Anyone use it? It can read various engine PID's through an Android app called Torque. You have to use an ELM327 OBD2 adapter which you buy cheap on Ebay/Amazon. Amazing how far technology has come with these new phones.
Torque app with OBD2 adapter
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zmt325
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I have it and I just use it to diag obd2 stuff. I have found that it doesn't like some fords
McMkVIII94
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I have a cheap OBD-II bluetooth adapter from Amazon (~$28 IIRC) and the paid (~$5) version of Torque on an original Droid 1 phone...
The combo works fine on my wife's '99 Toyota Avalon, my '03 Chevy Astro van, and my son's '00 Ranger XLT.
Sometimes, Torque will put a grayed-out message at the bottom of the display saying "Faulty OBD-II adapter", and the older versions of the app would sometimes randomly lose connectivity, but the latest version has not lost BT connection even once. I put all the vehicle's weight, displacement, etc. in separate profiles, snap the Droid into a windshield mount and can watch MPG and other parameters as I drive... cool. Plus, there are many, many features that racers and performance buffs could use that I have never even tried.
Over the last two years I've tried literally 100's of apps, but Torque is the most awesome app EVAR!... just amazing to me the things it can do, the interface flexibility, the technology that went into it, etc, etc.
The combo works fine on my wife's '99 Toyota Avalon, my '03 Chevy Astro van, and my son's '00 Ranger XLT.
Sometimes, Torque will put a grayed-out message at the bottom of the display saying "Faulty OBD-II adapter", and the older versions of the app would sometimes randomly lose connectivity, but the latest version has not lost BT connection even once. I put all the vehicle's weight, displacement, etc. in separate profiles, snap the Droid into a windshield mount and can watch MPG and other parameters as I drive... cool. Plus, there are many, many features that racers and performance buffs could use that I have never even tried.
Over the last two years I've tried literally 100's of apps, but Torque is the most awesome app EVAR!... just amazing to me the things it can do, the interface flexibility, the technology that went into it, etc, etc.