E30 Zone

E30's have OBD plugs can anyone suggest a diagnostic tool to use with these? I can see all these obd2 Bluetooth connectors but I have a few questions please of anyone can help that'd be appreciated

1 best diagnostic tool use?
2 thoughts on Bluetooth obd2 connectors
3 will a obd2 fit and be usable and to what degree?

Cheers

Answers

1, For the E30...None. (Apart from a paper clip to reset the service lights)
2, Bluetooth ODB readers are great, ive got one for the Alfa, But of no use for the E30.
3, No, No & None...

The "OBD" socket on an E30 is used for two things: resetting the service lights, and cranking the motor from the engine bay. That's it. No electronic jiggery-pokery, plug-in readers or diagnostic gimmickry will tell you a single thing about your E30 through the diagnostic plug.

Get a multimeter, and learn how to use it.

There is no OBD port or OBDII port, there is only a service port.

As Grrrmachine (enough rs?) says, multimeter is the diag tool of choice on these old cars.

kam-325i wrote:Answers

1, For the E30...None. (Apart from a paper clip to reset the service lights)
2, Bluetooth ODB readers are great, ive got one for the Alfa, But of no use for the E30.
3, No, No & None...

Thanks for the advice from everyone obviously I'm putting in far too many hours on the car and not enough sleep! Eyes are playing tricks on me, as I could have sworn to have seen a obd plug.

Kam what obd reader do you have and where did you purchase?

BowwssBmwE30 wrote: as I could have sworn to have seen a obd plug.

Not on an E30. The round plug in the engine bay is as Grrrmachine says, just a service port, ODB was not implemented on the E30.

This is the type i have for the Alfa Romeo
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Any-Car-Andro ... 3f283f31f7

actually depending on ecu the e30 can store basic fault codes, that said they are not of much help and its not worth buying anything specifically to read them.

Sorry to hijack thread.....

Will the round plug on m52 work with the obd bluetooth kit?