Cadillac Owners Forum banner
  • BEWARE OF SCAMMERS. Anyone trying to get your money should be checked out BEFORE you send anything anywhere.

Recommendations for a GM friendly EOBDII Scanner (Engine, Trans, ABS, Live data etc

10K views 10 replies 7 participants last post by  Mandrake  
#1 ·
So I got the stupid service brake assist (+ breaklight) and don't want to throw money at the problem or bring it to the dealer. I figure this may be my excuse to BBS (buy a better scanner). I also have a '14 Jetta Sportwagen so having somethign that will work with this would be nice also.
 
Discussion starter · #10 ·
Thats funny, I didn't know spam bots could own a car.
Did some research on BlueDriver, Torque Auerforce. Here are my thoughts


BlueDriver: Very useful ODBII, EODB and live data (if you don't know what these are then you don't belong in this thread) This appears to be focused on GM vehicles and provides access to much ECM and BDM data (ie trans, ABS, Engine, Trim, Codes and Programming)

Torque: This is designed for the tuner crowd, includes useless gps related calculations to determine acceleration and thus HP. However no lives data or EODB. So no fuel trim, no BDM codes no programming.

Aeroforce: Is also very useful, but I agree why pay for the computing power when you can simple use a blue tooth dongle then have the smartphone do the work. I would say the days of the cable all in one interface is going away.

My point is I want something that will support as many cars across the board. I love the old CTS but will probably pass it on in a year or so. My existing ODB II scanner I paid $50 at autozone and it does the same as a $8 scanner now a days.