Coming from the Audi world there were emulators available that you could purchase that would give full emulation of the dealer diagnostic computer. I'm not just talking about a simple OBD scanner. Such a computer will let you write changes to the various modules in the car, not just read and clear trouble codes. Does anything exist in the Honda world that is similar.

 

i suspect u mean the Vacom unit being used for Audi-VW?
as far as i know there is nothing available that allows u into the CAN-buss. there are some OBDII units that will allow communication w/ the emmissions computer (and allows u to clear codes).
another member here has recommended the AutoTap: http://www.autotap.com/#AutoTap

if anyone has any other reco's i'd love some feedback before i spend my hard-earned $$...

 

Yes, I was referring to the Vag-Com software, but there are several available. I started out with a 16-bit version called VWTool back in 1997 which I paid $800 for, but then purchased the Vag-Tool tool later on. There is even a Palm version for Vw/Audi called Prodiag.

Yea, I've used Autotap before, and that wasn't really what I meant. I was looking for something that was more Honda specific that was more of a dealer emulation rather than generic OBDII tool.

With the size of the Honda tuning community I'm suprised nothing exists.

 

i believe the dealers (incl. Honda) are using this:
http://www.teradyne-pocket-tester.co...sp?productid=2

it's $2k-

pls lemme lnow if u find a reasonbly priced (under $1k) alernative.

 

To me that looks like another generic OBDII code scanner. On the nicer end, but just a code scanner.

From what I found the dealer use this:
Honda Diagnostic System

Looks like they have three options for the dealers. One being a $9000 complete Tablet PC system, Pocket PC version, and a pure software version. It looks like the pure software version is $840. It looks like one of the options is the unit you listed, but has special Honda software on it.

HDS System User Guide