Budget OBD2 reader - recommendations??

[breamster]

Hi,

I have a cheap eBay special OBD2 reader which doesn't manage to read much. Any recommendations for something a bit better?

Budget sub £50 which I appreciate is quite tight.

If it makes a difference it will be mainly used on fords. I don't mind some Bluetooth jobby or standalone. It also needs to be able to reset error codes.

Any ideas?

[A205GTI]

Like you bought an ebay special was rubbish so got the below from amazon and to be fair it is good.

on amazon the torque-Pro-Elm-327-Bluetooth

[breamster]

A205GTI said:

Like you bought an ebay special was rubbish so got the below from amazon and to be fair it is good.

on amazon the torque-Pro-Elm-327-Bluetooth

Cheers. Ordered!

[Oscar011]

If you wanted more functions like ABS/SRS/Airbag etc.. you would need to up your budget a little. But if just needed for EML, torque pro is a useful little tool

[MajorMantra]

Out of curiosity, what were you trying to do that the ebay reader didn't do? I've had good luck with mine (it was £9 or something a couple of years ago) reading generic codes with Torque Pro. I've used it on a couple of cars and a motorbike.

It clears codes too, but I found that on my BMW you have to get the sequence right or they don't go away. (Ignition on with the clutch up to avoid starting, clear the code, ignition off.)

[breamster]

I think my old ebay jobbie was faulty in that it "worked" but returned no error codes. The new one I received today has returned the error code I expected which is (sort of) good!

I'm not trying to do anything clever with it other than engine codes. The intermittent error I am seeing relates to the immobiliser which Ford want to try a £500 part (plus labour) on the off chance it fixes it!