Following a CEL this morning there is no way I am giving main dealer £53 just to read the code, thankfully found a tuner near me that only charges £10 but i have decided to get one myself, a quick search on google sees them ranging from £17 upwards, the one in Halfords is £139 but they cannot let me know how much my trade card will knock off until i go in.

All i want to do is read it and reset it and found these:

http://www.ecrater.co.uk/p/10186975/...ner-obd2-obdii

http://www.carparts-sale.com/u480-ca...anne-p-75.html

Any good? What do you all have?

 

I got one from ebay, cost £20 and has worked fine the couple of times i have used it.

Identifies the codes and erased them.

I had a few come up from an oil change when the crank sensor was disconnected, and i also get one from having the cats removed.

 

If you have a Laptop, I would go with a Tactrix type cable and use Learning to view free software, will cost you around £10.

 

I got one of these eventually.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Autel-MS50...item19c65937a4

Think I got mine from fleabay for £45 though.

Bought one from Argos for £80 prior to this that worked a treat. Benefit of the Autel unit is it can log live data as well.

 

thanks for all the replies, good to see the general concensus is you can use these and you dont need to spend £100s on one. I do think in terms of the correct term the CEL should be renamed the UhOh light

 

The Cell is a pain in the **** as it never flashes up to say "Hi" or "Wow", it is a very pessimistic little ******, but if it wasnt for this you would likely be looking at £1'000s in engine builds, so got to respect it!

 

I have a scanguage II and its always connected and sat on my dash, works great.

 

I agree, this way you can actually read what certain sensors are doing before you spend your hard earned.

 

I keep my CEL reader in the glove box now. lol

 

nightmare, got it checked as P0031 02 sensor bank 1, reset it but just came back, went to look at prices...............how much lol £180 plus. There must be cheaper ones out there or the Long Haired General is gonna have my spuds off

 

Is yours a newage? I think thats the o2 sensor accessed throught the wheel arch.. if so you can definitely get them less than that

i did.

brb searching for the link

 

many thanks Jonny its a 2003 Blob WRX

 

i had a link in my favourite but it seems to be dead.. ill see what i can find mate
mine is 2003 sti and i definitely didnt pay £180

 

http://www.gendan.co.uk/oxygen_lambd...reza_2.0i.html £120 here..

 

Sweet thanks mate, that seems to be the cheapest Denso one i have seen, found this guide as well, very informative for future use

http://www.scoobymods.com/diy-o2-sen...t-t12146.html?

 

Why not just get intouch with a breaker?

 

looking at breakers now as i wont discount every avenue until i have explored them ;-)

 

Try these mate, you should be able to haggle on price too :
ScoobySpares (Andy or Scott)
Poleposition (Matt)
Grade A Subaru

 

I can recommend the ELM 327 based bluetooth code reader and android app called Torque. Allows codes to be read and reset as well as live ECU data all on a android smartphone - very impressive and can be left in the car as its only a tiny device.

Bluetooth device is about £20 and app is about £3

 

sounds cool, where did you buy it from, being a bit of a phone noob would it work with a nokia n8?

 

You can buy them on ebay HERE

Im new to smartphones myself to be honest, if your Nokia is an android phone with bluetooth then I am pretty sure it will work. See if the app "Torque" is available, there is a free version so you can make sure it installs on your phone. The fully function version is only a couple of quid so worth buying if all is OK.

Im sure you will be as impressed as I was for a total spend of just over £20

 

found this as well for future ref if anyone is struggling to find one

http://www.sparkplugs.co.uk/pages/pr...ensors-ccp.asp