{"id":13646,"date":"2022-07-03T21:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T21:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/?p=13646"},"modified":"2022-07-20T21:16:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T21:16:08","slug":"why-did-i-receive-a-linking-error-message-when-using-the-obdii-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/why-did-i-receive-a-linking-error-message-when-using-the-obdii-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did I receive a \u201cLinking Error\u201d message when using the OBDII software?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check if the vehicle being tested is\u00a0OBDII compliant (EOBD or JOBD is not supported)\u2028Vehicles adopted the OBDII system at different times and in different regions around the world:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n<li><strong>Europe:<\/strong>\u00a0Adopted OBDII system since 2006<\/li>\n<li><strong>U.S.A:<\/strong>\u00a0Adopted OBDII system since 1996<\/li>\n<li><strong>Asia:<\/strong>\u00a0Adopted OBDII system since 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Check if any other OBDII compliant vehicles (US vehicles, Ford, GM, Chrysler are suggested) are communicating with the scanner or not; If other vehicles are communicating fine, it is most likely that the vehicle you are testing is NOT OBDII compliant.<\/p>\n<p>If it is confirmed that the vehicle is OBDII complaint but you are still receiving a linking error, please provide the following details:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:10px;\">\n<li>region\/country<\/li>\n<li>screenshot of About information of your device<\/li>\n<li>VIN of your vehicle to our tech support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check if the vehicle being tested is\u00a0OBDII compliant (EOBD or JOBD is not supported)\u2028Vehicles adopted the OBDII system at different times and in different regions around the world: Europe:\u00a0Adopted OBDII system since 2006 U.S.A:\u00a0Adopted OBDII system since 1996 Asia:\u00a0Adopted OBDII system since 2009 Check if any other OBDII compliant vehicles (US vehicles, Ford, GM, Chrysler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faq-diagnostic-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/autel.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}