I went for an emissions inspection and the technician needed to plug a diagnostics cable into the car’s OBD port. Please see the picture below. My OBD port looks like it has a splitter in it. Neither the technician nor I could unplug the splitter to access the OBD port directly.
Even though the splitter has a secondary OBD port attached, the technician wasn’t having it. He said he must plug in directly to the original OBD port.
The OBD splitter seems like pretty cheap plastic and we were both concerned that brute force would break all the plastic bits holding it in place.
Any advice on how to dislodge the OBD adapter or what to do here?
I expect that’s b/c an unscrupulous person (not you) could install electronics in the splitter in an attempt to trick the emissions checking computer. As posted above, you’ll have to figure out a way to remove the splitter gadget from the car’s obd ii socket. Try to do this so if something breaks, it is the splitter, not the car’s socket. Good lighting and a dentist’s mirror might help to find a way to pop it free. I wouldn’t want that gadget connected to my car anyway, might confuse or even damage the car’s internal computer network.
