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Why "Works with any car built after 1995", what's special about 1995?



>All cars and light trucks built and sold in the United States after January 1, 1996 were required to be OBD II equipped. In general, this means all 1996 model year cars and light trucks are compliant, even if built in late 1995.

http://www.obdii.com/connector.html


It works with OBD-II. All cars built after 1995 were mandated to support OBD-II:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics


Accoding to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics) starting from 1996 The OBD-II specification was made mandatory for all cars sold in the United States.




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