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[mason]

Ayup folks,
                  I want to buy a Tec2; I need some advice on which one to get and where to get it from?
Under £100 if poss or do I need to spend more?

A link would be useful.

Thanks,
            mason.

[Markie]

a real Tech II is going to cost you 4 figures - second hand.

A cheapie Tech II (an imitation) can be had for your budget from ebay.

[Big_Roger]

Hi,
There are so many OBD2 scanners about it's a job to know which to choose.

I wanted a stand alone scanner as I don't have a Laptop which some readers need. I took advice on Forum to try and get a scanner that will give live data readings and freeze frame data and supports CAN.

I ended up buying a MaxScan GS500 which does all this and also displays the DTC definitions on screen.     £79.49 from ECUFix delivered free in 2 days. Info on www.auteltech.com

Only had to use once up to now, but seems easy to use.

HTH

Roger

[TheBoy]

Depends what you want to use it for, and on what cars.

If your car is OBDII complaint (2.6/3.2/2.2) then a generic handheld scanner can read engine only.

If you want to read other onboard systems, or car is non ODBII compliant, then a cheap generic scanner is no good.

A real Tech2 costs around £4.5k, and around £1k per year for the software. Obviously, this gives dealer level capablilities.

Opelscanner costs around £300, and is a bit overpriced imho, but capable. Unable to do ecu programming.

Cheapo Tech2 is around £30 and can read most systems, but little else.

[iggy21uk]

Depends what you want to use it for, and on what cars.

If your car is OBDII complaint (2.6/3.2/2.2) then a generic handheld scanner can read engine only.

If you want to read other onboard systems, or car is non ODBII compliant, then a cheap generic scanner is no good.

A real Tech2 costs around £4.5k, and around £1k per year for the software. Obviously, this gives dealer level capablilities.

Opelscanner costs around £300, and is a bit overpriced imho, but capable. Unable to do ecu programming.
Cheapo Tech2 is around £30 and can read most systems, but little else.

Opel scanner  might be a bit expensive for a home user not for a small workshop getting the odd VX in. Since I bought the new USB CAN version with USB interface  which covers 1987 - 2008 [ some modules not covered yet, new models]I have been able to recover some of my outlay, plus points, I can contact the company that make it & software updates have been free.

[mason]

I think cheapo Tec2 is the way to go for me, as I just want to read fault codes and not ecu programming.

Many thank,
                  Mason. [smiley=dankk2.gif]

[TheBoy]

Depends what you want to use it for, and on what cars.

If your car is OBDII complaint (2.6/3.2/2.2) then a generic handheld scanner can read engine only.

If you want to read other onboard systems, or car is non ODBII compliant, then a cheap generic scanner is no good.

A real Tech2 costs around £4.5k, and around £1k per year for the software. Obviously, this gives dealer level capablilities.

Opelscanner costs around £300, and is a bit overpriced imho, but capable. Unable to do ecu programming.
Cheapo Tech2 is around £30 and can read most systems, but little else.

Opel scanner  might be a bit expensive for a home user not for a small workshop getting the odd VX in. Since I bought the new USB CAN version with USB interface  which covers 1987 - 2008 [ some modules not covered yet, new models]I have been able to recover some of my outlay, plus points, I can contact the company that make it & software updates have been free.

I think its not a bad bit of kit.  But it is for diy mech, rather than garage (who will need a generic one), and hence way overpriced.

If they got it under £100, they would sell bucketloads....