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A chat with a retired tech made me stop using my old scan tool
He said 'that thing can't see half the network faults on a 2016 or newer car, you're just guessing.' I realized I've been wasting time on diag for months. Anyone else find their gear just got too old too fast?
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troyh551mo ago
Yeah, that's the brutal truth with modern cars. Time for a subscription scan tool, they update for new network faults.
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piperr5829d ago
and seriously @harper_wright that's exactly the kind of wake up call i needed. my 2012 scan tool will read a check engine light but throw a code for a random abs module that doesn't exist anymore. then it just sits there like it did its job. newer cars have like 50 different modules talking to each other and my old gear just stares at them. feels like i was literally fixing problems that weren't even there half the time.
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