ok decided im fed up with paying other people for diagnostic checks and ive decided to buy something, now i know you get what you pay for so im going to have to seek something sec hand on ebay etc so whats what ?


snap on ones any good?


got maybe £500 to spend is that enough?

 

up

 

£500 is not enouth, up to date snap on scanner with all personality keys will cost you at least a grand second hand, personally I dont rate them as they dont do a lot of the jap or korean stuff,


Dave

 

just seen a perfect one for £900 is tempting

hes local to me and buyer didnt collect
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Snap-on-MT2500...QQcmdZViewItem

 

so any advice from people using snap on scanners?

 

Snap-on one wouldn't connect to my ECU, or ABS...

 

dont snap on do it on interest free ??

J

 

they do but for the above one i can get for £900 used i expect new with all the bits will be 2k

 

i have one and there not bad they do jap crap but its on the last up date! they will only read standerd ecu so if yours is chipped it wont read ! mine stands me at 2 half grand and its a mt2500 you pay a lot mors 4 others that do the same stuff

 

well im still looking for one, but bought myself a nice mileage correction kit last night, hand held jobbie quite impressive, hopefully will bring in some pennys over the months

 

I used to be in the design and development business for two of the
leading code readers in the country for well over 10 years.
Infact I still do some contract software writing for them.

As used by Ford, RAC and AA etc...

Depends what you want to do with it...

What cars, what systems (ABS/ECU/AIRBAG/KEY PROGRAMMING etc..)

I "may" be able to put you on to someone that can give you what you
ever you need for the right price.

 

how much woz the mileage correction kit pal

 

If that question is aimed at me....

The products I was involved with dont do milage adjustment ONLY so cant
comment as this could also be used illegally the option for it was only
ever sold to legitimate SMMT traders.

 

sorry pal it woz 4 ladypants

 

Milage normal £1k its the software that cost same as the magnetic card reader writer

 

yer 1k cash i got it for its the diga consult, basicly dashfixer www.dashfixer.co.uk if you notice his price is £5500 for the kit 2 i got a jap clone for 1k, let me tell you its every bit as good, no difference whatsoever to the real one, cables are all good too, its updateable and can correct cars up to 2007. a hell of a lot of models covered im v impressed what a saving too


the only think you dont get is dashfixers support as you can call them with problems etc, personally id rather pocket £4500 and have the japcrap


yes ok there are a lot of people i will be doing who are clocking cars, but end of day when phone rings i will say i dont clock cars only correct incorrect mileages, end of day if they tell me its wrong and i sort it for them there the one thats lying not me, and technicly its only illeagal once they try to sell it and missrepresent the miles.


i might even get a disclaimer form for them to sign






if you want i can give you the details of the guy hes near bristol i know hes still got a couple left too but if your near southampton bugger off as competition and all that lol


im charging £50 for a straight diagnostic (takes 4 mins) £75 for a cluster correction (have to plug onto the chip) and £100 for a solder jobbie, dont think ill bother with some cars though as saab etc you have to completely remove the eeprom from the board and write it, im not confident enough for that yet

 

if you r after a gud bit of kit get your self a launch x431 fucking top bit of kit ive had 1 for 2 years now there is noting it ont read cost me 3k but i have every 1 coming to me now

 

great kit but i cant afford that sort of money im just going to have to buy a used snap on jobbie i spose