Spent $600 on a Snap-on scanner and it barely works for my older trucks

I bought a Snap-on Ethos Edge last year to diagnose a 2001 Cummins ISB and it couldn't even read half the parameters I needed. The thing froze up three times before I gave up and borrowed a buddy's old Matco scanner. Anyone else dropped serious cash on a high end tool that just didn't deliver for your vintage diesels?

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spencer_hayes7122d ago

My buddy bought that same scanner and it crashed on his old Ford 7.3 after five minutes.

blairj5522d ago

and honestly that tracks with my luck too. I got one of those a couple years ago and it worked great on my neighbor's gasser but the second I plugged it into my old 6.0 it just gave me a bunch of error codes I couldn't even read. maybe it's just me but I swear old diesel trucks hate anything with a screen. I'm pretty sure my '94 7.3 would rather I just read the smoke signals coming out of the exhaust.