{"id":5845,"date":"2011-09-07T06:15:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:37:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-01-18T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:56:37","slug":"torque-engine-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/torque-engine-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Torque Engine Diagnostic App and OBDII Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, every time I had a &#8220;check engine&#8221; light pop up I thought about plopping down $100 or more for an OBDII code scanner. I could never rationalize the cost of the the device and the limited benefits that it could give me (being limited to simply reading and perhaps resetting codes).<\/p>\n<p>However, that&#8217;s all changed. Now if you have an Android phone or tablet there is a much less expensive and much more useful alternative. An app called Torque Pro available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=org.prowl.torque&amp;hl=en\">Android Marketplace<\/a> provides an amazingly customizable dashboard of information. Among others, and depending on the vehicle you own, it can display transmission temperatures, 0-60 speed timings, and track CO2 emissions. The application is capable of graphing all the analytics, or outputting to a PC. Recently, the things that I have been using the most are instant and average fuel economy statistics. <\/p>\n<p>The OBDII interface that connects your car to the Torque app can be used by any bluetooth enabled code reader (Torque has provided <a href=\"http:\/\/torque-bhp.com\/wiki\/Bluetooth_Adapters\">a list of all compatible devices<\/a>). The one I use and recommend is the ELM 327 bluetooth OBDII scanner that I picked up on Amazon for around $20, but most compatible units will work just as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engine diagnostic tool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9114,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/9114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}