Does somebody use the bluetooth OBD reader and have the Torque application installed on your android phone or tablet?

This look like a brillant combo. You can add lots of gages like Fuel pressure, vacuum, hp, torque.

It also give you all the check engine codes in memory of your ECU.

Hope this will help me solve my issues.

 

I did a thread on this awhile ago....several members have one...myself included.
I love it...works on all my cars and you can set profiles for each one.
Saves me a trip to the store to read them. Great little system.

 

are you able to check fuel pressure, the TPS signal and the MAF

 

I have one, and it works great. It has the ability to show most sensors, but my 97 Blazer doesn't have a fuel pressure sensor (at least no software has ever shown it). It will even show fuel economy, but it's based on MAP or MAF sensor, and requires some more engine info to calculate (displacement and volumetric efficiency).

After my battery ran low, and needed a jump, I got a code. Checked immediately, and it was obviously from low batt condition, cleared it and it didn't come back. For real diagnostics, it still connects to a PC or laptop if you have better software. I forget which one, but one had "GM Extensions" that showed hundreds of things. As far as I can find, NONE of the software for these will ever do two-way stuff, like starting a relearn or other test.

About $100 for the bluetooth connection, and a $3 app. PC Software is a bit more, but there are free ones.

 

You can get the knock-off adapters for less than $20 shipped off of eBay.

 

My kid has it. Showed it to me on his jeep, the adapter wouldnt sync to the PCM on my Bravada

And there is no fuel pressure sensor

 

What's the power draw on these? Would the bluetooth adapter sap the battery much if you leave it plugged in at all times?

 

I left mine on for a week straight...i was checking out the data logging features...never had an issue.

 

I purchase one of the knock off OBD readers from E-Bay a while back, worked fine at first but when I got to using it on some other cars (Ford in particular) I found it to be shoddy at best, seems they cut a lot of corners with the ones on Ebay. I did however find one for sale from a company called BAFX Products and have tested it on multiple cars (Fords included) and it has worked with no problems, have noticed a very very slight lag but that is to be expected with these. The lag is nothing compared to the lag with the WiFi readers on Iphones which I have seen be as bad as 4-5 seconds! If anybody's interested this is where I foudn it. http://bafxpro.com/Elm327-type-Bluetooth-OBD2-Scan-Tool-For-Android-or-laptops-2.htm

 

For anyone interested, I've had this attached for months now 24/7. I tend to run the car at least once every other day, so I can't speak for long-term sitting, but my battery is unaffected by having this attached.

And now that I have a tablet mounted, I get real-time engine data on the fly. I just wish this year had more sensors.