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Post Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:46 pm

http://www.peakeresearch.com/code_tool.htm
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Post Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:24 pm

Waste of money for an E30.
You could get it to reset the service lights, but a short length of wire does the job without the hefty price tag.
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Post Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:59 pm

I bought one of these off ebay for a £5er

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Post Wed Jan 07, 2015 10:48 pm

So do I take it you cant get any fault codes out of an m20.
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Post Thu Jan 08, 2015 5:30 am

You CAN get fault codes out of a Motronic 1.3 ECU (so any M20 from sept 1987 onwards), but it's very limited information and certainly not worth paying $150 to find out.

US cars used the Check Engine light to display the following codes during the Stomp Test:

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/inde ... ault_Codes
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