A while ago I posted some of the best Android apps. This one I thought was so good I'm giving it, it's own post. It's called Torque, basically it reads your cars on-board diagnostics via blue-tooth. It will read error codes and turn off the check engine light. You do need a blue-tooth dongle that will plug into your car, any US car made after 1996 should work. You can find the dongles on eBay for about 20-30 bucks. It also displays all kinds of gauges that you pick out and put on your phone. It allows you to monitor all kinds of your cars info without buying and trying to fit more gauges in your car. There is a paid and free version. The paid version is 5 bucks and obviously has more features, but the free version has plenty to try it out with. It appears that the bigger the screen you have the more gauges you can put on. I'm maxed out with 8 on my Ally. If you have one with a 4" screen you could probably put on 10 or 12 maybe. I believe it supports the Android tablets, I saw a Dell Streak running it that had tons of gauges and graphs. A 10" tablet would be amazing, especially the upcoming Motorola Xoom, which I want more than anything. Go give it a try!
I'm not really sure why there's a "tear" in the picture. It's never done it before and I couldn't get it to stop.
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