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

[al_h@technologist.com]

Jonathan Miller wrote:

> 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!
>
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You can also use a volt meter(preferably analog) to do the same