Thread: What are your opinions on the Torque app?

Well, for $5 I'll see if it works. If not I'll spend the $20. lol

i got a elm 327, not the mini one, the larger one. works for me and cost like 11 shipped.

I got a elm 327 from eBay as well 9 bucks 3 years ago..no issues with it.

Originally Posted by Booba5185

Those are the cheap Chinese knock offs. About 1 in 10 work. They have gone WAY down hill in the last few years, and is the main reason Torque\OBD2BT has a bad name, lol.

When I originally bought it it was like $35.

everyone like omg torque is great for reading codes...........

let me know when you need to know something other that why the idiot light is lit.

can it do wideband a/f ?

how about long term/short term fuel trim?

how about oil pressure?

again those 3 alone are important imo for a boosted vehicle.

btw the aeroforce does have a g force meter and for fvck sakes i hope your torque app has a damn gps after all its on a cellphone is it not? hmmm bet the cell phone has gps even without torque app weird!!!

its not about what the torque app can and cant do its that the aeroforce is expandable by adding sending units to monitor things the cars pcm doesnt have a clue about......

some people leg humping the torque app need to review the list in the 2nd post of what the aero can do.

if your only checking codes by all means use whatever is cheapest. personally the aero can handle more than that app ever will.

Torque can't use oil pressure or a wide band, but it does everything else you've listed. If those 2 things are worth the $220 extra, then go right ahead and pay it. Nobody is leg humping anything. I did beat a dead horse earlier though.

Exactly wideeeeeeeeeee band! People don't pay attention to that on a boosted car?

If not you should.

I suggest mod rule #2 Never pay full price for parts. LOL

Mod rule #1 will always be THY SHALL FIX OWN SH!T.

You could buy torque, a wide band, and oil pressure gauge with sending unit for for under 250 bucks....almost the cost of just the aeroforce...aeroforce, wb, oil pressure gauges, or aeroforce and needed accessories to read those on your aeroforce 400ish? And the torque app has a sweet navagation/log system...you can track where you drove, and click any where on the route and it will pull up whatever parameters you are logging at that point..including ltft/stft...and you can see more than 2 gauges at a time all on one screen...not bad for 20 bucks... I'm not saying it's gods gift but for 20 bucks it does 98perecent of what an aeroforce does including kr..which is good enough for 80 percent of the people on this site....I use both and a wb. I like the aeroforce cause its set to annunciate kr and that is in my view, but watching 8 different parameters on a touch screen is useful as well.


Pay no attention to my vac. Leak and I was reading reading the wrong afr in this, torque can't read metered afr, but it does commanded.

Originally Posted by Kaiser Pontiac

Screw it, I'm ordering that, it's $5!

When I first got here I asked about these devices, and the only one that everyone said would work was the BAFX. I took the advice of someone on here and bought the exact same device from the exact same seller and when I got it, I could not link to a GM vehicle. It didn't work in any GM car or truck. It worked on every other vehicle I tried, (Ford, Dodge, Honda, Mazda, Nissan) but didn't work for anything GM. It was $8 and I gave it to a friend that had an Acura and a Mazda. Bought the BAFX one for $24 and haven't had any real issue with it. So it ended up taking me 3 weeks before I got something that worked. Spend the money or it's a crapshoot.

Jeff

This thread is dumb. You can use any app with any of the connectors.

Some like to use their phone or tablet. Some like to have a gauge pod

Some people like to spend a lot of money, others don't. $250 < $400 for all the same features.

I get it. But you can't force feed people You can give all the right the answers but they still do the exact opposite in the end. GPF life sir

This is a Deja Vu thread.

All over again.

This is a Deja Vu thread.

all over again.

Originally Posted by J57ltr

When I first got here I asked about these devices, and the only one that everyone said would work was the BAFX. I took the advice of someone on here and bought the exact same device from the exact same seller and when I got it, I could not link to a GM vehicle. It didn't work in any GM car or truck. It worked on every other vehicle I tried, (Ford, Dodge, Honda, Mazda, Nissan) but didn't work for anything GM. It was $8 and I gave it to a friend that had an Acura and a Mazda. Bought the BAFX one for $24 and haven't had any real issue with it. So it ended up taking me 3 weeks before I got something that worked. Spend the money or it's a crapshoot.

Jeff

Well, I got two day shipping, so worse comes to worse I can keep it for other vehicles and get the other one here in a couple days. So, you got http://www.amazon.com/BAFX-Products%.../dp/B005NLQAHS eventually?

Why can't torque read the map sensor correctly?

Can it not read the MAP in/hgs like other gauges?? Just find it weird that you are reading negative boost numbers lol.

It's a setting in Torque to change the units of measure, it can read it just fine.