I was looking at the Meter display in Sears the other day checking out their Fluke stuff and this little “Drive Right Car Chip” thing caught my eye. It could be bought for just under $100. I was interested in it for diagnostics purposes but when I looked it up on the net was astounded at the “Big Brother capabilities”.
Does anyone know what information is really stored in the basic ODBII computer system, even if you don’t have one these tattletale chips plugged in?
Here is some things the turned up on a search but I am not real sure about the creditability of some of the comments in the last one, truth or fiction?
Kind of scary for an old guy like me who resents all the intrusion in our lives these days with regulation on everything: but then you have to remember that when I started R12 was about 50 cents a pound and we purged with it and cleaned systems with R11 so I am a dinosaur trying to adjust.
http://www.davisnet.com/drive/products/carchip_products.asp
http://www.troublecodes.net/articles/carchip/
http://www.atsnn.com/story/129474.html
Does anyone know what information is really stored in the basic ODBII computer system, even if you don’t have one these tattletale chips plugged in?
Here is some things the turned up on a search but I am not real sure about the creditability of some of the comments in the last one, truth or fiction?
Kind of scary for an old guy like me who resents all the intrusion in our lives these days with regulation on everything: but then you have to remember that when I started R12 was about 50 cents a pound and we purged with it and cleaned systems with R11 so I am a dinosaur trying to adjust.
http://www.davisnet.com/drive/products/carchip_products.asp
http://www.troublecodes.net/articles/carchip/
http://www.atsnn.com/story/129474.html
Roy
