On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:55 -0700, Vitaliy 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?
> 
> Have you checked everywhere -- under the driver's seat, behind the ashtray, 
> etc? Some vehicles have two connectors: one proprietary, and one OBDII. The 
> EU connector standard is identical to the US standard: it's the same 
> D-shaped 16-pin connector.

Well, I'm now 6000kms away from the rental agency, so my checking time
has passed. That said, I was very thorough and could not find any other
connector. In fact the connector I DID find was hidden behind a storage
box, it took a while to find.

It's entirely possible I missed the "standard" connector. TTYL

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