OBD II Vehicle Cable Assemblies

The On-Board Diagnostics II [OBD II] interface is a vehcile interface required on all cars and trucks in the US after 1996. Refer to the main page for a short description of the OBD II interface. The signal assignments for OBD II is listed on the OBDII pinout page. However this pin out is for the OBD II end of the cable and not the far end which may be a DB9, or DB15 as shown below. The graphic to the left shows a OBD II female to OBD II male cable assembly, click for a larger image.

The new page additions hold pictures of different types of OBD II cable assemblies. An OBD II connector is always on one end of the cable, with some other connector style on the other end. In most cases the far end of the cable is either a DB9 or DB15 pin connector.

OBD II Cable assemblies; OBD end listed first.

Male narrow OBDII to DB15 pin Cable.

Female OBDII to 2x2 pin Cable. Split, VW

Right Angle Male OBDII to female DB-9pin Cable.

Male OBDII to DB9-pin Cable right angle.

Male OBDII to Male DB9-pin Cable.

Male OBDII to Male DB15-pin Cable.

Male OBDII to Female OBDII Cable. Gender changer

Female OBDII Cable to BMW connector. Circular, BMW

Each of these pages have links to all the other cable pictures, assuming no broken links..

Link to description of many other Automotive Buses.

The new cable assembly pages have not yet been added to sitemap for interfacebus.

OBD II Cable Assemblies

The web site contained three pages which referenced the OBD vehicle interface. The main OBD description page, the OBD pinout page, and a Glossary page for OBD terms. It appears that the OBD pinout page [signal assingments] is identical to the main page.

Both of those pages were pointing to graphic [gif] files to detail OBD II cable assemblies. Now those gif files are moving to their own pages, looks like tonight the correct links will reside off the OBD pin-out page. The main OBD bus page will be up-dated some time later.

Looks like there are 4 of 7 pages generated tonight;
OBDII to DB15 pin Cable assembly,
Narrow OBDII female connector to VW 2x2 connector Cable assembly,
Right Angle OBDII to DB9 pin Cable assembly,
OBDII to Right Angle DB9-pin Cable assembly.

Because all the pages contain links to all the other pages, they all need to be checked to insure that they all have the correct new links. So not all pages contain the correct link 'yet', as some have not been generated when another page had not been generated. It's a copy/paste error.

The OBD [On-Board Diagnostic] interface is used in cars and trucks to check engine status. The new pages show different cable assemblies, but pin outs are coming. The new links are under the OBDII Cable Assemblies heading per the pages refered.