<p>There are some basic codes that most(all?) vehicles support and others that are specific to vehicles. Error codes definitely vary. Also afaik, as long as you have the obd port you're good to go.</p>
<p>Then again I'm no expert.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 25, 2012 3:05 PM, "Gavin Davenport" <<a href="mailto:gavdav@gavdav.demon.co.uk">gavdav@gavdav.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Arial">Hi there</font>
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<p><font face="Arial">Just stumbled onto this software - looks to be exactly what I want.</font>
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<p><font face="Arial">Caveats - </font>
<br><font face="Arial">I don't have the machine I will be doing this on assembled yet. It will be the latest fedora.</font>
<br><font face="Arial">I don't have access to the engine I wish to work with yet - it is yet to be installed.</font>
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<p><font face="Arial">What I would like to understand is how generic/specific a given engine's OBD dialogue is ?</font>
<br><font face="Arial">Does it matter what engine this software talks to ? </font>
<br><font face="Arial">Do manufacturers faithfully use the same codes for all of their engines ?</font>
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<p><font face="Arial">Gavin</font>
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