Analog to digital

[Rapewta]

Hello all you 996 lovers!

This is a short story and I have one question at the end.

My automobile experiences have been with cars from the 60's.

I owned a couple nice stock (65 & 67) corvettes. I even built a

replica 66 AC Cobra from the chassis up. Drove it for 20 years and sold in

last year. I rode motorcycles for years and finally fate caught up with me

in July were I ended up in the hospital for one week and two surgerys.

So I couldn't stand the void in the garage (no more motorcycles) and began

looking at the last sports car I will probably own. At first it was 78 + 911SC's.

Then I discovered for whatever reason that $20,000 would get me into a 10 year old,

low mileage, 1,2 or 3 owner pristine 996. Water cooled too!

I am a very content owner of a beautiful 996 6 sp Carrera 2 coupe.

After driving it for 2,000 miles.... yep, the CEL came on.

Technology is a good thing but I have been "old school" all these years and now

I need to change. My question is this:

I am willing to diagnose the causes and some I might be able to fix. What exactly is the

package (scan tool, software, interface connectors, etc.) I need to procure to do this?

[racerden]

Hello all you 996 lovers!

This is a short story and I have one question at the end.

My automobile experiences have been with cars from the 60's.

I owned a couple nice stock (65 & 67) corvettes. I even built a

replica 66 AC Cobra from the chassis up. Drove it for 20 years and sold in

last year. I rode motorcycles for years and finally fate caught up with me

in July were I ended up in the hospital for one week and two surgerys.

So I couldn't stand the void in the garage (no more motorcycles) and began

looking at the last sports car I will probably own. At first it was 78 + 911SC's.

Then I discovered for whatever reason that $20,000 would get me into a 10 year old,

low mileage, 1,2 or 3 owner pristine 996. Water cooled too!

I am a very content owner of a beautiful 996 6 sp Carrera 2 coupe.

After driving it for 2,000 miles.... yep, the CEL came on.

Technology is a good thing but I have been "old school" all these years and now

I need to change. My question is this:

I am willing to diagnose the causes and some I might be able to fix. What exactly is the

package (scan tool, software, interface connectors, etc.) I need to procure to do this?

You can purchase a low cost OBD2 scan tool from Jegs for $80 (extract & clear codes only) then use our site or whatever for code ID...a definate worth while component for the garage. Go to www.jegs.com and pop in part nmber 390-3030

[Rapewta]

I knew (without "search") someone would know. Thanks. Got a Jegs on my lap.

Edited December 11, 2010 by Rapewta

[Dharn55]

A Standard OBD2 will read some of the codes, etc. but you are much better with the Durametric that is specific to the Porsche's and will give you much more info, allow you to reset errors, etc. Here is a link.

http://www.durametric.com/default.aspx

[Rapewta]

Yesterday I picked up an OBD2 Car Reader. Kragen (O'Reily's) had them. Read enough to understand

it's purpose displaying DTC's. I only have a P1539 fault. Canvasing this web site, I now can

go forward and deeper into exactly what needs to be repaired. Thanks Loren and all of you that

delt with this before. What a nifty little gizmo.