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From: Frank Rowe on 17 Apr 2010 11:47 Recently acquired two obd-2 compliant vehicles (2003 Audi TT and 2010 Toyota Camry), so I'm in the market for a scan tool. This is home garage work, so I'm not looking to invest a fortune, but I'm new to obd 2. Suggestions?
From: dr_jeff on 17 Apr 2010 11:57 Frank Rowe wrote: > Recently acquired two obd-2 compliant vehicles (2003 Audi TT and 2010 > Toyota Camry), so I'm in the market for a scan tool. This is home > garage work, so I'm not looking to invest a fortune, but I'm new to > obd 2. Suggestions? My first suggestion is to get none. Why do you need it? If you have an Apple iX (X = Phone, Pad or Pod), you can get a special cable app that connects to the OBD II computer so you can use the iX device as a OBD 2 scan tool. That might be more useful to you. I think the price is around $100. Jeff
From: dr_jeff on 17 Apr 2010 12:00 dr_jeff wrote: > Frank Rowe wrote: >> Recently acquired two obd-2 compliant vehicles (2003 Audi TT and 2010 >> Toyota Camry), so I'm in the market for a scan tool. This is home >> garage work, so I'm not looking to invest a fortune, but I'm new to >> obd 2. Suggestions? > > My first suggestion is to get none. Why do you need it? > > If you have an Apple iX (X = Phone, Pad or Pod), you can get a special > cable app that connects to the OBD II computer so you can use the iX > device as a OBD 2 scan tool. That might be more useful to you. I think > the price is around $100. > > Jeff I meant to say a special cable and app (application), not cable app. In addition, I forgot to add that you can get a cable and program that will let you use a laptop (either those yucky Windows machines or an Apple Macbook). Jeff
From: Jeff Strickland on 17 Apr 2010 12:42 "Frank Rowe" <r0we'south(a)bell'south.not> wrote in message news:s0mjs59nquusi9llur9s1bilc5b36o3lck(a)4ax.com... > Recently acquired two obd-2 compliant vehicles (2003 Audi TT and 2010 > Toyota Camry), so I'm in the market for a scan tool. This is home > garage work, so I'm not looking to invest a fortune, but I'm new to > obd 2. Suggestions? There are so many to choose from! I would suggest that you can get enough information to work on your own cars at home from a scan tool that costs about $150. You can spend more and get features that only you can know if you will use, and you can spend less and wish you had spent more to get features you would use, but for about $120 ~ $150 you will get a decent mix of useful stuff to match the outflow of dollars.
From: Jeff Strickland on 17 Apr 2010 12:43
"dr_jeff" <utz(a)msu.edu> wrote in message news:kuSdnVUKNLaSRlTWnZ2dnUVZ_o4AAAAA(a)giganews.com... > dr_jeff wrote: >> Frank Rowe wrote: >>> Recently acquired two obd-2 compliant vehicles (2003 Audi TT and 2010 >>> Toyota Camry), so I'm in the market for a scan tool. This is home >>> garage work, so I'm not looking to invest a fortune, but I'm new to >>> obd 2. Suggestions? >> >> My first suggestion is to get none. Why do you need it? >> >> If you have an Apple iX (X = Phone, Pad or Pod), you can get a special >> cable app that connects to the OBD II computer so you can use the iX >> device as a OBD 2 scan tool. That might be more useful to you. I think >> the price is around $100. >> >> Jeff > > I meant to say a special cable and app (application), not cable app. > > In addition, I forgot to add that you can get a cable and program that > will let you use a laptop (either those yucky Windows machines or an Apple > Macbook). > > Jeff For the price of the cable and app, one can get the dedicated tool that does the job. And one can loan the tool to a relative if he wants ... |