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Offline drc12369

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Torque app odb2 compatible?
« on: 14 January 2013, 12:27 »
Been told theres a phone app called Torque which is £3 and it uses odb2, the bluetooth adaptors about £15 off ebay and it supposedly gives you everything and more a vag.com would do. Firstly is my 97 8v gti odb2 compatible? And if so anybody got any experience with this app?
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #1 on: 14 January 2013, 13:26 »
Your car is obd2

That's all I know x
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #2 on: 14 January 2013, 17:28 »
no don't work....

our mk3 only have obd2 socket, however are not obd2..... protocols are different

obd2 readers for torque don't support the required protocol.

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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #3 on: 14 January 2013, 22:43 »
I tried my Scangauge on my '96 TDI... It didn't work  :sad:

On the Scangauge website it says it will work with all TDI models except those with "black ecu" (what ever that means?!)

As far as I know OBDII wasn't standardised until around 2001 on petrol cars.
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #4 on: 14 January 2013, 23:01 »
Quote from: benjy_b on 14 January 2013, 22:43

As far as I know OBDII wasn't standardised until around 2001 on petrol cars.

obd2 came law in 1996 for usa sold vehicles and euro 2 euro emission reg's in the same year, early systems were more limited.

1999 seems to be the big change year (for example you can flash remap vw's from mid 99)
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Offline drc12369

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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #5 on: 15 January 2013, 05:29 »
Bugger  :sad:
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #6 on: 16 January 2013, 22:14 »
Im glad ive seen this before i ordered a Bluetooth adapter  for the Torque app i downloaded last week.  :lipsrsealed:
« Last Edit: 16 January 2013, 23:06 by thai-wronghorse »
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #7 on: 16 January 2013, 23:05 »
was thinking about ordering one myself, glad I seen this  :smiley:
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #8 on: 19 January 2013, 13:20 »
Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 16 January 2013, 22:14
Im glad ive seen this before i ordered a Bluetooth adapter  for the Torque app i downloaded last week.  :lipsrsealed:
I thought the petrol went to OBDII in '96 but the "ebay" bluetooth adapter didn't work on my '98.

A shame - I was looking forward to using it...  :sad:
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Re: Torque app odb2 compatible?
« Reply #9 on: 19 January 2013, 14:37 »
As I said above OBD2 shaped socket only on mk3 not actual OBD2, the protocol behind is still the same as it was on the OBD1 2x2 port.
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