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Oh, it happens in real life, trust me. More often to your point a bad connection, but I ve experienced a few of these. Especially after a heavy built up of mud and or snow with some gravel in it. Car stops overnight, things seize up, freeze up and the next thing when you drive of in the morning, you have a problem. Very often misdiagnosed as a problem with the mud/snow. So they scrape of the mud/snow. Same problems persists, so they replace the sensor and whilst doing that actually fix the mounting problem because they will actually position the sensor with an appropriate gap. Very often nothing wrong with the sensor. Just has been displaced a bit and the gap has increased beyond what it can handle, In fact there are patents out there on the way the sensor get supported/mounted to prevent this from happening. Jeroen | |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Bangalore
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| ![]() LOL Living in cities, where such things are unlikely to happen, sort of gives us the divine right to be blissfully ignorant of such things, and mercifully avoid analysis paralysis! |
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| ![]() Can anyone tell me what is the difference between these two models and which one to buy? http://www.ebay.in/itm/SuperMini-ELM...3a3ef34&_uhb=1 http://www.ebay.in/itm/Android-VGate...cac88ad&_uhb=1 And also if any BHPian has a store on eBay can link me to it. Always good to support a fellow member ![]() Last edited by TheQuarterMile : 29th July 2014 at 23:24. |
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| ![]() This is a company in the United states whose product will give you a good idea about what OBD can actually do. https://www.automatic.com/ I hope they make this available in India soon. |
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Hyderabad
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Here is the answer for the second one: Find the below link to a BHPian's store and the item. http://m.ebay.in/itm?itemId=161165289900 Anurag. | |
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BHPian Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Faridabad
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Senior - BHPian Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Hyderabad
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Senior - BHPian | ![]() A friend of mine has 2008 Indica Petrol - its a preowned. His car was overheating - the heating indicator gauge was about to break beyond max ![]() I thought of helping him but need to know if the ELM 327 mini adaptor will work on his car? I have the adapter and works very well on my SX4. Not sure about if that will be compatible with his car or even his car is OBD II compliant! Does anyone know top of their head if its worth calling him to my home and giving it a shot? ![]() Actually, if someone has tried earlier on same model vehicle and know it doesn't work, I will avoid trying the ELM tool. |
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However, I have no idea if the ELM 327 mini adaptor will work or not, as I have not used it. Last edited by RSR : 3rd August 2014 at 01:46. | |
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Senior - BHPian | ![]() Thanks RSR! I just tried the mini ELM adapter and it worked! As you said the port was under the passenger seat. The fault code was decoded to be faulty sensors for radiator temperature. There was another code too - P0000. But no details. Upon lookup I did not find anything on it. So I assume it was because of the earlier code may be. Could that be? Since I think the problem is sighted, next course of action suggested is to visit Bosch or similar reliable service center and get the sensors inspected, checked or replaced as needed. I was tempting to clear the error codes and try through fun2drive app again. But then thought of not fiddling with it myself but a competent mechanic! Thanks for the help! |
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Senior - BHPian ![]() Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Chennai
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According to this site, P0000 stands for "No trouble code": http://www.outilsobdfacile.com/data-...-code-obd2.php There is absolutely no harm in clearing the error code(s), after noting it/them down. If the fault persists, the check engine light would most certainly glow again, and the same error code(s) would show up on diagnosis. On the other hand, if the code was set because of the heating problem, and if this was sorted out successfully, the check engine light would not glow again, but only if everything is working fine. In any case, I think the check engine light should stop glowing if the fault doesn't re-occur. So I believe the appropriate sensors do need to be inspected. Last edited by RSR : 3rd August 2014 at 08:03. | |
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