OBD-II (On Board Diagnostics) on Aussie cars

[jampac]

It wouldn't surprise me forg. With the amount of error codes it spits out, 4 digit code and also old 2 digit OBD I codes, there is easily enough to do it.

[tinkerbell]

No, I do believe they were pompous self righteous arseholes who were into Honda’s and other FWD stickered up shitters...

maybe that could explain why you think this OBD stuff is *new* and exciting?

Forg - yes, if you get your car registered in Cali, it gets scaned for codes and if there are any, you cannot get registered without rectifying them... the car is then dyno'd and emission checked, if you fail, you have to get it re-tested until it passes...

so in that sense, you are 'required' to repair your car to get it registered, just like our *strict* Pink Slip system in NSW...

[Captiva Fan]

Aye; however, fixing pollution gear tends to be a tad more exxy than replacing a brake rotor, and it kinda hurts to pay out that money when you're such an irrelevant part of the pollution problem. I can sort-of see where they're going with stricter pollution rules, older cars have to get off the road eventually, but things still don't quite seem right when a 2500kg BB Terrortory putting out 5 times the CO2 of an Alfa 105-series GTV needs to be 'repaired' & all they 'repair' is the amount of CO it puts out (and it costs a bundle to get repaired too).

[tinkerbell]

could also be like Japan, then?

with "Shaken" registration requirements...

~5 years = the car is too old to register without excessive cost...

however, it would be hard to justify this system in isolation of other car markets - as what would you do with all the older perfectly fine cars...

you are right about the cost/benefit of fixing pollution gear, some of which may have only ever been token in it's purpose anyways...

[Ustasa]

maybe that could explain why you think this OBD stuff is *new* and exciting?

Forg - yes, if you get your car registered in Cali, it gets scaned for codes and if there are any, you cannot get registered without rectifying them... the car is then dyno'd and emission checked, if you fail, you have to get it re-tested until it passes...

so in that sense, you are 'required' to repair your car to get it registered, just like our *strict* Pink Slip system in NSW...

No.

We all know that it isn’t new and exciting stuff. However why two automotive executive types thought it was new and exciting had me perplexed.

I still think there is more to the story then I caught on and I wouldn’t dismiss it with the same cavalier attitude you had in the rta thread either…

[rj-astra]

Even my lowly 2001 Astra has OBD2 IN fact I would be surprised if the ecotec V6/Alloytec v6 and the LS1/2 aren't OBD2 compliant as well as they are setup for the US market.

You can get so interesting aftermarket analytical gear to use with your OBD2 port.

I think the implementation of OBD 2 on the falcon would be more a side product of making the 4L I6 engine comply with upcoming changes to emission laws.