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The Best Tool in the Box, OBDII Scanner

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Old 08-30-2007, 03:26 PM
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Default The Best Tool in the Box, OBDII Scanner

Having an OBDII vehicle it's hard for me to be without this tool.
It works on all OBDII vehicles and can really tell you whats going on inside.
I recommend anyone who likes to wrench their on rides to get one.
I've had mine for over a year and don't know how I got along this far without one.



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how much was it?
 
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Group buy was about $150-160ish
 
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do you have more info on it...like a website maybe. i would like to look at the details of it.
 
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do you have more info on it...like a website maybe. i would like to look at the details of it.
It's in image 1
www.autoenginuity.com
 
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Are you able to tune your engine with that? Like using a hypertech? Where did you get it for 160? I see it at 249
 
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Are you able to tune your engine with that? Like using a hypertech? Where did you get it for 160? I see it at 249
No you can't tune through it.
It was a GROUP BUY on the Mazda3 forum.
I would not have paid $249 for it.
Make sure you are looking a the base tool, you can get it specific for certian cars to trigger any of their sensors individually for more $$.
 
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There's a free one here:
http://www.obd-2.com/#order

You can download a free working copy. It is not as pretty, but does the same thing. The dashboard function is pretty cool. You will need to buy a obd2>serial cable or a obd2>usb cable. These can be bought off of ebay pretty cheap. I'm sure any program that you buy would come with one.

The above program has sample data logs that you can run and watch the sensors and virtual dashboard do thier thing.
 
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Is there anything that would allow you to change the programing yourself? Kind of like a mega squirt but using your existing pcm?
 
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These people have a couple of different options:
http://www.sctflash.com/index.php

You can either buy the flash tuner and the software and tune it yourself, or you can buy the flash tuner and take it to a dyno tuner and have him load the tunes onto the flasher. The flash tuner will hold four program at a time; the original and three others. The SCT software is widly used by shops with dynos.
 

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