solution, do search for "torque' first. that took me to store,got tq lite to mess. its working.
whats the best free if there is a good one. otherwise to buy?

 

For those of you that have never used the application "Dash", I would suggest you give it a try.

It has a much cleaner UI than Torque, and even better - it includes a log book that also scrapes data from Edmunds about scheduled maintenance. Seems to be mostly accurate, and you can tweak almost everything.

Plus it syncs to "the cloud" so the data is accessible from other apps (but I haven't figured out how to "export" that, I would like to have a secondary copy maybe as a .CSV or something).

Also includes a gas price finder, parking location thingy (you can mark where you parked if you can get a clean GPS signal)

I still use Torque for detailed analysis but not really that much unless I am chasing an issue. Dash does almost all of it anyways, with a better user interface

 

did u pay for dash,,,torque, how much?

 

No, both are free to use for the basic version, and both have paid "premium features"

The free versions both let you read OBDII data, and the XJ doesn't really have much that you can write too anyways so I don't see a point in using the premium version.

Newer cars will let you change certain features, like Dome light delay, window speed and which doors unlock with the first press of the key FOB, but I doubt the XJ has any of those options

 

ok thanks.
im using torq now and getting used to it.