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gavin18787

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30th Oct 14 at 09:09

Anyone have any experiance of these? Any good?

Thought it might be a handy thing to have rather then having to trek to a garage when ever one is needed

like this one for example

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CAR-FAULT-CODE-READER-ENGINE-SCANNER-DIAGNOSTIC-RESET-TOOL-OBD-2-CAN-BUS-EOBD-UK-/141336954235?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item20e856c57b#ht_7555wt_1313

Gavin

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

DaveyLC

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30th Oct 14 at 09:17

Do lots of research! None of the cheap ones will work on every car so just make sure it at least works on your existing car

I've bought a few of these in the past and one of the best I found was made by UFITech ( http://www.uiftech.com/ )..

Also remember most cheap ones will only support one component (i.e. ECU, Transmission, SRS etc.).. And generally they wont let you interact much more than resetting codes..

...Oh and another slight down point, quite a few modern cars wont let certain codes be cleared without the proper dealer-tool (although some high end scanners can still do it).

If you've got a spare £1.5-2k floating about get your self a Snap-on SOLUS Ultra and as many extra keys as you can

IvIarkgraham

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30th Oct 14 at 10:05

bought one off ebay for about £6 worked on every car ive used it on

Munchie

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30th Oct 14 at 10:14

I use a £8 one off ebay with a Nexus 7 tablet. Works brilliant but you need to get the hacked version of the OBD2 program which is easily found

Ian W

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30th Oct 14 at 10:31

quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
bought one off ebay for about £6 worked on every car ive used it on

Similar here, think I paid a tenner and used it on BMW, Audi and Jag.

Ian

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30th Oct 14 at 10:45

I've got the model before it and its sound

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MS300-Engine-Code-Scanner-OBDII-Car-Diagnostic-Reader-CANBUS-Fault-Tool-/171518257310?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27ef48e89e

Doesn't do every code on every car but good enough for most EML / sensor related stuff.

gavin18787

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30th Oct 14 at 13:47

Ok cheers
ideally need one that works on my honda civic and mrs' s grande punto as that thing always has the eml on

[Edited on 30-10-2014 by gavin18787]

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

Ian

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30th Oct 14 at 17:27

Yeah should get most of what will come up on both of those.

Baskey

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30th Oct 14 at 19:24

Iv got a similar one, worked fine on my type r

gavin18787

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30th Oct 14 at 21:47

Right so either I get one of those or a couple more quid for a bluetooth one and use a phone ap. Would be good but then more to go wrong/not work :-/

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

IvIarkgraham

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30th Oct 14 at 22:13

its a bluetooth one I use

pretty decent

Carl

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30th Oct 14 at 22:26

Bought a cheap one for my golf and it helped me sort a number of issues out.

gavin18787

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31st Oct 14 at 13:21

quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
its a bluetooth one I use

pretty decent

Did you just download a generic phone ap to use with it?

Drives supercharged Tec with torque

tom_simes

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31st Oct 14 at 14:44

"Torque" is the app to get for Android - note that iOS doesn't connect to a Bluetooth adaptor, you need a wifi OBD adaptor for them.

IvIarkgraham

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31st Oct 14 at 16:04

quote:
Originally posted by gavin18787

quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
its a bluetooth one I use

pretty decent

Did you just download a generic phone ap to use with it?

Torque pro.
My adapter came with it on a disk. But its only £2 so I just bought it

Joel_Sxi

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4th Nov 14 at 13:53

I got myself a MaxiScan MS309 off Amazon for about 11 or 12 quid. Has worked on everything I have tried so far

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