On multi-brand scanners
- Written by James Audley
In recent years, the world market there are many types of multi-branded car diagnostic scanners. From amateur to professional. Ordinary car owner has the ability to buy not expensive device and make a diagnosis of the car itself. What is it for? The motives, goals and methods are different for each car owner. The most common - it is not the desire to seek the service station (especially while traveling) and access them.
Distrust of the "garage professionals." Lack of time long queues at service stations, to analyze and fix a small mistake. Due to the presence of a convenient and compact device EOBD-2 as well as Android-based device with Bluetooth connectivity, you can own to see what happens to the car.
High hopes for such devices is certainly not worth it. Show mechanical problems, which are not controlled by sensors, they can not. And even if such aid is, not all devices can read or correctly interpret their readings. It often depends on the manufacturers of these devices, software, vehicle, and most car owners. The enumeration in the reverse order, even, perhaps, be more correct.
Many years of experience and special education specialists trained in the workshop does not replace any robot, computer, and even more so device for a low price. In the near future for sure. All this is some tool in the hands of a man and nothing more. Only to find such experts is not possible. Even on eminent service centers there are unscrupulous employees, after which the car is working even less than it would be with a malfunction. Or after who there are more failures than they really are, especially expensive.
It was during such doubts and help these handheld scanners. If auto electronics error or other fault serious, fix themselves. If it is serious and nothing is clear, we turn to the service station. The main thing not to do is even worse.
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