View Single Post
      06-12-2011, 01:52 AM   #1
Sergio-K
Enlisted Member
Sergio-K's Avatar
Greece
2
Rep
39
Posts

Drives: BMW 335i
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Athens

iTrader: (0)

Kiwi WiFi + BMW 335i = Fail

Just bought a Kiwi Wifi device from PLX Devices and hooked it up on my cars OBD port (BMW 335i E92 2007).
Got DashCommand for iPad2 and connected easily on Kiwi's WiFi network.

The smile wiped out of my face when i saw that NO DATA was pulling out of my cars OBD port except RPM and Coolant temp.
I set up everything in vehicle manager according to 335i specs but when i validated the PIDs i read out from console that almost ALL sensors were unsupported.

I went out and tried it in my wife's car (Range Rover Sport 2007 model) and to my surprise all sensors were sending out data to DashCommand through Kiwi.

I'm thinking that this may be caused due to BMW OBDII compliant port but as far as i know BMW adopted the OBDII protocol ELM after 2001.

Could anyone with knowledge on this matter help me out.

Does it need an alteration on the wiring in OBD port or BMW uses another kind of protocol (not SAE.MAF, SAE.MAP etc etc) for pulling out data from OBD port ???
__________________
Appreciate 0