Electronc Gizmo's

[bugsy]

Took the S in Saturday to check out the shocks and
one of my mechanics customers didn't turn up, so he
produced one of these ECU testers and found a socket
next to the Ecu and plugged it in and ran through a test sequence, apparantly quite a few of the sensors
would register faults on the Ecu if they were duff.
Thought I would post this as the test only took a few
minutes and in some cases might show up faults and therefore save wasting money on replacing ok components.

[KentishS2]

I'm told that halfrauds sell a tester that plugs in this diagnostic port, has anyone bought one and is it any good?

[oatz]

now I'm interested! come on someone...

[bugsy]

I have heard that Gunsen (or somthing like that)
make a tester very similar to the one my mechanic
used, I think they are about £60, whether they do
everything the one we used does, would have to be checked

[trevytrev]

I have got one for my S3, cost about £15 from halfords. I bought it when my car was ticking over at rather high revs and it told me that the throttle pot was faulty (should have guessed that really !!).

If I remember correctly there are two types and you need the one which has a three pin connector. They do also have more expensive testers which support different cars.

Trev.

[tvrgit]

I bought the expensive gunson one years ago when I had my granada (same engine and ecu), and it worked fine in that...

I've tried it with the S and couldn't get a reading at all - but that might be cause my tester's old and knacked... I might try one of the £15 gunson ones from halfords, as suggested above...