A CAN Digital Dash for Almost Any Car Built Since 2008

No standalone ECU, no preset for your car, factory everything? The RDM-7 still works. It reads standard OBD2 out of the box, through the port that is already under your dash, on most cars built since roughly 2008.

What you give up, said plainly

OBD2 is the fallback, not the good path, and pretending otherwise would waste your money.

• Fewer channels. You get the standard set your car chooses to answer with, not everything the ECU knows.
• Slower. On OBD2 the dash has to ask for each value and wait. On a dedicated preset it just listens to what the ECU is already broadcasting, at bus rate.

For a street car, a daily, or a build where you want real gauges instead of a factory cluster, that is usually fine. For a track car chasing fast-moving values, a dedicated preset is worth having, and if yours is not built yet you can ask for it.

Nobody gets a dead end

That is the point of this page. If your ECU is on the supported list, there is a preset. If it is not and your car is post-2008, there is OBD2. If it is neither, you can import a DBC file or define channels by hand, and both are already in the firmware. There is no car we have to turn away.

What you need

The dash, and the RDM ECU Adaptor in its OBD2 variant, which is made in Adelaide and joins the 2 m lead in the box.

What you get

800x480 IPS touchscreen, around 50 fps. Up to 128 CAN channels. Logging to microSD at 1 to 200 Hz in plain CSV. Thirteen widget types and as many layouts as your card holds. The editor is served by the dash itself over Wi-Fi, so you build your screen on your phone. Free firmware updates, no licence, no subscription.

Display, logging and CAN transmit only. The RDM-7 does not tune your car.