My one suggestion would be to get more brake fluid than you think you’ll need. I went through an embarrassing amount given the large reservoir and (frankly) ease of having the computer do the lifting. HTH
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I got 5 bottles of fresh. Enough or nah?
I've got time either today or tomorrow
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I think so. TBH, that reservoir is impressive compared to some of the other Asian cars I did today. Also, hook up your battery to a tender. This pump running/door opened/ignition “on” (not engine running) stuff seems to have punished my battery. It was sluggish to start and is being trickle charged now.
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Thanks.
Yeah. I learned that the hard way when first messing with the tool and trying to figure out the tilt column and other things. Needed my jump pack to get it restarted. Oops
Next weekend might work as well
Seems like it’s sold out on scamazon? Was hoping for a Prime Day deal…
There is a listing for the "Elite" model. Not sure what is different but shows in stock for $119
Has anyone successfully used this to program the unlock button on the remote to open the windows? The previous owner did not request to turn this on from the dealer.
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Not with my LC, I don’t want that.
But we used my tool to do that with my friends 2024 4Runner and it worked easily
The OG model reference by this thread was also “elite” with the cheaper model you reference being in portrait orientation vs landscape. Not sure the actual difference…
I bought this version of it and was able to program a bunch of different things. Disabled auto steering wheel tilt on power off, auto window unlock by remote press, disabling the moonroof opening during that unlock, one press unlock all doors. I did "successfully" set the double press to open the tailgate - but this didn't work. I still had to hold the button on the remote for the auto tailgate. Same thing with my attempt at disabling the DRLs. It also produced a nice health check report and pulled a bunch of DTC codes with explanation. It is able to email the report, which is just a URL on their site. Very satisfied with the price and feature set. Supposedly free lifetime updates as well - we'll see.
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Big Thanks to @GrouchyTech for posting this, as the FSM isn’t all that clear.
@badsamaritan and I did this last weekend and it’s a NIGHT AND DAY improvement on my truck and the pedal feel is now exactly what I expect it should be.
I had previously done the caliper bleeding 5x without improvement
Using the tool and the “air bleed function” made a night and day difference. My guess is there was air somewhere in the master cylinder, but not sure
Anyway, much happier now
I’ve seen this portrait one (I see that it’s Elite 2025 version now) and the landscape one that they they call “2025 Elite 2.0” Amazon.com - https://a.co/d/7Hh8fSx
Still ain’t got a clue on what the hell the differences are supposed to be?
Edit: here’s the differences between the models: What is the difference between Launch Creader Elite 2.0 and other Launch Creader tools? - https://www.x431tool.com/service/what-is-the-difference-between-launch-creader-elite-2.0-and-other-launch-creader-tools.html
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big improvement in mine as well. I did a regular bleed with @Boston Mangler and then did the "Air Bleed" function on all 4 wheels a couple of times and the most noticeable improvements happened there. Really glad this worked out as I have a huge road trip coming up and was leery of driving it that far until this was fixed.
You never returned it for another one?Mine is still just an expensive code reader.
