Archive for April, 2011
A Car Service Today Ensures A Safer Tomorrow
When your car breaks down you don’t want to take it to just anyone to be fixed. Car repairs can be quite costly, even more so when the mechanic does a poor job and you have to take it to another company to be serviced. You want a company that you can trust, who sources reliable, quality parts for your car, and if it doesn’t cost the earth, well that’s even better.
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On-Board Diagnostics Version 2 Scanner
Safety and convenience are now the main features of contemporary technologies, most especially in the automotive industry. Cars today feature a lot of devices which serves to increase the safety of its passengers and at the same time maintain convenience; examples of such devices are seatbelts, airbags, and shatter-proof windshields. With the advances in modern technology however there are now more complex safety and maintenance devices, one of which is the On-Board Diagnostics feature or OBD. OBD Systems have been installed on almost all U.S.-made/produced cars since 1996; this feature is now available and has been standardized by virtue of Federal Law. This feature has been mandated to be built into cars and must be within easy reach of the driver of the vehicle; most OBD systems are accessible via a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port usually in the area near the dashboard, commonly under it. The OBD system is connected to the “engine computer” or Engine Control Module (ECM) which monitors things like engine temperature, tire pressure, fuel-air mix ratio and the like.
The OBD system has undergone a transformation in order to better increase its performance, and thus the OBD II or On-Board Diagnostics II was created. The OBD II however is useless without a scanner tool. The OBD II Scanner is a device which is used as an attachment to the OBD II feature of all industry standard vehicles. OBD II scan tools are of varied shapes and sizes and types, there are stand-alone and PC-based OBD II scanners. Stand-alone OBD II Scanners and chilton auto repair manual, as the name suggest, are capable of operating with or without the use of PC’s; these scanners usually have a small screen with minimalistic display features and only run the needed software to read, analyze, and diagnose the data from the OBD II interface. These stand-alone OBD II scanners cost more in terms of price and maintenance as opposed to PC-based software tools, not only that these scanners are of limited functionality since given size and other constraints it can only the proprietary software. PC-based OBD II scanners can have a wide variety of features and can harness the power available in PC’s so as to provide a more comprehensive assessment of the vehicle’s current conditions.
Tags: advances in modern technology, board diagnostics, engine control module ecm, maintenance devices, obd ii interface, obd ii scanner, obd ii scanners, obd system, pc based software, universal serial busRelated posts