Originally Posted by
BibaResto
Damn! The OS601 OBD11/EOBD scanner was delivered (Amazon) a bit ago. It took me forever to get all of the pins aligned. After turning the ignition on (but not starting car); then pressing the lower right arrow it went to my ViN number along with two very long numbers; I clicked on the upper left Digonistic button and it took me to a readout saying that it isn't connected correctly. It is definitely plugged in correctly. I'd previously got it to turn on but it wasn't pushed in properly, so checked if I'd bent any pins. They were fine.
I've tried everything I can think of but it keeps going back to it's not connected correctly. To repeat, once I got it all lined up correctly it slid on without any undue pressure.
Bad scanner or is there something I'm doing wrong? I've not removed it since it was such a pain to plug-in for me, but the fact it recognized this car tells me it should be working.
What would you do?
If new, could be a bad scanner. Is this some kind of special niche scanner? Have it replaced and go from there. OBD scanners should work right away and do what they do. Get another scanner and try again, I am willing to bet the scanner is crapola.
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