Like most people that work on their own cars, I had other OBD scanners in the past and they all do a few things well but not everything for everyone’s needs and this one is the same. It does what it was made for and what it is programmed for. For the price, it is a very nice scanner and does a lot that others don’t, but it can’t cover every car, truck, and SUV on the market, so read up, do some research, and find the one for you and you vehicles. The ones that do it all, cost thousands of dollars.
This one has a very nice backlit four-inch screen with a rugged outer case with rubber around it, the handles, and the buttons. Using this is intuitive and easy to follow and figure out for the on all the basic info you may look up and use. Some of the more in-depth things you may need or want to look at may take a little reading of the manual (it’s only 20 pages long) beforehand but there are only four buttons that can be pushed, so it’s not that hard.
As most electronics that have firmware, the scanner software needs to be updated when you first get it, to make sure you have the latest updates for the manufactures of vehicles, you are working on (you can select the manufactures you want, I did all the ones in English and it took about 10 minutes). You need to create a a free account on their website, download the update software and install it, plug the scanner in using the USB cable to your PC and start the upgrade software. It will pull in the serial number and register code from the scanner. You just need to enter the email address you signed up for on the website and then select what vehicle manufactures you want, unplug the scanner from the PC, and pull the 16 GB SanDisk SD card (didn’t skimp on the card) from the scanner and put it in the reader they provide and plug that into your PC and hit upgrade and it will install the new software on the SD card. Once done, plug the SD card back into the scanner and turn it back on and you are good to go.
This comes with both a micro USB and Data Link cable for connecting it to your PC and vehicle. You can record your diagnoses that you run on the SD card and play it back later, on your PC if needed as well to make it a little easier to remember what you did.
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My Rating: 5 Stars
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