[OT] [NTLUG:Discuss] Hacking your car (was "C pretty....")

[Jonathan Miller]

they actually do sell things that will allow you to "read out error
codes." All that they do is count pulses. I had to trouble shoot a car I
owned once and I connected an average every day LED to the proper pins on
the little connector, fired the car up counted the pulses looked up the
code in the reference manual.

--
Jonathan                                     "Thinking corrupts the mind."


On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Steve Baker wrote:

> Come to think of it, the "Check Engine" light on my minivan isn't too
> far
> from that!  Going to the Pontiac dealer to "read out the error codes"
> isn't that different from core dump analysis with gdb.  They need to
> open-source that sucker so I can save the $60 they charge to do it!