welcome to tech in the car i am oliver and in this video i'm going to talk to you about this
this is obd-11 and what it is is a little dongle that you connect up to your car to the obd reader
and it's a fantastic gift for christmas it's also really really useful if you want to scan your car
maybe you want to add some features which weren't on there already so in this video
i'm going to give you a little example of how this works i'm going to demo it
and there are links below where you can buy it if you're interested in buying
one of these big thank you to obd-11 for this and a big thank you to marshall cause an audi
for this beautiful audi rs3 i made a lot of videos about so anyway let's get on with it
so let's talk about obd-11 this little dongle connects to the obd port which is down underneath
the steering wheel and i'll show you in a minute and it allows you to do cool things like one
click apps which let you add functionality to your car that maybe you didn't have and i'll show you
in a minute some examples of that so you know when you get an error message on the screen of your car
with obd-11 you'll be able to scan the car find out what the error message is and identify what
the problem is just like your dealer can do and then if it's not a serious issue
or you've had it resolved you can clear it using this likewise if you have a service
service light comes on you can clear it using this there's also something called long coding which
allows you to adjust car functionality if you are aware of what you're doing and know how to do it
and this is the first third-party device that uses something called sfd unlocking which is
new and is not been available until now it works on all vw cars from 2020 onwards and what cars is
this compatible with ew audi skoda bentley seatt cooper and bugatti not that i have a bugatti that
i can test but apparently it's competitive with bugatti as well and so there's a lot of
functionality in this it's a really great gift as well so i'm going to do is i'm going to plug this
in now and i'm going to open the app on my phone and i'm going to show you what it looks like on
the phone don't forget there are links to buy this underneath in the description so if you want one
of these great gifts please click on my link to do that so let's connect it up first of all so
let's you know let's turn the car on first of all because it's a bit cold today so the car is on now
and the obd port is down here at the bottom so we slide in here now i know where it is
because i've done this before and there's a little light which pops up on top as well
so you know it's on and it's working and then we can get our phone
now a key thing to know here is the app works on android and on iphone it works
on both there is some functionality you can't get on iphone you can get on android
because android is a bit more open but it still works all the main functionality works which is
really handy so i'm going to show you a screen recording of this now so you can see for yourself
it's going to ask you to type in your password so let's do that now and enter it
so it's now going to connect to obd-11 so it will detect the vehicle so it knows what this
car is and now it will scan the control units of the car so basically each part of the car the
system which makes up the car the computer has got various control units which are like the braking
is divided into one section the steering the infotainment system so it scans all these systems
to look for any errors so this is basically the functionality where you get in the car
and you get an error message this lets you scan it so immediately it's going to scan it and it's
going to look for any error messages if it sees any error messages it will then report it here
now this takes a few minutes because in most cases there's over 30 different units it needs to scan
so it can take several minutes of doing you will need an internet connection as well so don't try
and use this without an internet connection because it probably won't work if you do it
that way but it's going to load now so i'll come back to you in a second when everything has been
loaded oh there we go didn't you need to come back so now it's done now i can scan it so now this
will scan in this car there are 34 different units it's scanning so it's going through transmission
through brakes and this will take a few minutes to do air conditioning like i said there's 34
units and we're on to number four so let's fast forward this a tiny bit because otherwise it'd be
incredibly boring watching this for five minutes but you get the idea hopefully of how it works
and then we'll come back to this in a second so it's just about finished scanning so it says seven
problems found so you then have a choice you can either swipe up to clear it or swipe down
to rescan or you can click on them to go into what they are so the truth is the issues on here aren't
real issues this is a new car the issues here are basically errors which automatically will
clear themselves for example the door is open or the alarm is triggered as you can see there
so they're not actual problems that you need to worry about on a new car but stuff like
for example as i mentioned issues which actually bring up a warning light they are the stuff which
you need to look at but you can see by looking at this app all different areas gateway break boost
engine transmission brakes air conditioning central electrics adapter cruise control wheel
dampening airbag dashboard steering column lock driver door steering system multi-function module
passenger door multimedia tire pressure rear view camera telematics parking assistant head up
display driver assistance start system interface rear door left rear dual right sunroof led module
left right wireless charger burglary protection control modules so those are all there so you can
see all of this information so we're all okay there then if you go back here you can see an
overview so you can see the model you can see the production there you can see the vin number
you can add an image you can see the mileage you can go into the history and you can see
if there's been any faults you can back it up so let's say you want to make a change to anything on
the car you can back it up so it put it back to exactly the same if you need to then you've got
your discussions at the bottom which take you to the obd forums you can chat to people about
your car but the most interesting thing here is the apps if we go into the apps now so now this is
the one click app so important to note that these things cost credit so there is a charge for them
you can get free credits by watching adverts or you can buy the pro pack or the ultimate pack
and get free credits or you can buy credits if you want to so we've got options here of adjustments
so tpms in dashboard so i can put the tire pressure monitoring on the virtual carpet so on
this car already has it so that won't do that on here but if you didn't have it and you had it you
could do that locked unlock visual confirmation so the lights will flash again it does it on here
signal horn always operable scandinavian daylight i'm running lights what that means is the lights
are always on the interior light fading you can turn on wireless carplay you can do a
needle sweep you can have motion video while driving if you want to you can turn high beam
assist on optical parking systems the brake light you can you can change lots of different things
just scrolling through here you can hopefully see some of things now not all of these are gonna
be available on every car because it depends on what kind of car the rs3 being the top range has
basically all of these features already but if you didn't have for example the torque meter
on your a3 you can add a torque network meter if you didn't have the power display you can add the
power display you didn't have the g meter you can add the g meter so you can add this functionality
that wasn't originally on your car if you go into retrofits if there's retrofits it will
show you there and workshop so workshop allows you to reset the stuff like your service lights
for example brake pad replacement oil service and lets you do that and again it costs credits that
you can get and that is what it does and like i said it's a really really simple to use system is
not expensive it lets you have extra functionality something's add extra functionality it's got sfd
unlock which is new to vw cars with a third-party dongle and and it's really really handy as a tool
to know if there's a problem with your car what the problem is so i strongly recommend
it like i said links below in my video you can buy it underneath here there's descriptions and
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