Vehicle Data Recorder

VDR Operator's Manual

Introduction

This guide has been produced to assist you in the installation and operation of your new Vehicle

Data Recorder, VDR.

Please read and understand the important safety information contained in this guide before you install and use the VDR. You are advised to keep this guide with the VDR for reference and troubleshooting.

Please read and understand the instructions before using this equipment.

This guide contains clear instructions on assembling, connecting and preparing the VDR for use.

The information in this guide is supplementary to any Ford IDS Training Courses.

The VDR is a portable diagnostic tool used for capturing and storing vehicle communications link data during a road test, and is used with the IDS. This tool will retrieve, via the vehicle's

Diagnostic Link Connector (DLC), selected parameters for processing and recording. The VDR can be installed in the customer's vehicle for obtaining data when drivability symptoms (or other customer-complaint symptoms) are encountered. The VDR can be configured with vehicle specific information using the IDS software. The process of configuring the VDR is referenced as

Set-up.

Upon completion of vehicle testing, the VDR will pass the recorded data and any associated information back to the IDS (this process will be referenced as

Upload

). After the data has been uploaded from the VDR, the data can be viewed the same as it is viewed in

Datalogger

Playback

.

For instructions and operations of the IDS Software, refer to the

IDS User's Manual.

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