Automotive sensor display system

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I feel obligated to insist that OBDII is a very robust system - and expanding quickly - to include actively controlling the vehicle's braking, shifting, and steering among other things.

Sorry for the rant...

Very Robust, and expanding quickly. That is true, But, big big but, what year is this van? What was the state of OBD for that year? What was available and how much of the info was pro priority at that time? I think Bo is trying to avoid spending huge money and spending massive amount of time getting some basic info to his dash + Subaru != VW per Se in terms of "system". I have Snap-on mt2500 with software for my old cars, but compared to say a Ford Star tester, it's a toy, gets generic codes, reads some sensors, but for the other functions, no dice. So as I see it, you're both correct. . . and no I don't work on cars anymore, but I get where you are coming from.

So Bo, what year is the VW and the Subaru ?

BTW Skimask did an OBDII pic reader he was pretty darned proud of, posted it on YouTube looked pretty busy too, I'll try to find it.