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Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby Billinavan » Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:44 am

Hi all, hoping someone can point me in the right direction for an adapter cable to run FORScan on Windows laptop in the UK, been on the FORScan site and it recommends an adapter but links to an American site. Reading on the FORScan site it says on there ELM327 family is recommended for amateur and semi-professional usage, I need it for injector programming so I believe this will suffice, if anyone can recommend something that will work would be appreciated....
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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby Billinavan » Mon Oct 07, 2024 9:45 am

Just to addd is for a 2012 2.2 RWD transit..
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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby Altransit » Mon Oct 07, 2024 10:13 am

I use a modified ELM327, bought from Tunnelrat Electronics, but I believe that they now recommend V-Linker, especially for the later vans.
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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby Airthies » Mon Oct 07, 2024 10:37 am

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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby knobby1 » Mon Oct 07, 2024 8:26 pm

Billinavan wrote:Just to addd is for a 2012 2.2 RWD transit..


As the other lads have mentioned..Foscan now recommends the V-Linker and OBDLink EX for the latest version of Forscan, V2.3.62....mainly for later model machines with newer type equipment that the older Transits don't etc..

If you're using the older versions of Forscan... the old ELM-327 will suffice.

https://forscan.org/download.html

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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby Billinavan » Mon Oct 07, 2024 10:36 pm

Thanks.. Iv bought the v Linker...
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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby sherwoodcycles » Thu Oct 10, 2024 9:23 pm

I originally tried the elm one. Twice. Nightmare to ever get it to work. Got the vlinker and it's been faultless
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Re: Choosing FORScan adapter cable

Postby Billinavan » Sat Oct 12, 2024 5:33 pm

knobby1 wrote:
Billinavan wrote:Just to addd is for a 2012 2.2 RWD transit..


As the other lads have mentioned..Foscan now recommends the V-Linker and OBDLink EX for the latest version of Forscan, V2.3.62....mainly for later model machines with newer type equipment that the older Transits don't etc..

If you're using the older versions of Forscan... the old ELM-327 will suffice.

https://forscan.org/download.html

Lord Knobrot


Thanks, bought the V-Linker from BMDiag(UK) from your link, works great. Cheers..
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