This ELM 327 v1.5 was purchased from a seller on eBay to test what they are like. The seller was located in China. This same seller is on Amazon too. The photo is the picture of that obd2 scan tool received. The wait time for the tool to arrive was a bit over a fortnight.
Upon arrival I read the documentation, I inserted the tool into my laptop USB port, installed the drivers they sent. Then I installed one of the free software programs on the same cd. I preconfigured the software to the tool. Took it out and connected the tool to the OBD2 port of the car.
Driver training specialist IAM Drive & Survive is offering weekly motoring tips to drivers from its head of training, Simon Elstow. This week he is advising on managed motorways.
“Managed Motorways” is the term for variable speed limits, sometimes in conjunction with opening the hard shoulder to traffic at peak times. The IAM says that managed motorways are very successful: the first one was the M42 near Birmingham, in 2006, and it has shown a decrease in personal injury crashes of more than half, none of them fatal.
Renault has said that in 2013 it will introduce a Twizy that a 16-year-old will be able to drive without a full driving licence. It’s because it will be so light and low on power that it can be officially classified a quadricycle.The Twizy is Renault’s new two-seat electric city car, which as you can see from the picture above will be unlike any production car there’s ever been when it hots the shops in January. It sits its occupants in tandem and has a pair of weird part-doors that open upwards like a McLaren MP4-12C’s do.
