Diagnostic sockets...

[MJBD8]

Me and the old man both drive D8 1.9 Turbo diesels My dads is a 1996, mine is a 1998 yet the diagnostic ports are different.

I was toying with the idea of buying a cheap reader incase my luck runs out. Can any one tell me about them?

Dads is a female socket with pins inside it approx 1/2" wide 1 1/2" tall.

Mines a D shape.

Many thanks

[jameslxdt]

yours is the OBD socket, the other one is known as Brown 32-Way, both are incompatable with the code readers you see on ebay, if you can find a TEP, an old peugeot diagnostic system, this will work, but they are as rare as rocking horse poo, otherwise you need a DIAG2000, or peugeot planet, both cost £££££
on the brown one there is a way to get the fault codes out by linking two of the pins togther, but i cant remember which

[teamster1975]

Couple of screen captures for you
They're not uploading in order for some reason, the bottom of this post is the first capture.

[teamster1975]

Here's the last two, had to split the post
These are in reverse order too

[jameslxdt]

yes thats it, where did you get your copy of autodata?

[teamster1975]

Ebay, best £7 I ever spent! It's got all the service manuals on the dvd too including the turbo engine!
Item no 300159789554

[MJBD8]

Righty but what can I use to talk to the OBD socketed one? surely this would be standardised?

[mjb]

Bloody hell it's rare someone other than spammers resurrect such old threads, let alone the OP!

I don't think you'll have much luck with the diag socket - I've got an OBD-shaped one on my '98 D8 but can't seem to find any conclusive info on it. Not willing to blow £££ on an interface that won't work either