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Will it work with my car?

Answer what you can and the page works it out as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere.

It will sometimes say we do not know, and that is a real answer rather than a failure — it means nobody here has checked that car yet. Ask us and we will.

And whatever it says: the lighting, the patterns and the colours all work with nothing connected to the car at all. Reading the car is what makes them follow your revs and your speed — it adds to the product rather than being the thing that switches it on.

Where it was sold new, not where it is registered now. An import was built to the rules of the country it came from.

For a car between 2003 and 2008 the make decides it, because manufacturers moved to CAN at different times. Outside those years the year alone is enough, and the model is so we can look yours up if we cannot tell.

Reading the car’s own data

Tell us the year and we can say more

The year is what decides this for most cars, so without it there is nothing to go on.

Check the socket yourself

This settles it properly, and it takes about thirty seconds.

Where it is
Within about half a metre of the steering wheel, under the dash — usually above the pedals or just to the left of them, sometimes behind a small flap or an ashtray. Regulations put it within reach of the driver's seat, so it is not hidden.
What it looks like
A 16-pin trapezoid socket, wider at the top, about 4 cm across. Sixteen positions in two rows of eight: the top row is 1 to 8 from your left, the bottom row 9 to 16.
The two that matter
Count to the sixth position on the top row and the sixth from the left on the bottom row — pins 6 and 14. If both have metal contacts in them, the car has CAN and this will read it. Plenty of cars have the socket with those two positions empty, and those are the ones that speak an older protocol instead.

Whatever the answers above say

It works either way

Every pattern, palette and colour works with nothing connected to the car at all — you set it up in the app and it runs. Reading the car is what makes the lighting follow your revs and your speed, so it adds to what is already there rather than being the thing that makes it work.

Or ask us

If you would rather not go looking, send the make, model and year and we will tell you what we can.

sales@tevtronix.com

Why the year matters most

CARGB reads a car by listening to the network it already runs inside itself. Almost every car built from 2008 onwards has one that can be reached through the socket under the dash. Before that, cars used several older ways of talking, and this does not read those.

That 2008 line is not a law in Australia, Japan or New Zealand — it is a law in America, and the cars sold here are mostly the same models. It is a very good guide and it is not a guarantee, which is why the answer above never claims to be one.