best value in obd2 to pc cables/software

[browntown]

I'd like to pull codes on the newer vehicles in the home fleet and play with the laptop to see all the data the obd2 spits out. I've seen that some even have realtime dashboards that you can put stuff like coolant temp and oil pressure on your laptop. I love that idea, since I'm not putting an a-pillar pod in my wife's cr-v to monitor her oil pressure. I hate going to autozone to rent their little scanner everytime I throw a code. There are software packages that are hundreds of dollars and cables from ebay for hardly anything.

Is there a package that is widely used and freeware that the kids in the tuning scene use?

I found obd2crazy and scantool.net as well as some smaller operations. I figured there had to be a sourceforge freeware somewhere... Maybe? What are the cool fast and furious kids using?

[browntown]

nobody has any experience in this? nology laptop dyno is crazy expensive.

[nando]

Definitely a generic bmw edbias cable and bmw software (see bimmerforums).

Or if you just want a display, an android tablet and an app. "torque" does a lot of that stuff.

[browntown]

actually I was looking for my saab. I know ecuproject has lots of xdf's for tunerpro, which seems to be the standard freeware for this kind of thing. But if I understand it right that software is directly wired to the ecu and allows full on reprogramming of the computer where I mainly want to read codes from the obd2 port. I'm probably confusing things

[nando]

Yeah, torque will do that.

[browntown]

Thanks I'm going through their wiki to determine what ebay adapter is best for torque to run. Thanks for the referral.