Who is using Alfa OBD?

[J VanSteenwyk]

My harness is completely different. It also has a secondary port for more devices to be plugged in. I assumed one goes to the existing port leaving one to be mounted in the original mounting spot and another is “floating” behind the knee bolster. The blue and green harness plugs are what I’m confused about. The have plugs, not pins for a connector.

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It is a very different setup.
The smaller plugs go into the green strip. From what I have been able to find it doesn’t matter where on the green strip they plug in. Does that harness replace the existing OBD port altogether?

 

[dieselshadow]

I don’t believe so. In essence this harness just supplements the existing with no modifications. Plug and play. At least how I understand it. But then again, I don’t really have any documentation to prove one way or the other.

I followed a link to Z Automotive posted here by another member.

 

[sag2]

My harness is completely different. It also has a secondary port for more devices to be plugged in. I assumed one goes to the existing port leaving one to be mounted in the original mounting spot and another is “floating” behind the knee bolster. The blue and green harness plugs are what I’m confused about. The have plugs, not pins for a connector.

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The green and white connectors plug into the interior and high speed star connectors. The star connectors are just BUS bars that connect all the modules together. Plug them into any open cavity. As mentioned they bypass the SGM.
The harness you have appears to allow two scan tools to be connected, one bypassing the security module and the other passing through it.

 

[Timd32]

Parts are in, but storm is also coming so busy making room for plowing and the sort.

Will most likely jump on this next week.

Very nice harness, not worth DIY at the price point I paid nor can most replicate the nice moulded ends. This security bypass was like $25.

 

[J VanSteenwyk]

Parts are in, but storm is also coming so busy making room for plowing and the sort.

Will most likely jump on this next week.

Very nice harness, not worth DIY at the price point I paid nor can most replicate the nice moulded ends. This security bypass was like $25.

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That is the entirety of the hardware that I used. Just need the RFHub PIN and the AlfaOBD app and have fun.

 

[AH64ID]

Parts are in, but storm is also coming so busy making room for plowing and the sort.

Will most likely jump on this next week.

Very nice harness, not worth DIY at the price point I paid nor can most replicate the nice moulded ends. This security bypass was like $25.

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Do you have to de-pin the truck?

 

[J VanSteenwyk]

Do you have to de-pin the truck?

If you are meaning removing any pins from the OBD port then no. The 1 and 9 pins are open. At least they were on mine.

 

[AH64ID]

If you are meaning removing any pins from the OBD port then no. The 1 and 9 pins are open. At least they were on mine.

Gotcha. Just a very different way to do the bypass than the cable I bought.

 

[Timd32]

I finally got around to doing this how many months later.

Process was super easy.

I got it working, no clue how to use the software yet. We are still working was doing standby for a few hours and found the stuff in the glove box.

But its connected up. Will do the rh hub deal later to get the pin.

I used my truck key tools were in the building already but super easy.

 

[Wiredawg]

its probably mentioned in this thread, but only change ONE option at a time, save it, go out, verify option works, then do another. I did DRL on my Jeep, had to configure Jeep as Canadian before I could change them. Then had to remember DRL only works in Drive or Reverse.

Anhoo, good luck with yours.

Cheers, Ron

 

[Timd32]

its probably mentioned in this thread, but only change ONE option at a time, save it, go out, verify option works, then do another. I did DRL on my Jeep, had to configure Jeep as Canadian before I could change them. Then had to remember DRL only works in Drive or Reverse.

Anhoo, good luck with yours.

Cheers, Ron

Thanks,

 

[sag2]

And save the configuration BEFORE you start. The vehicle configuration used to be saved on the mainframe. Now it is only saved for one year. If you screw it up the only way to fix it is to have a technical advisor come out with the engineering tool and fix it line by line, assuming you wrote down what you changed. And it isn't going to be free, nor cheap.
The truck stores the backup configuration, and it updates that as you go. So even though you perform the restore configuration routine in wi-TECH it backs it up with a corrupted configuration. Be very careful of the changes you attempt.

 

[Timd32]

And save the configuration BEFORE you start. The vehicle configuration used to be saved on the mainframe. Now it is only saved for one year. If you screw it up the only way to fix it is to have a technical advisor come out with the engineering tool and fix it line by line, assuming you wrote down what you changed. And it isn't going to be free, nor cheap.
The truck stores the backup configuration, and it updates that as you go. So even though you perform the restore configuration routine in wi-TECH it backs it up with a corrupted configuration. Be very careful of the changes you attempt.

Thanks for the heads up, just doing the air pressure deal right now for the TPMS stuff. I found that if I don't reset my oil change interval that message blocks the TPMS on the display and then clears, but if I have the oil change reset I have to push a few buttons to clear the message.