My plastic OBD2 plug has the locking tabs broken off. That fails me at the emissions testing lane for not being solidly mounted. Anyone ever swap in a junkyard plug?
The plug seems to be part of the main dashboard harness.

 

[QUOTE=EarlD;4351490]My plastic OBD2 plug has the locking tabs broken off. That fails me at the emissions testing lane for not being solidly mounted./QUOTE]

This same thing has happened on my '13 and it pisses me off that it was attached by such crappy tabs. Leave my BullyDog programmer plugged in to that all the time so I thought I'd try to use an OBDII splicer so I could have that plugged in and then try to mount the other port in the factory location and make it stay put somehow. That didn't work all that well. When I got mine inspected, the port was not securely attached and nothing was said about it. That might be a difference in requirements here in Texas, or it might just be my guy was lax. I've thought about just using epoxy to make it stay in place. Sorry that isn't any help.....I commiserate with your predicament.

 

This has popped up before and the recommendation was to get a plug from the junkyard and just move your wires over to it. There's a special tool you can buy that will allow you to non-destructively remove the pins and wires, but I'm not good with specialty tools like that. I too fit in the category of broken tabs and I leave my obd2 scanner plugged in all the time so it stays in the bracket.

 

I took the quick and dirty route of drilling 3 #19drill .166" dia holes .625" and .313" apart. Three #8 sheet metal screws then lined up with vacant pockets in the bottom row. The corner screw tightened up nicely. The others didn't bite as well. The plug feels plenty solid though.
Back to the emissions testing lane tomorrow.

Finished!


Screws will go into the holes marked in red.