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Types of car diagnostics

Timely car diagnostics is the first necessary thing that every driver should remember. There are two basic types of vehicle diagnostics. For complex car checking it would be the best to run both diagnostics types. 

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How to Check Out a Used Car Before Buying It

All drivers buying a used car worry about its condition and performance after the previous owner. Experts recommend starting the vehicle inspection from checking of the technical passport and all its data: the registration date, the year of manufacture, as well as checking the service book. 

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How to choose an OBD II adapter: Wi-Fi or Bluetooth

All you need to check your vehicle and start enjoying all application opportunities is a smartphone and adapter. One of the most common question on our portal is about choosing OBD adapter, particularly which one device is suitable – Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

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How to connect InCarDoc iOS and Android to OBD adapter?

InCarDoc is a top application for car diagnostics with millions of fans worldwide. Today let us remind information about connecting process and starting the application for iOS and Android operating systems.

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How an Engine Control Unit Affects the Car Performance? Check ECU with InCarDoc!

Electronic Control Unit (ECU) is embedded system that controls one or more of the electrical system or subsystems in a transport vehicle. ECU is a part of an engine management system allows car-owners to control vehicle internal processes.

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What is Lambda and How does it Affect Fuel Consumption?

Fuel economy is an important thing for every driver and InCarDoc functionality can help to save money on fuel consumption as well as on car maintenance. That`s why one of the most popular features among users is widget "Economizer" that allows drivers to monitor and control the fuel consumption in real time.

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Get to Know Some of InCarDoc Features

InCarDoc is an amazing application for drivers worldwide and 5 000 000 downloads are proving it. Besides of reading and cleaning trouble-codes, InCarDoc has many additional useful features for better communication with your car by recording trip parameters, analyzing engine performance, fuel consumption optimization and many others.

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Are All OBD Ports The Same? OBD II Ports - Differences and Locations

The creation of a common for all cars diagnostic port OBD II was associated with the deterioration of the environmental situation. In this case requirements to the technical inspection became stricter: it was mandatory to check the status of the ECU (electronic control unit) of the car.

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How to make a personal car diagnostic scan tool with your phone using the Bluetooth adapter ELM 327 and InCarDoc application?

InCarDoc is a universal, diagnostic application that is very useful driver assistant. With our app, you have the opportunity to get to know better your car inside. A huge number of car problems can be determined through self-diagnostics

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What cars are supported

App InCarDoc, primarily designed to work with cars designed to support for data reading protocols compiant with OBD-II standard specifications. As an extra feature, app might support some internal protocols specific to some car makes/bands.

Below we will look at how you can check your car compliance with OBD-II standard requirements and protocols and what could be done with non OBD-II models.

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How to update InCarDoc to Pro version on iOS devices

Frequently asked a question on our InCarDoc portal - How to update InCarDoc to Pro version on iOS devices? Some functionality is available only in PRO version, so if you need to empower the application capacity - read this article. 

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How we measure data for statistics

InCarDoc statistics processing methodology, collected by application users:

InCarDoc Server receives from mobile clients summary file(s) with fuel usage. Statistics is split by time intervals with 5 minutes duration (or less). Our server uses calculated average speed for each interval to determine driving cycle style.