ELM327 Which one?

[DieselBob]

Looking at a ELM327 cable.
Lots of hits from chinese sites.
Last time i looked mostly SCANTOOL, lot of busy people...
Wondering if theres a better one to get?
Going to look at LS1 controllers, maybe attempt a flash depending how the confidence goes

[TTVN]

i have an elm327 in silver box it logs but i dont think you can flash with them

[DieselBob]

I've read a few posts around the place there was a couple of guys working on a way to use an ELM 327 to read/write to a flash ECM.
They seemed to think the chip had a read/write capability that wasn't being used.

Other than that I've had a look at EFILive and TPTuners.
Like most other people I'm looking for an option that doesn't need a license for every VIN thats flashed.
Any ideas suggestions???

Probably going to get an ELM327 cable anyway just wondering if the ones on EBay were reliable??

[Jayme]

Tunercats/Jetsdt are one time buy and no license per car, tho tunercats is no longer being sold to new customers, its all jetdst now.

[antus]

Jet DST is licensed per car - I think you get a 3 car license when you purchase the product.

Tunercat is the go for unlimited. It can still be purchased via moates with a roadrunner pcm package. Its a reasonably old app but it is still supported.
http://www.moates.net/roadrunner-ls1-re ... l?cPath=95

Elm is just an interface, you still need software to do the writing. And while that is possible, it does not yet exist.

Also, elms are based around a 5 mhz pic chip. While it can talk to the vehicle bus Its rather limited in what it can do compared to the more expensive cables.

[uknomeprk]

I got a obdallinone from http://www.webpg.net/ but id look into scantool http://www.scantool.net/scan-tools/pc-based/ mainly because they offer updates for their interface. That includes extra features that a normal ELM doesn't have through "AT" commands.

[DieselBob]

Thanks guys
Had a look at the suggestions...
The scantool setup has grown since the last time i looked, looked at the All_In_One before too...
Think i might go with the scantool option..

On the reflash - still looking......
Got a couple of things to look at.

[brenyw]

I got a cheapy bluetooth from ebay (blue colored) works a treat and less than $50 also free software is at http://www.outilsobdfacile.com/ this is a French site, very comprehensive.
ELM327 can write, that's how you clear error codes.

[antus]

Write is limited to packets of 8 bytes max. So to save confusion - it can request data and clear error codes, but it cant flash because 8 bytes is too short to get the process started.