Thread: Scan Gauge II - With X Gauge

Hi Garry,

I can't help with your other questions, but your OBD port on the D4 is on the lh side of the steering column, facing down, about where your left knee sits.

Thanks - mine is playing hide and seek as I cannot find it - maybe I need to pull some trim panels off.

Cheers

Garry

OK - found it at the bottom of the trim pointing down just above the accelerator pedal.

Originally Posted by ADMIRAL

Hi Garry,

I can't help with your other questions, but your OBD port on the D4 is on the lh side of the steering column, facing down, about where your left knee sits.

On the D4 3.0 it is near the accelerator pedal, facing down.

I use a bluetooth OBDII adapter that talks to my Android phone running the Torque App.

Originally Posted by garrycol

I have a Scan Gauge to put on my RRS so that have access to more Trip Computer functions than the standard system has. So - who has one on their D3/RRS and where have you installed it? Where is the OBDII port in the car - I cannot find it. I am a bit baffled by the X gauge function. Can someone explain in simple (for a simpleton) terms what it is and what can be displayed via it. Also I appreciate it has limited code reading ability but what codes will they read on a TDV6 2.7?
Thanks Garry

Per the link below, there is a jpg that shows where I put the readout on my LR3. I have only cleared one fault and that was what I call the MIL light, the engine check light that for some reason went on just after an oil change. To my surprise, the ScanGauge II turned off the light and it has not come on since.

As to the X-Gauge functions, I have never bothered to figure them out as my primary reason for getting the ScanGauge was to get digital read outs of volts and water temperature, that sort of thing.

If it reads any LR codes at all, it will not be many as most of the Land Rover codes are secret stuff known only to the guys who have Faultmates - seriously, about the only codes it will read are emission system related so that does not help much with our kind of problems.

Also to my surprise, the ScanGauge worked right when I plugged it in - takes a minute or so for it to sort things out however. Also you can change the colour of the LCD background to match with the Land Rover green it you wish. I have had mine for at least a year now and it still seems OK.

DISCO3.CO.UK Photo Gallery - ScanGauge II on LR3

Now, this is an interesting find. Can you also clear faults with this?

I use a Garmin EcoRoute HD. It displays OBDII data as gauges on my Garmin GPS.

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?pID=38354

Originally Posted by unseenone

Now, this is an interesting find. Can you also clear faults with this?

Off hand I would say that you can only read and clear the simple emission faults with the ScanGauge II. In my case, it was turning the MIL light off.

This is consistent with all the cheap code readers, (say less than five hundred dollars), and with regards to the Land Rover, about the only thing that works well is the thousand dollar FaultMate MSV-2 Extreme. https://blackbox-solutions.com/shop/ This is because the Faultmate not only finds and clear faults like suspension, audio, brakes, engine, tranny, differentials and all the other system, , but then you can load in newer, (and hopefully improved), Land Rover updates that may solve an original LR fault.

It is hard to be even a shade tree mechanic on an LR3 without the Faultmate. You will for certain not have the ten thousand dollar dealer T4, and now even changing the rear disc brakes is a challenge without a way to set the electronic parking brake in service mode. Yes, there is a manual technique but I can pretty much forecast Land Rover "solving" that as well.