{"id":700,"date":"2017-12-02T00:53:06","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinfiltenborg.dk\/blog\/?p=700"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:20:57","slug":"ye-olde-automobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/mechanics\/cars\/xantia\/ye-olde-automobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Ye olde Automobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a particularly good customer to the local garage. And I&#8217;ve now finally gotten some progress with a chinese-copy-ECU-diagnostic-tool that I bought for my old Citro\u00ebn Xantia. That&#8217;ll probably make me an even less attractive customer. However, I&#8217;ll hopefully gain a whole new level of control over the machinery.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s been a long way, involving a complete laptop designated to run the arcane diagnostics-software from around Y2K, a 32-bit Win7 install and a lot of jumping through hoops to get the system going. Brings back memories of struggling with yucky Windows machines before I discovered the wonders of Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got the OBD2-connector loaded up with what looks like a proper firmware. Nice &#8211; I have enough paperweights as it is! Next will be seeing if it gets me in touch with the cars ECU&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a particularly good customer to the local garage. And I&#8217;ve now finally gotten some progress with a chinese-copy-ECU-diagnostic-tool that I bought for my &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-xantia","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinfiltenborg.dk\/mechanicality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}