Suggestions for OBD2 Scanners that work with these 2018-2020 Regals?

[CWright]

Any suggestions for OBD2 scanner that reads/clears codes for engine, ABS & SRS/Body that works with 2019 Regal Sportback? I am looking to disable Pedestrian Impact Detection System (PIDS) HOOD actuators. I will need to read b-codes (SRS/body) in case I get the resistor value wrong at first try. I will need one anyway sooner or later. Thanks

 

[danzig997]

You might try this GM/Opel scanner

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[CWright]

Thanks kindly for the suggestion. Seems that I wont be needing a reader, just yet. Got my PIDS disable working over the weekend, first try.
Cheers.

 

[abizzle]

Any suggestions for OBD2 scanner that reads/clears codes for engine, ABS & SRS/Body that works with 2019 Regal Sportback? I am looking to disable Pedestrian Impact Detection System (PIDS) HOOD actuators. I will need to read b-codes (SRS/body) in case I get the resistor value wrong at first try. I will need one anyway sooner or later. Thanks

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[lLePunisherl]

Any suggestions for OBD2 scanner that reads/clears codes for engine, ABS & SRS/Body that works with 2019 Regal Sportback? I am looking to disable Pedestrian Impact Detection System (PIDS) HOOD actuators. I will need to read b-codes (SRS/body) in case I get the resistor value wrong at first try. I will need one anyway sooner or later. Thanks

Why disable a safety feature?

 

[CWright]

Why disable? Neither the wife nor I have had any collisions in over 40 years. Now every day she parks that car in the garage and there is a piece of
foam attached to the workbench to prevent her from pulling in too far and damaging the bumper. Now I see others have had their PIDs go off on them for hitting a dog or other non-human things. I just got the feeling she's going to pop that hood one day pulling in as the system is not quite perfect. With the workaround, I know the car will be safe. I also have engine stop start disabled ... too much nanny state stuff these days..

 

[LLninja]

Why disable? Neither the wife nor I have had any collisions in over 40 years. Now every day she parks that car in the garage and there is a piece of
foam attached to the workbench to prevent her from pulling in too far and damaging the bumper. Now I see others have had their PIDs go off on them for hitting a dog or other non-human things. I just got the feeling she's going to pop that hood one day pulling in as the system is not quite perfect. With the workaround, I know the car will be safe. I also have engine stop start disabled ... too much nanny state stuff these days..

Someday they’ll take the wheel out of our hands and we’ll all be riding Johnny Cabs.

 

[abizzle]

Why disable a safety feature?

Probably because those of us with a sense of personal responsibility don’t need forced, technological behavior modifications in order to drive responsibly. Imagine how many lives could be saved if defective humans started driving like they gave a crap?

 

[thesyguy]

Probably because those of us with a sense of personal responsibility don’t need forced, technological behavior modifications in order to drive responsibly. Imagine how many lives could be saved if defective humans started driving like they gave a crap?

Yeah, I had the same attitude until some assh*le cut me off in my wife’s Crosstrek. If the auto braking had not taken over I would have broadsided a Charger doing 45+ MPH. I was paying attention and it started the braking faster than I could get my foot to the pedal. Had it not, I would have definitely been taking an ambulance ride with some serious injuries.

Your statement on “defective humans” driving with responsibility is a pipe dream.

 

[LLninja]

Yeah, I had the same attitude until some assh*le cut me off in my wife’s Crosstrek. If the auto braking had not taken over I would have broadsided a Charger doing 45+ MPH. I was paying attention and it started the braking faster than I could get my foot to the pedal. Had it not, I would have definitely been taking an ambulance ride with some serious injuries.

Your statement on “defective humans” driving with responsibility is a pipe dream.

Good point, plus if everybody had autonomous driving, then the software should prevent anyone from cutting people off. I can also see a world where platooning is possible (instead of the first car leaving the stop light, then the second, then the third… because it takes a moment for people to notice, everyone accelerates at the same time in formation. We could also be driving down the highways packed like a nascar race at Daytona and when a car needs to exit, the platoon parts like the Red Sea to let the exiting car leave the platoon. It might be scary to us to all be inches from each other, but then traffic jams in big cities would never occur in this scenario, except for the occasional broken down car. Even then the other vehicles could choreograph the lane changes to avoid the normal jam up.

of course, people’s freedom to express themselves like the coal rollers would be banned. No more drag racing. And cars with fast 0-60 times would be completely useless.

 

[abizzle]

Yeah, I had the same attitude until some assh*le cut me off in my wife’s Crosstrek. If the auto braking had not taken over I would have broadsided a Charger doing 45+ MPH. I was paying attention and it started the braking faster than I could get my foot to the pedal. Had it not, I would have definitely been taking an ambulance ride with some serious injuries.

Your statement on “defective humans” driving with responsibility is a pipe dream.

So the car performed the same action, only it was able to initiate it faster. That’s hardly a behavior modification.

Forced change on my driving habits won’t reduce the number of defective humans or the number of instances in which they act irresponsibly.

 

[abizzle]

Good point, plus if everybody had autonomous driving, then the software should prevent anyone from cutting people off. I can also see a world where platooning is possible (instead of the first car leaving the stop light, then the second, then the third… because it takes a moment for people to notice, everyone accelerates at the same time in formation. We could also be driving down the highways packed like a nascar race at Daytona and when a car needs to exit, the platoon parts like the Red Sea to let the exiting car leave the platoon. It might be scary to us to all be inches from each other, but then traffic jams in big cities would never occur in this scenario, except for the occasional broken down car. Even then the other vehicles could choreograph the lane changes to avoid the normal jam up.

of course, people’s freedom to express themselves like the coal rollers would be banned. No more drag racing. And cars with fast 0-60 times would be completely useless.

Look, it’s a noble idea, but there’s a fallacy in your logic. Engineering involves designing things which account for what-if’s. The best Engineers in the world can produce designs that are seemingly perfect, but every Engineer knows there’s always that one scenario for which they could have never accounted. And don’t even get me started on software.

 

[LLninja]

Look, it’s a noble idea, but there’s a fallacy in your logic. Engineering involves designing things which account for what-if’s. The best Engineers in the world can produce designs that are seemingly perfect, but every Engineer knows there’s always that one scenario for which they could have never accounted. And don’t even get me started on software.

Agreed, there will be interesting lawsuits in the future where software engineers might become liable for what their software does. Similarly, in a no win scenario, where a collision with a group of pedestrians is unavoidable, how does it choose which people to hit and which to spare? Or given the choice to hit a pedestrian or hit a concrete barrier and potentially kill you what does it choose?

 

[stembridge]

Thanks kindly for the suggestion. Seems that I wont be needing a reader, just yet. Got my PIDS disable working over the weekend, first try.
Cheers.

Care to share how? You may have read my thread from earlier this year when we hit a dog at low speed (~15MPH) and had to have the PID$ reset.

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[CWright]

How I disabled PIDS? Not fully disabled, kind of half way. I unplugged the cable from the pyro-actuator (both sides) and installed a connector with a 2.5 ohm resistor in it into the harness connector. When the SRS module goes to check the resistance of the actuator for presence detect, it really sees the resistor instead of the actuator and therefore will not throw a code. No messages on the DIC. Now, if the car hits someone/something within the specified parameters, it will still attempt to activate PIDS, but since the pyro-actuators are unplugged, the hood will not move. I suspect there would be a PIDS error on the DIC and the SRS module would have to be reset/replaced, but that is cheaper than a whole hood assy & pyro devices. Cheers.

 

[abizzle]

How I disabled PIDS? Not fully disabled, kind of half way. I unplugged the cable from the pyro-actuator (both sides) and installed a connector with a 2.5 ohm resistor in it into the harness connector. When the SRS module goes to check the resistance of the actuator for presence detect, it really sees the resistor instead of the actuator and therefore will not throw a code. No messages on the DIC. Now, if the car hits someone/something within the specified parameters, it will still attempt to activate PIDS, but since the pyro-actuators are unplugged, the hood will not move. I suspect there would be a PIDS error on the DIC and the SRS module would have to be reset/replaced, but that is cheaper than a whole hood assy & pyro devices. Cheers.

Do you know what system bus PIDS uses for communications?

 

[CWright]

The pyro-actuators & sensor in the bumper report/connect directly to the K36 SIR module. The K36 has a connection to Instrument Cluster for the error message. This is all I know. A big thanks to the one that posted the 2018 regal service manual somewhere on this forum.

 

[CNYmetalGuy]

You might try this GM/Opel scanner

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VXDiag VCX NANO for GM/OPEL comes with both GM Tech2Win and GDS2 software. It comes to replace GM original tool MDI and Tech2. VCX NANO GM is Compatible with applications that diagnose engines, transmissions, ABS, instrument panels and more. Techline Connect Service Programming System (SPS2)...

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Have you ever used one of these? There has to be an easier way to reprogram the types of things that we want to without the study and trial and error needed to learn from that one site I sent you the link to