Be aware that these low priced scanners can only do. The most basic tasks. You’d need to spend a lot more to get one with the sophistication of the ones that a professional shop would use.
What scanner to invest in can depend on your skill level and age of vehicles. Recent model year may need a modern, advanced, expensive scanner to handle all the electronic modules in them, but older vehicles, 9 times out of 10 you just need to pull an OBD code or watch some realtime data.
This reader claims it can do (some) realtime data, but you ought to seek some youtube video reviews if you need details about that functionality or reading manufacturer specific codes outside the OBD2 code set.
For those who like to do everything with their phone (lol), there are a few OBD2, ELM327 based dongles out there that are decent, but also some that won't work with vehicles older than canbus era (mid-'00s) despite claiming otherwise.
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This reader claims it can do (some) realtime data, but you ought to seek some youtube video reviews if you need details about that functionality or reading manufacturer specific codes outside the OBD2 code set.
For those who like to do everything with their phone (lol), there are a few OBD2, ELM327 based dongles out there that are decent, but also some that won't work with vehicles older than canbus era (mid-'00s) despite claiming otherwise.
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