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I acquired this nice diagnostic tablet a few weeks ago. It's an Autel MaxiCOM Mk908 that includes a MaxiFlash Elite J2534 programmer.

Just used it for the first time today pulling a code for a check engine light on my son's Jeep before he headed back to school today. Fortunately it was just a bad gas cap causing the code.

It's a very versatile tool that has a lot of capabilities and it's very easy to use once it is set up.

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Fortunately it was just a bad gas cap causing the code.
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I bought a Bluedriver OBDII Port scan tool that interfaces with an Ipad from Amazon.
It has come in handy a couple times to reset codes and diagnose a some problems.
Yours sure looks like it will do a whole lot more and a lot more detailed.
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bigfelipe said:
What's a doohickey like that go for?
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Cheap if you like to fiddle with OBD II vehicles and reprogram their ECU after working on them yourself and not paying someone else to do it for you.

Very expensive, as @Mike Overlay pointed out above, if you just use it for pulling codes.
 
SilvrSRT10 said:
I bought a Bluedriver OBDII Port scan tool that interfaces with an Ipad from Amazon.
It has come in handy a couple times to reset codes and diagnose a some problems.
Yours sure looks like it will do a whole lot more and a lot more detailed.
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I have this one too. Been really useful over the years in a number of vehicles.
 
The OBD has insured that there are very few real mechanics left. I bought a &78 Ranchero thinking that it would be easy to keep going, right? The reality is that mechanics have forgotten how to diagnose problems without having a calculator to tell them which parts to swap out.
 
Been using autoenginuity for years on my powerstroke but I only have the "ford bundle"

Does this work on all makes and models for triggering sensors and other advanced OBD stuff?


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the bluetooth OBD-II scanners are cheap enough to do alot more than my $59 HFT scanner. I don't need to edit anything just wanna know why or how I need to fix whatever is gonna keep my car from being inspected.

Those tools look great in a proprietary software kind of way.
 
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SilvrSRT10 said:
I bought a Bluedriver OBDII Port scan tool that interfaces with an Ipad from Amazon.
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Man these things are great. This past weekend I was driving up to Virginia with a buddy when my beater car stopped downshifting correctly. I leave the OBDII scanner plugged in so I had him scan the codes while we're driving.

I went in to a forum for that car and did a site search for the code and found the most likely fix, a TPS sensor. Stopped at a parts store on the way and boom, we were done.

I know proper troubleshooting doesn't mean throwing parts at a problem, but if I can drop $30 on a gamble and be back on the road in literally 5 minutes I'm gonna do it!
 
Wow. That thing looks serious, not to mention smarter than me too.
 
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