Ford Transit Custom OBD port location

Illustration — use it to know where to look.

Location

RHD (UK/IE): Driver's footwell, low on the right-hand side under the dashboard, just above the pedals and to the right of the steering column. The 16-pin connector sits behind the lower trim/closing panel that runs along the bottom edge of the dash; it faces down and is partly tucked up out of sight, so reach in from the footwell or use a torch. LHD (mainland Europe): mirror-image position - driver's footwell, low on the left-hand side under the dash, above the pedals and left of the steering column. Same location across panel van, Tourneo Custom and the battery-electric E-Transit Custom; the dash layout is shared.

How to access

On vans fitted with the lower closing trim, the connector hides behind a small clip-in plastic panel at the bottom edge of the dash - pull it off by hand, no tools needed, and the 16-pin socket is immediately behind it. On vehicles where the lower dash is open the socket is exposed and visible once you crouch in the footwell.

Illustration — use it to know where to look.

Location

RHD (UK/Ireland): driver's footwell, low down on the right-hand side of the lower dash, to the right of the steering column and directly above the accelerator pedal, at shin-to-knee height. It sits behind a small plastic panel about 10 cm wide let into the bottom edge of the dash trim, usually moulded or labelled 'OBD'; the BCM and the cabin fuse box live behind the adjacent trim in the same lower-dash region, so do not mistake the fuse-box lid for the socket cover. LHD (mainland Europe): mirror image — driver's footwell, left of the steering column above the footrest, same panel and same height. Position is identical across the whole 2012-2023 run and across every body — panel van, double-cab-in-van, Kombi, Tourneo Custom and Sport — and is unchanged by the 2018 facelift. Converted campers and coachbuilt bodies are the one exception worth checking before you quote.