Hi all,
Well, I have a Late 1996 build 318ti here in Australia, according to the VIN it is Euro spec (thanks to mallard). Now, I was seriously thinking of buying a DashDyno unit.
http://www.auterraweb.com/dashdynoseries.html And it was all going well since the specs for the unit state any OBDII car will work with the unit. So since I have only owned the car now for around the month i'm not overly familiar with it yet. But being late 1996 with the M44 engine I was assuming it would be OBDII. However I started hunting around the car and I couldn't find the internal OBDII connector??? You obviously can't miss the diagnostic port in the engine bay but I can't find the one inside.
So I did a bit of research and couldn't find all that much, except that european cars are different and use EOBD instead of OBDII or something along those lines? Some more research suggested that if you have an EGO sensor before and after the catalytic converter it's OBDII. I looked under the car, and I can only seem to find one EGO before the converter.
I took a look on realoem and put in the VIN number of my car. Looked at the exhaust system drawings and saw where the post catalytic EGO sensor should be... looked under the car and it isn't there.
So what's going on here?
If it isn't OBDII what is it? OBDI? on a late 1996 car?
If it is any help, this is the info Mallard pulled up from the VIN:
Type code CG72
Type 318TI (EUR)
Dev. series E36 (5)
Line 3
Body type COMP
Steering RL
Door count 3
Engine M44
Cubical capacity 1.90
Power 103
Transmision HECK
Gearbox MECH
Colour HELLROT (314)
Upholstery STOFF NETZ FLACHG.M.SW/ANTHRAZIT (C6AT)
Prod. date 1996-07-31
Order options
No. Description
243 AIRBAG FOR FRONT PASSENGER
255 SPORTS LEATHER STEERING WHEEL
282 LT/ALY WHEELS SPORT SPOKE STYLING II
305 REMOTE CONTROL FOR CENTRAL LOCKING
354 GREEN STRIPE WINDSCREEN
401 SLIDING/VENT ROOF, ELECTRIC
410 WINDOW LIFTS, ELECTRIC AT FRONT
441 SMOKERS PACKAGE
530 AIR CONDITIONING
687 RADIO PREPARATION
806 3RD STOP LIGHT
810 AUSTRALIA VERSION
818 MAIN BATTERY SWITCH
876 RADIO FREQUENCY 315 MHZ
925 SHIPPING PROTECTION PACKAGE
928 TYIRE CONTROL