Hey guys.

My oversight in purchasing this car included not knowing that the OBDII port would tell all of our North American market scan tools to die in a fire.

I had one code and a flashing red light .. now I have two codes .. a flashing red light .. and a static red light. It's all in Japanese and life sucks.

Is there an easy way to get this sorted? Yes I searched .. and no I can't get my hands on a Toyota dealer specific scan tool.

 

Are you saying that when you try a regular American OBD tool what happens??

 

It fails to communicate with the device.

 

A JDM UCF20/21 is not compatible with OBD-II. You have to use a Toyota S2000 or a DST-1.

 

and it goes on fire, from what was stated.

yes, JDM cars do not have OBD-II. yamae is a member from japan, a very trustworthy advisor!

 

What is the most cost effective way to acquire one or the other?

 

when I worked at the largest Lexus dealership, http://www.ebay.com/itm/VETRONIX-MASTERTECH-CAR-DIAGNOSTIC-SCANNER-FOR-TOYOTA-LEXUS-GM-FORD-CHRYSLER-/321219789733?pt=Motors_Automotive_Tools that Toyota supplied to diagnose all Lexus models

 

The OBD II scan tool that works for me is made by Autel. The model is MS300. I got it off Amazon.com.

 

Yes, that tool is great, unfortunately it won't work on his JDM (Japanese model) of LS400

 

That is a big question to me too.

So far I have been successful just using the built-in function indicated at the middle part of the page although everything is written in Japanese.

To keep an old Celsior needs some Japanese language skill indeed.

 

Thinking of taking a course in Japanese so that I can better learn my Celsior

 

Currently, what is the most efficient/reasonable Diagnostic Hand tool/ Scanner for my 1996 JDM CELSIOR ( with English Translation) on the market ?

 

Flap over to Japan find the scan tool then a nice gal to marry that is bi-lingual. Bring both back. In this process, you now have set-up a means to obtain JDM goodies. This also allows trips to visit her family and enjoy the many tasty varieties of Japanese cuisine. Even better if she cooks and is into the car scene. No doubt you'll have to subscribe to NHK broadcasting so that she can get her fill of Japanese dramas and what is happening in the homeland. She can then tutor you.

Mmm...might be easier to find and buy a US LS400.

 

Thanks Id keep that in mind...but I LOVE MY JDM CELSIOR....she's a beast .....I just cant talk to her sometimes

 

seeing that this thread discussed alot about jobd and the limited success with very limited tool selection, i would like to share my recent expierence with the GRID data scan tool. I found this on ebay a little bit ago and decided to pick it up as it is meant to work with speciffically jdm toyotas from 90s-early2000s.





I thought i would have a bunch of trouble getting the program to run, and after hours of messing with windows 95 emulators i tried to just install the software to my windows 11 laptop, and it installed, i connected the obd controller, and everything worked. i was able to monitor all stats, see previously logged data from 2001, which i think is stored in the controller, and read/cleared codes. I am interested to see if anyone would be willing to install this software and see if it works with just a normal obd-usb cable with the driver installed.