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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: tag on June 22, 2012, 04:33:23 PM

Title: New scanner
Post by: tag on June 22, 2012, 04:33:23 PM: Bought a VW/AUDI code reader , same company as the one i bought for the jeep,, very pleased, think they are a chinese
ripoff
of one a lot more expensive ? :icon_winkle:
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Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: jarekjeep on September 11, 2012, 12:03:12 AM: need to scan my xj. can you help and how much? or where have you bought it?
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: gazjeep on September 11, 2012, 07:11:23 AM: http://www.amazon.co.uk/CAN-Bus-Trouble-Diagnose-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B001CBBY7O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347343787&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/CAN-Bus-Trouble-Diagnose-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B001CBBY7O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347343787&sr=8-1)

Have a look on ebay they might be cheaper. I got one of these after being recomended by a fellow Birty

Its simple & it works :icon_winkle:
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: JamesH on September 11, 2012, 01:09:43 PM: I have an ELM327 interface from eBay - bluetooth one. With this and the Torque app and others that are availalbe for android and apple you can do most stuff. If you already have a smart phone, pad or laptop this could be the cheapest route -the ELM327 was less than £15 and comes with software. You can see fancy graphics of your engine data and even time 0-60 and 1/4 miles :icon_twisted:
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: bigjeepzj on September 11, 2012, 01:23:31 PM: :iagree: thats what I got
works well
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: tag on September 11, 2012, 06:19:00 PM: Thease are brilliant real time sensor function, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/V600-VGATE-CAR-FAULT-CODE-DIAGNOSTIC-SCANNER-TOOL-ODBII-EOBD-CAN-BUS-/140670110839?p (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/V600-VGATE-CAR-FAULT-CODE-DIAGNOSTIC-SCANNER-TOOL-ODBII-EOBD-CAN-BUS-/140670110839?p)
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: jarekjeep on September 11, 2012, 09:59:33 PM: thanx. im afraid i just need single scan. im not too technical. maybe somebody not to far from london have some spare time to scan my xj for... open to offers. just dont want to buy toys which i can not really use.
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: JamesH on September 12, 2012, 07:37:19 AM: Kwik-Fit can do a diagnostic scan for you for about £35
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: gazjeep on September 12, 2012, 09:28:32 AM: The one I posted link to is very easy to use, not brain surgery ..... very simple.

Plug in, read codes, delete codes if you want ..... simples :greggmo:
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: MOCAJ on September 12, 2012, 01:10:52 PM: i was the one who recomended to Gaz, its simple and well worth £16 :icon_biggrin:
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: gazjeep on September 12, 2012, 06:36:58 PM: Yep, bloody good steer in that direction from MOCAJ :icon_winkle:

It must be simple if me & him can use it :003:
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: cheese_aholic on September 12, 2012, 07:22:59 PM: Quote from: gazjeep on September 11, 2012, 07:11:23 AM
http://www.amazon.co.uk/CAN-Bus-Trouble-Diagnose-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B001CBBY7O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347343787&sr=8-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/CAN-Bus-Trouble-Diagnose-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B001CBBY7O/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347343787&sr=8-1)

Have a look on ebay they might be cheaper. I got one of these after being recomended by a fellow Birty

Its simple & it works :icon_winkle:
Work on a 97 TJ?
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: gazjeep on September 12, 2012, 07:25:28 PM: Should do, I think one of Steve's is a 97 & it works on our January 98 & however old Cockney Boys is :icon_winkle:

HTH
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: cheese_aholic on September 12, 2012, 07:29:29 PM: Thanks Gaz. If I'd not been a lazy bastard and actually read the description on the link, I'd have seen " Petrol cars in the USA made for sale 1996 onwards".... :jpshakehead:
Title: Re: New scanner
Post by: Bulldog67 on September 12, 2012, 07:37:35 PM: cheapest on the bay (in the UK)