off to Singapore from elsewhere?

04-17-2013, 09:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
wstar A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,024 Drives: too slow Rep Power: 3596	It's because of where you bought your car. The ones sold in the US are required to support one of a certain set of standard OBD-II protocols (mostly because that's necessary for emissions testing). The 370's sold in other countries don't always do so. I know we've had examples here in the past of 370's from the middle east and/or japan that didn't speak the "normal" US OBD-II protocols. Some devices can talk to them, some can't, depends on the devices' support for strange/abnormal protocols (from the normal US point of view). Sorry I don't have a ton of detail on the subject. What was the country of origin? Was it imported as a one-off to Singapore from elsewhere? __________________ 7AT Track Car! Journal thread / Car setup details

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