OBD diagnostic gizmo BIG SPEND

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Alright gang,

 

I have got a little bit of money available to waste on shite matters, and rather than buying yet another car, I am thinking of splurging it on an OBD dignostic tool. I don't want one of these cheapy marque-specific ebay things that require you to load some software on an old windows laptop etc then fanny on for hours fathoming out whats wrong with your ELM cable or whatever.

 

I am umming and ahhing about going all-out and putting £400 into one of these:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foxwell-Pro-NT644-ALL-System-Diagnostic-Scanner-Scan-Tool-Light-Reset-EPB-Colour-/161932241224

 

 

Obv thats a bit of a rash purchase for someone whose fleet is mostly 80's and 90's crap. Probably the Gooner is the only car I have that it will work on, but I figure it will only get more and more useful as post-2000 stuff comes onto my shite radar and I imagine when word gets round the office that I have such a thing, I might get the odd character popping up wanting a diagnosis in exchage for a few beers etc. Obv trusted shiters local to me could use it too. Has anyone got one of these? Do I sound like I have got more money than sense? (I haven't got a lot of money). Or does anyone have any better suggestions?

 

Cheers, Keith_Plumstones

 

 

 

 

[Kiltox]

Delphi DS150 knock off from China via aliexpress

 

50 quid. add a laptop or £40 Windows tablet from Amazon and you're banging

[purplebargeken]

A T4 setup would have all the Rover/MG lickers wanting to have much of the sex thing with you.

 

Maybe not then. 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I would like to have Rover diagnistic skills, but the T4 set-up seems redundant when you can get Dieselnutjob's Rover diagnostic doofus for £150

[omegod]

Very handy if they can reset airbag lights, read transmission codes, add keys , cheap shit ones never can !  I have opcom if any North West Vauhall owners need fiddling doing

[Cavcraft]

How many leads do you get with it? Pretty sure a lot are different so won't fit some makes, meaning more expense. My lad has a BluePoint (or whatever those Snap-on things are) which is really good, but are probably about £11,000.

[overrun]

I have a 100 quid Launch jobber. Resets 6 systems, so does airbag and ABS too.

Can't look past it for teh muney imo.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/301878669460

[cobblers]

Delphi DS150 knock off from China via aliexpress

 

50 quid. add a laptop or £40 Windows tablet from Amazon and you're banging

You can get them via the UK too, I use one at work, it's flippin decent.

We only bought it as a "trial" for buying a proper one for £1500 or something, so it'll be coming home with me once we do.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Thats three votes for this system, its looking quite favourable

[Shep Shepherd]

If you can justify the cost and can get at least a modicum of use from it, I'd say go for it. You can always sell it on if it becomes surplus to requirements.

 

I bought a genuine GM Tech 2 for just under £400 in January to assist in my Saab shenanigans, and since then it has been useful beyond measure for diagnosing problems, reading/clearing stored fault codes and adjusting settings on several 9-5s, not just my own.

 

What's more, I have the pre-2012 Vauxhall diagnostic software for it, which makes it even more useful

[DaveAspley]

I use the Wurth branded version of the delphi, cost £145 with discs, laptop, interface, the lot. Even came with Auto data loaded on. Well worth it, can do EVERYTHING

[robthedonkey]

Dieselnutjobs rover system is what and where exactly???

 

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[Kiltox]

I use the Wurth branded version of the delphi, cost £145 with discs, laptop, interface, the lot. Even came with Auto data loaded on. Well worth it, can do EVERYTHING

'Kinell that's a bargain!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

http://www.pscan.eu/buy/

[DaveAspley]

This seller on eBay, mine has been spot on in the 2 years I've had it. They've gone up to 170 now though

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Professional-Car-Truck-Diagnostics-Laptop-Airbag-abs-regen-much-more-/252514238686?hash=item3acb0580de%3Ag%3AXsQAAOSw-jhULWzn&_trkparms=pageci%253A9a36c654-6d54-11e6-9a96-74dbd180d9e7%257Cparentrq%253Ad2995cab1560a2af652796d3fff9900a%257Ciid%253A5

[twosmoke300]

As a garage I have to be careful as trading standards do visit and check your software . Knock off autodata is one of their main targets apparantly

[SiC]

DS150. Gonna be your best bet to get coverage cheaply. Doesn't do everything that brand only tools do, but does read+clear error codes on them.

 

Def a AutoShiter must.

[SiC]

This seller on eBay, mine has been spot on in the 2 years I've had it. They've gone up to 170 now though

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Professional-Car-Truck-Diagnostics-Laptop-Airbag-abs-regen-much-more-/252514238686?hash=item3acb0580de%3Ag%3AXsQAAOSw-jhULWzn&_trkparms=pageci%253A9a36c654-6d54-11e6-9a96-74dbd180d9e7%257Cparentrq%253Ad2995cab1560a2af652796d3fff9900a%257Ciid%253A5

A lot of money for an old laptop and pirated software imo.

[Kiltox]

A lot of money for an old laptop and pirated software imo.

Decent working DS150 interface will cost £50-£80

Laptop £50

 

Not much of a premium to get it set up for you

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah I thought that seemed good VALU myself, its very tempting i must say

[saucedoctor]

Looks a steal.

 

Is the DS150 interface necessary to make the Delhpi software work? That is to say, can you use a boggo ELM327 and get limited functions, or will the ELM just not work at all?

 

(Sorry for the hijack Herr Boll)

[SiC]

You need a ds150. Elm327 no good with the Delphi software.

 

A elm327 v1.4/v1.5 is worth having around and keeping in the glovebox though imo.

[beko1987]

I bought a knockoff lexia when I had the xm and never got it to work, gave it to someone on here years ago.

 

Half tempted to try again now I have the xantia but have no need at the moment are there any decent systems out there now?

[Kiltox]

I bought a knockoff lexia when I had the xm and never got it to work, gave it to someone on here years ago.

Half tempted to try again now I have the xantia but have no need at the moment are there any decent systems out there now?

I have one I bought from Aliexpress - BASTARD to set up but once working its grand

[cobblers]

Rather than use an old laptop you can buy a new chinese windows 10 tablet for about 50 quid that's fairly likely to have a working battery etc, eg:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Viglen-Connect-8-9-Windows-10-Tablet-With-MS-Office-Mobile-Intel-Atom-32GB-HDD-/152175799857?hash=item236e626e31:g:kPUAAOSwSv1XkNIf

[beko1987]

Jeez thats cheap! My main issue with my lexia thing was connecting it to acomputer

 

Win 7 32 and 64 bit it hates

XP 32 and 64 bit it hated

Win 2000 it hated

 

All on a fairly new probook

 

I bought a shit win98 laptop from the car boot that it ran on, but so slow it timed out constantly

 

Does the modern software run on win 10 now?

[Kiltox]

Diagbox works in win10 and I run Lexia/PP2000 in a XP VM on the same machine

[dave21478]

I have one I bought from Aliexpress - BASTARD to set up but once working its grand

 

Aye, mine was via ebay and the installation instructions need to be followed exactly. its a faff of installing a bit, re-starting the laptop, doing this, clicking that, entering this code here, needs to be online at this point but offline at that point etc etc, but once done its been fine. Actually pretty handy.

Its on Win7 starter edition 32 bit on a netbook. It was very slow originally but I upgraded to a SSD and extra ram which sorted it out.

 

I have been vagualy considering something diagnostic-wise for a while. Like Bollo says, its only going to become more and more useful as moderns fall into the shite category.

 

That laptop deal looks ok to me. Autodata is very handy to have....all the diagnostic stuff it has, I could put my Lexia on it too, and anything else I can blag/download/steal and just use it as a dedicated diagnostic machine, or buy a new home laptop and use this one as a diagnostic, just buy the interface and get the other software elsewhere.

[garethj]

And there's me thinking I was sophisticated owning a dwell meter.

[philibusmo]

I know it's not as fancy, but does anyone have much experience with a cheap Chinese OBD2 Bluetooth adapter and Torque on an Android phone? Is it worth a go for reading occasional codes and turning off warning lamps once mended? Currently needed for a 2001 Astra.