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Should have mentioned I'm a person who always shops for the best deal. For a bluetooth dongle for OBD2 for my own use it won't bother me a bit about data rate etc. I just want it to work with 1996 to 2004 OBD2 and be cheap. Would be nice if there weren't a bunch of lying sellers with CAN only ones falsely labeled as supporting OBD2.
I managed to buy all new and good quality bearings and drive belts to rebuild a variable speed drive on a milling machine for under $100 by finding deals on ebay and amazon. Just lobbing cash at machine tool parts vendors for the exact same parts would've cost several hundred.
Same deal with a JET 9x20 metal lathe I'm converting to CNC. The lathe is like new, no wear at all. Got it for $50. Picked up stepper motors, a ballscrew, a ballscrew linear actuator (that happened to be the exact right length), a linear slide rail (that will find some other use), a very sturdy table and various other bits and bobs for $300. The Star Linear actuator (made 2 or 3 mergers ago by an ancestor to Bosch Rexroth) now retails for well over $300 by itself.
Patience, and eventually a deal on most anything can be found. I did drop $2K on a proLIGHT PLM2000 CNC mill that merely needed one wire soldered to fix it. Ones like it in running order tend to sell for 4K to 4.5K. So after that splurge, I don' wanna spend $100 on an OBD2 dongle I'll use maybe twice a year, if that often.
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