Welcome back to Exotic Car Play Place everybody thanks for joining in and I
hope you saw the vlog earlier this week that's why today's video is produced on
behalf of the OBD tuners now I'm gonna discuss this today because as you can
see I've got this great little 2009 x5 35 D diesel and I want to show you how
you at home you guys could personally troubleshoot
some of these problems and give you the power to question the dealers or
possibly make that repair yourself so I'm gonna explain a few of the things
what obd is and how you can get started
welcome back to the channel I'm your buddy mark with exotic car play place
and today in short OBD is it's a communication protocol it's a
standardization if you will of onboard diagnostic codes that help you
troubleshoot problem areas with your car when your car decides to fail it sort of
stops working properly it's optimization isn't totally there
and therefore the system tells you something that either a sensor is wrong
or there's a loop that's not working properly or some faulty devices in place
something's not working as a hundred percent specified so the dealers the
manufacturers found it necessary to standardize so it made it easier for
services and service industries to be able to troubleshoot and maintain sort
of that common language if you will between different car brands and you
know from year to year it allowed you to make sure that you had the same
consistent discussions of problem areas now obd2 obd it was there was several
different variations of communication protocols over the years and back in
1996 obd2 was finally basically settled on as the agreed-upon protocol that just
seemed to work the best had most of the bases covered now unfortunately a lot of
these complicated vehicles like the BMWs like me behind me here have
unfortunately a lot of extra you know complexities in there that even obd does
not necessarily recognize so even to use a standardized obd tuner or code reader
you will find yourself not necessarily having all of the information but it's a
great start I'll get started here now here is the x5 diesel the other day this
thing spit out a code and I walked you through it really quickly how to
actually get into this I showed you quickly my tuner or my code reader but
unfortunately I know I kind of glazed over it very quickly so I will share
with you guys obd2 and how you access the
on any vehicle from 1996 and newer so first of all we look at the cockpit of a
car most vehicles are pretty pretty much the same and this is you know obviously
BMW almost all standardized exactly so you're not gonna find these plug-in
ports all over in different places that's fairly standardized - and it's
typically under the dashboard and in the BMW world
it's definitely always under the footwell of the driver and even more
specifically it's under this area right here so if you go down under here you'll
notice but this is right next to the handle of course this is your hood
release but look straight above it and you have this little plug well BMW of
course they like to keep it clean and tidy so what we do is we pull this plug
out and now you have access to the actual plug in the port itself right
there that's the port that's the obd2 port now again let's back this up
backing this up that of course is there's your foot well there's your hood
release and there's the cork for your OBD port so I'm going to show you what I
use so there's three major ways to tie into that obd2 port it's very easy for
the do-it-yourselfer out there like you guys to access that obd2 port now
there's three ways one of which is more or less your portable scan tool like
this you can get these pretty cheap nowadays pretty generic this is the one
I use it's called a can obd2 if you look up close can obd2 and I use this because
it's simple and it's cheap and so far it hasn't really led me to astray, now
remember like I said this is pretty generic so it won't give you everything
in terms of the BMW faults and I would say in this case it did not give me
everything I needed what it did do though however was it gave me a code a
number that I was able to reference online traced it and told me exactly
what the issue was now this of course is one way
now they have these new systems that you're able to tie in with
your cell phone it's called mobile connection and of course they have
systems and I'm actually going to probably purchase one because I like its
flexibility and that is the Carly for example is one example that's one brand
that a lot of you guys have probably heard from heard about in the BMW world
Carly and that is a great little way to interface with your cell phone or
your iPad or your other mobile device anything that's Android or more iOS you
can connect up to that Carly you just have to order the right adapter and and
you're good to go now you can Bluetooth that in the beauty with the Carly
equipment is that you're able to dial in you can pull codes you can reset codes
but you can also recode some of the electronics in your system so in other
words you can have some fun with that too you can actually change you know
different locking sequences you can change your folding mirrors you can do a
bunch of different things your light flashing and the headlights you can do
all kinds of creative little code adjustments in your in your system so
you can like I said you can have some fun with it but you can also use it for
reading issues of diagnostic concerns and of course the third being PC
connected now typically the professionals are going to likely use
something that's more of a PC based unit and it'll have a lot more powerful
features to it a lot more troubleshooting capabilities as well
so that's another option usually out of the hands for the do-it-yourselfer by
the time you invest in a lot of that equipment you might as well just take it
to the dealer and be done with it so let's go in and what I'm gonna do I'll
show you quickly how this works so I've got my reader which I already showed you
and it's connected this is typically turned off but it comes on automatically
so you want to connect it up to a vehicle that's offline so what I'm going
to do now is take my reader I'll take my reader connector here and I'm going to
connect it up underneath so I'm gonna connect this up
now it's connected in there so now that it's connected I'm going to put the foot
on the brake I'm going to start the car
and what we're gonna do is we're gonna wait for this thing to see what it comes
up with maybe it's just a waiting game so initially it says unable but it'll do
a recycle and a lot of these are pretty straightforward you plug and play
they're really simple devices to use see now it does a reset it's gonna try again
I haven't touched anything yet
see you there it is p20 9f and that is C this case p20 9f
now that is a real bummer of a code on this car because because by looking up
on Google you type in p2 0 9f and it tells me that there's a fault
within the heater the de F heater circuit there's a discrepancy there's an
issue and I'll show you that code here but unfortunately with these X fives or
these 35 DS this is not an uncommon failure mode and it becomes a very very
expensive fix but enough about that let's look at this in some cases you're
able to do a full reset now unfortunately my code reader doesn't
always work sometimes it will reset this car sometimes it won't
it always resets my m5 and it resets some of my other vehicles will not
always reset my x5 so we'll give it a try
so once press it again it's trying to do a restart
so it didn't work for some reason it didn't allow me for a restart on this
device so again in the hands of a good do-it-yourselfer a tool like this is
invaluable you spent $100 maybe 50 bucks on a device like this this one here only
cost me about I think about $80 $70 Canadian you can get these as cheap as
about $30 canadian now they're they're almost throwaway they're very very cheap
but even if you had to spend a hundred and fifty bucks maybe even $200 for a
really good scam tool one trip to the dealer quickly just throws that cost
away and you're able to save a lot of money by yourself now the thing is you
may not necessarily want to repair every fault yourself you may not want that may
not be up to you however it gives you the option and not only does it give you
the option but at least it goes you it allows you to walk into the dealer
knowing full well that there is a possibility that they will not throw you
under the bus and they will not gouge you after all they're not called Steeler
ships for nothing and unfortunately my next vlog we're gonna be talking about
this so you want to stick around till next week you're gonna find out what
came about this whole situation with this x5 and this fault code you're gonna
want to check it out so make sure you subscribe hit the notifications bell
you're gonna find out a lot more about my little ongoing saga with this x5
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