On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:32 -0500, PicDude wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:15, Herbert Graf wrote:
> > ...
> > Elsewhere is a different story, as the article you mentioned indicates.
> > It says that all diesel vehicles after 2004 in the EU must be OBDII, yet
> > the 2006 Skoda Fabia diesel I rented last month in Austria certainly
> > didn't have the OBDII connector (it had a connector, but looked
> > different). Does anyone know if perhaps in the EU OBDII is required now,
> > but the connector is still non standard? Or is it just the EU connector
> > standard is different from North America?
> >
> > Thanks, TTYL
> 
> IIRC there are 3 protocol standards, all called OBD2, and I suspect they will 
> come with different connectors -- there's OBD2 ISO, OBD2 VPW, and OBD2 ??? 
> (the name of this last one escapes me right now, but stick around for a 
> Eureka moment).

Actually there are four, CAN is the latest. The connector is identical
across all protocols in north america. Readers use a form of
autodetection to determine which protocol a particular car uses. ISO is
the most common for non domestics, GM has it's own and Ford has it's
own.

My code reader is capable of the first three. CAN, being newer, is
available on most code readers, but adds a little to the cost (the code
reader I bought would have been $50 more if I got the version that
supported CAN).

I believe that by a certain year (2008 or something) all cars in North
America will have to use CAN.

TTYL

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