anyplace to read CEL for free?
 

is there anyplace in lower mainland that will do it???

Depending on your car you can sometimes jump a jumper and it'll flash the code, otherwise you can opt to buy a scanner yourself for a $100 or find someone to do it for you.

What type of car?

2000 celica gts

Man... Just buy from canadian tire, and return....

Or go to ur local shop, make friends...

I think toyota can usee paperclip trick too.... Use google, its ur frnd

obd2 doesn't have a paper clip trick.
that's only for obd1 and obd0 for some cars as it wasn't standardized.

Do you know anyone in the industry? Alot of techs have pocket scanners that'll do the trick just so you can read the code, and then go to Obdcodes.com to figure it all out.

If ur really stuck, u can use mine.