OBD Scanner Recommedations

[black_camel]

Hello,

Can any of you make any recommendations on OBD scanning tools for fault diagnostics?

I was looking at purchasing the Mercedes Carsoft 7.4 kit from ebay.

Thanks,
Neil

 

[SCLASS1]

hi
did you get one ? can you recomend it?

 

[jibcl500]

Waste of money, I went down that route and then paid £2000 for the proper kit.

jib

 

[simo911]

hi all
i was looking at this kit as well . why was it a waste of money
thanks simon

 

[vijilants]

Its not a waste of money. A "friend" of mine has it, and purchased the multiplexer and cables from a company in china.

Total cost about £120 all in all.

For that you can scan the ecu and reset codes and do adaptive resets aswell.

By far a lot cheaper than taking your car to get a scan done at £50 a go.

 

[dragon]

Its not a waste of money. A "friend" of mine has it, and purchased the multiplexer and cables from a company in china.

Total cost about £120 all in all.

For that you can scan the ecu and reset codes and do adaptive resets aswell.

By far a lot cheaper than taking your car to get a scan done at £50 a go.

How did your friend read the error codes from memory if it detected a fault said PSE?

 

[roofless]

Waste of money, I went down that route and then paid £2000 for the proper kit.

jib

thats proper kit for 2k but is it poss to get a basic tool for the diy user for say £150

 

[dragon]

As Psmart pointed out, it a total waste of your dosh unless you are a business mechanic to dish out £2K for these tools. Belgian stuff are never good except Belgian chocs, that is also bad for your cardiac.

I worked on ATM and interfaced with RS232 devices, they are damn simple programming in C++/VB as long as you know the functional specification of these devices. These diagnostic kit should not be more than £50.

Yes, Malcolm you can reset these error codes everyday but it will drain your battery really fast as it takes half an hour to perform the complete tests. Some are redundant devices you don't have in your car and the software spent 90% of the time interrogating and established communication with non-existent devices. A complete digital test diagnosis runs about 20 tests, but you got only 5 of these devices.

 

[roofless]

this has to be crap at this price or do you know better http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/EOBD-CAN-BUS-...14&_trkparms=72:1301|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318

 

[dragon]

Go for this one, I know it works in XP. Find someone in UK to save you VAT and duty as extra and transit delay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...rkparms=algo=CRX&its=S%2BI&itu=UCI%2BSI&otn=4

This also works but it hasn't got complete digital/analogue multiplexed tests to give an overview which modules are at fault, then you run the known failed tests. You have to run individual tests to find which are at fault.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...0278160063&sspagename=STRK:MEDWX:IT&viewitem=