Do these boats come with the ability to read error conditions?
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Do these boats come with the ability to read error conditions?
Yes
But it requires a special connector and software. It's a scanner like your car
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Boats do have OBD but not the standardized OBDII
Yeah, the code readers are pretty much specific to the marine industry and tend to be prohibitively expensive. The cheapest one I found was hundreds of dollars. It just didn't make sense.
And for the newer boats, the display screens tell you the error codes and descriptions anyway, so it's reading it's own codes...
These are basically truck engines, wonder what the reason is for leaving something east like a OBD@ off? so you're captive to the dealer?
If you know why we have OBDII on light duty vehicles, you will understand it was not left off of boats. OBDII was federally mandated. Even prior to OBDII, you could still purchase an aftermarket scan tool and interface with OBDI on quite a few of the auto maker's system. However, some, most were the imports, kept their protocol proprietary. With that said, there is nothing preventing you or anyone from purchasing the software/cable and interfacing with your MEFI engine system. You are only restricted by your wallet.
MLA is correct. I'm pretty sure that I have MEFI 5 on my CAT 340 ETX engine. so that means for "only" $500, I could get this:
https://www.obd2allinone.com/mefi5scan.asp