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Yeah in theory all OBDII readers are compatible with any car manufactured after 1996.
FWIW, the unit I bought is identical to this one:
Ah. Not quite. Only in the USA. I believe its in their design rules that every vehicle manufactured after 1996 must be OBDII compliant. In Australia, though, there's no requirement for that (unless its been added in the past year or 2).
Exactly - hence the "in theory" wording ;) Luckily for us the Toyota Aurion does seem to have full OBDII support!
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Yeah in theory all OBDII readers are compatible with any car manufactured after 1996.
FWIW, the unit I bought is identical to this one:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Auto-Car-V1-4-ELM-327-OBDII-OBD2-Bluetooth-Diagnostic-/110722115862
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I got an ELM unit from ebay for $30 (bluetooth version). It didn't come with any software but you can find that online eg. Torque for my Android phone works great with it :)
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There is a rubber plug in the firewall on the passenger side. You dont have to remove the plug. Its rubber so its quite flexible. Poke the 8 gauge wire through there from the engine bay side and it is easily found on the other side under the glove box. Just remove the cover under the glove box (just a few clips). Then hide it under the scuff guards until the seat.
Thats my set up anyway :) Hope it helps!
Thanks guys. I ended up going with jaysonn341's suggestion and it works great. I figured out the rubber firewall grommet has two "spare" channels on each side of it. If you look from the engine bay side you see two rubber "fingers" next to where the main bulk of cabling passes through. If you lop the end off a finger then the channel passes all the way through to the passenger side footwell. My power cable fit through perfectly :)
I ended up running the cabling with the rest of my head unit cabling under the centre console as I had removed the centre console cover to install some other stuff anyway. Works great :)
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Apologies if this has been covered before, my searching couldn't find it.
I bought one of those slim "under the seat" subwoofer units and have wired it up to the head unit and ground, no worries. However I am still looking at the best way to get the 12V power to it. The manual for the sub recommends running 8 gauge wire with 30A fuse direct to the battery but that seems a bit overkill to me. The sub is "1500 watt" but that is in fairytale numbers so I doubt it is going to require that sort of power feed.
I had a poke around looking for convenient holes in the firewall anyway, but no joy.
What is my best bet?
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The aftermarket units are getting pretty sophisticated. Check out the discussion here:
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The megaupload and filesonic download links are both unavailable - anyone got another link handy?