How to Audit a Custom OBD Cable Supplier: 7 Questions Your Current Vendor Can’t Answer

A bench engineer at a Tier 1 diagnostics company once sent me a return: a J1962 extension cable that passed continuity, passed Hi-Pot, and passed visual inspection. The customer’s complaint was intermittent CAN dropouts above 60°C. We cut the overmold open and found the problem in about ninety seconds. The crimp barrel on pin 6 […]