recomended OBD software?

[rich48848]

Any recommendations for OBD software, ideally Windows and ideally free!

I recently tried ForScan (Yes there is no D) for my Focus and it's pretty good at giving decent data on fault codes.


Cheers.

 

[Marius]

Bmw software is free, just buy cable that cost £20 and it will come with it. Best want you can get.

 

[rich48848]

Bmw software is free, just buy cable that cost £20 and it will come with it. Best want you can get.

I already have an OBD-II cable. Where can I download the software?

 

[rich48848]

So googling turned up the INPA software. I tried a few places to download this but links are either dead or dodgy. Anyone know where it's available from that's safe?

 

[Marius]

You can get latest on Russian forums, just search on google.ru, also vag obd cable not gonna work on bmw.

 

[Chris_D]

You can get latest on Russian forums, just search on google.ru, also vag obd cable not gonna work on bmw.

In the current climate of russian-sourced hacking, that's quite possibly the most inappropriate and dangerous piece of advice you could possibly give!
OP; if you're new to using PC-based software I would avoid this route at all costs. All of the OBD dongles and cables I have purchased recently have come with their own softtware, and on scanning all have had some form of keylogger, trojan, rootkit embedded.
Even the allegedly 'straight' PAsoft 'BMW Scanner' software I got hold of recently had been recoded with a trojan embedded.
I would suggest that if you don't know your way around virus scanners, rootkit scanners etc to avoid at all costs trying to get hold of software unless purchased via a legitimate seller.
I finally decided on Carly as I managed to get hold of a dongle from forum member Garry quite cheap. If it's worth anything to you to know it's a very competent diagnostics scanner and is also capable of coding as well as live parameter monitoring.

 

[ben g]

Buy the cable and software from bcables.com

 

[ben g]

You can get latest on Russian forums, just search on google.ru, also vag obd cable not gonna work on bmw.

In the current climate of russian-sourced hacking, that's quite possibly the most inappropriate and dangerous piece of advice you could possibly give!
OP; if you're new to using PC-based software I would avoid this route at all costs. All of the OBD dongles and cables I have purchased recently have come with their own softtware, and on scanning all have had some form of keylogger, trojan, rootkit embedded.
Even the allegedly 'straight' PAsoft 'BMW Scanner' software I got hold of recently had been recoded with a trojan embedded.
I would suggest that if you don't know your way around virus scanners, rootkit scanners etc to avoid at all costs trying to get hold of software unless purchased via a legitimate seller.
I finally decided on Carly as I managed to get hold of a dongle from forum member Garry quite cheap. If it's worth anything to you to know it's a very competent diagnostics scanner and is also capable of coding as well as live parameter monitoring.

 

[Chris_D]

You can get latest on Russian forums, just search on google.ru, also vag obd cable not gonna work on bmw.

In the current climate of russian-sourced hacking, that's quite possibly the most inappropriate and dangerous piece of advice you could possibly give!
OP; if you're new to using PC-based software I would avoid this route at all costs. All of the OBD dongles and cables I have purchased recently have come with their own softtware, and on scanning all have had some form of keylogger, trojan, rootkit embedded.
Even the allegedly 'straight' PAsoft 'BMW Scanner' software I got hold of recently had been recoded with a trojan embedded.
I would suggest that if you don't know your way around virus scanners, rootkit scanners etc to avoid at all costs trying to get hold of software unless purchased via a legitimate seller.
I finally decided on Carly as I managed to get hold of a dongle from forum member Garry quite cheap. If it's worth anything to you to know it's a very competent diagnostics scanner and is also capable of coding as well as live parameter monitoring.

 

[Marius]

You can get latest on Russian forums, just search on google.ru, also vag obd cable not gonna work on bmw.

In the current climate of russian-sourced hacking, that's quite possibly the most inappropriate and dangerous piece of advice you could possibly give!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[rich48848]

Well my anti-virus went nuts when I tried a download from one russian site, I decided to see if anyone had a 'clean' copy!

(I wasn't wearing my tinfoil hat at the time though, but I did have my chicken wire cardigan on...)