Re: [Amc-list] OBD II Scan tools

[Russell Neyhart <rtneyhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good Morning David,

    I have a small hand-held one that just gives me the code which I 
look up in the service manual and start my troubleshooting from there.  
It makes it handy for those troubleshooting tasks that cannot be easily 
seen or heard.  I'd like a more expensive one that actually gives me the 
name of the component that caused the code to be generated, but it's a 
small inconvenience to look it up.  It's fine for what I use it for (to 
'03 vehicles from the General).  The scanner is an Actron that I bought 
at the local Advance Auto.  You can get it to read OBD-I and OBD-II, 
probably others, but I only needed OBD-II.

Regards,

Russ (from Pa.)

David Crooks wrote:
> Ok, so the last AMC rolled off the assembly line before OBD II was  
> born, but....
>
> I'm in the market for a scan tool.  I haven't decided on going the  
> laptop/software/adapter route, or the all in one handheld style, and  
> am looking for comments/suggestions from anybody out there who owns  
> one.  What you like, what you hate, that sort of thing.
>
> I'm leaning towards the lap top type solution, because (at least in  
> theory) it would be easier to update to new model cars are required....
>
> Dave
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