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Old 08-09-2018, 06:11 AM   #1
Braingasim
 
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Drives: 2015 Yaris Hybrid
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Enschede, Netherlands
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OBD2 Scanner/App & more

Hello Yaris community!

I am an Ex-pat living in the Netherlands originally from New York/Florida.

I am very new here (my first post). My wife and I just bought a used 2015 Yaris Hybrid last month from the Toyota Dealership here and love it.

European laws and rules make it very hard to research the history of my car, but I was able to find out that it was in some sort of accident in the past (no other details than that). The car was build in France, traveled to Germany and then bought by the Toyota Dealer here in my town in Holland.

Anyway, we had a few orange lights turn on last week while on our way home from the Amsterdam. They flicked on after driving over a bridge threshold. I guess the slight bump made them light up (they were ABS related). So after getting the EU version of AAA out to look at the car, he could not reset the codes, but at the end we managed to drive home ourselves (turning the car off and back on reset the warning lights). The next day, the mechanic at the dealership said it was probably something to do with a miscommunication between the ABS sensor and the car computer and turning the car off reset the signal error.

So all this sums up to the question: I am interested in getting a OBD2 Scanner & app for my iPhone/iPad so i can take a look at my cars computer messages and the battery performance. I did a lot of online searching and found these two websites that gave some reviews on some items, but I do not know if they display the Hybrid battery performance as well as the standard messages for the car. I an fine with either Wifi or bluetooth also (iPad/Phone not Android).

The ones I thought were interesting were the following:

OBD Car Doctor @
https://scanneranswers.com/best-obd2...phone-windows/

Foseal scanner @
https://scanneranswers.com/obd2-ipho...-code-readers/

I really just would like some help choosing out the "right tool for the right job". I am not mechanically inclined and its more of having an understanding of what my car is doing and its health internally.
I didn't want to spend hundreds of Euros if possible too. Which is why I looked at the above selected options.

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Also, not related to the above question, our car came with a French manual. The car was assembled in France and Toyota doesn't really include a manual of the country it is sold in, only built. Would anyone know where I could get a "Hard Copy" of the manual (Dutch or English)? I have the PDF already, but having the actual owners manual in my hand just makes searching for things better. My wife found this website and we are thinking of getting it from here, but I wanted to ask, just in case someone here had a better source for one.
https://autoboekjes.nl/docs/e2e33a/t...-2014-t-m-2017

Thanks for reading and I hope to be an active member here!

Steve
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