News — OBD2

As a car owner, there’s nothing worse than a warning light appearing on your dashboard. Not only is it irritating, but it leaves you wondering whether or not you’re about to break down. If you find yourself in this position, you have three options; 1) Ignore it (not the best idea) 2) take it to the garage (a costly approach) or 3) invest in an iCarsoft CR PRO. What is an OBD2 scanner ? Well, it’s a nifty little device that allows you to get to the bottom of exactly what’s wrong with your car when those annoying dashboard lights come on....

At LJM Car Diagnostics, we regularly produce blogs just like this one to ensure that our customers get to understand what OBD  scanners offer and the huge savings that can be made. A good quality OB2  vehicle scanner can literally save you hundreds of pounds on garage diagnostic costs, so they’re worth their weight in gold to car owners. In this article, we look at the Veepeak OBD check BLE which is a nifty little gizmo that lets you diagnose what’s wrong with your vehicle by interpreting the fault codes that the ECU throws up. With one of these beauties...

What Exactly Are OBD Ports & What Are They For? There’s no doubt that cars have become much more complicated in recent years, and it would be true to say that the days when you could maintain your car with nothing more than a bit of mechanical knowledge and a toolkit are gone. Modern cars have multiple computers (ECUs) on board and the data that they contain can be used to help us determine their overall state of health using an OBD scanner tool . Readers like the Veepeak BLE OBD2 or the Nexas Nexlink bluetooth OBD scanner, can be easily...