From: Yousuf Khan on
I believe that OBD-II (On-Board Diagnostics version 2) plugs became
standard on all North American vehicles, including Toyotas, by 1996. But
right now I'm in a country which receives a lot of used right-hand drive
Japanese-market vehicles. I'm noticing that some of these cars even from
as late as 1998 didn't have any OBD plugs. Any idea when OBD plugs
became standard for the Japanese market?

I'm sure that the Japanese version of OBD-II would be called JOBD or
something, but it'll likely be compatible anyways.

Yousuf Khan
From: Jeff Strickland on
OBD II was required on all vehicles intended for the USA market -- perhaps
the North American market, not just US -- beginning with 1996 model
production. Toyota implemented OBD II in some of its 1995 model production.

One of the standards of OBD II is a standardized configuration of the data
port, both for size and shape, and for location within the passenger
compartment.

Since the USA has no righthand drive version of any automobile, there is no
spec. here on where the data port might be located or when the spec might be
implemented.



"Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I believe that OBD-II (On-Board Diagnostics version 2) plugs became
>standard on all North American vehicles, including Toyotas, by 1996. But
>right now I'm in a country which receives a lot of used right-hand drive
>Japanese-market vehicles. I'm noticing that some of these cars even from as
>late as 1998 didn't have any OBD plugs. Any idea when OBD plugs became
>standard for the Japanese market?
>
> I'm sure that the Japanese version of OBD-II would be called JOBD or
> something, but it'll likely be compatible anyways.
>
> Yousuf Khan