looking for a recommendation for a code scanner
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Have odbLink LX bluetooth unit off amazon for years with android phone and torque app. Allows me to move from car to car quickly. Also using bluetooth allows you to monitor car while up around the engine working on it. 10 plus years using one of these and never had a car i couldn't access. They used to be in high $40 and only worked with android. New ones are $80 range and work both with apple and android. May explain the cost increase
Snap On supported the MT2500 up until 2009 with software updates, that last software update included all 2009 model year cars and trucks.
If you search you can still find can adapters for it on EBay, the can adapter is needed to use it on some newer model cars and trucks.
As for using the MT2500 on a obd2 80 series land cruiser, why yes it'll work great, you can use it to watch live streaming data.
It may be an older scan tool, but it was a professional level tool that a lot of shops used for years.
Snap On even made a later model of the MT2500 that had color graphics, along with a built in engine scope.
EBay and Craig's list are great places to search for used ones.
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I might have missed something related to my search for info on a 1996 lx450 scanner. I have an obd2 inside left dash, and a diagnostic port in the hood also. I think that's a 22 pin (obd1)? Not sure. But I can't get anyone to tell me why I have a blinking airbag light flashing from start up. Also have a abs light that turns on shortly after I start driving it.
Any info on what tool can tell me where the problem is specifically instead of trying to clean and test everything?
Any info on what tool can tell me where the problem is specifically instead of trying to clean and test everything?
Step 1: Go up to the resources section and download the Factory Service Manual. It's free and it's a hell of a resource.
I won't swear to it, but I don't THINK OBDII was tied into the ABS system on these rigs. I believe the ABS diagnostics codes are retrieved by installing a jumper, which will trigger the light to flash a code sequence. It should be in that manual.
Just as an update to my post 3 years ago, If you're looking to buy a used Snap On MT2500 scanner try and find it with the last generation of programmable troubleshooter cards. Snap on Came out with these cards sometime in the early 2000's, and stopped offering updates for them around 2009.
So if you can find a set that were last updated in 2009 you can work on any car made in 2009 and back to the early 1980's. I would just like to point out one thing, IIRR around 2007 some car makers went to what is called a Can network for the ECM, so on those cars you'll need an extra adapter called a Can adapter in order to get this scanner to work on those cars.
These were the last cards offered by Snap ON for the MT2500, and were re programmable each year on the tool truck for a fee with all the latest car info on them for all the new domestic, and import car models. The nice thing about these cards, unlike the older ones, they came with all the codes for transmissions, brakes and ABS systems.
With the older cards you needed to buy a new troubleshooter card each year at extra expense to cover transmission codes, brake and ABS codes for both domestic, and import cars on top of buying the primary troubling shooting card too.
The first photo below shows what the last generation of programmable interface and troubleshooter cards looked like, and the the lower photo shows the older non programmable domestic, and import primary and troubleshooter interface cards.
So if you can find a set that were last updated in 2009 you can work on any car made in 2009 and back to the early 1980's. I would just like to point out one thing, IIRR around 2007 some car makers went to what is called a Can network for the ECM, so on those cars you'll need an extra adapter called a Can adapter in order to get this scanner to work on those cars.
These were the last cards offered by Snap ON for the MT2500, and were re programmable each year on the tool truck for a fee with all the latest car info on them for all the new domestic, and import car models. The nice thing about these cards, unlike the older ones, they came with all the codes for transmissions, brakes and ABS systems.
With the older cards you needed to buy a new troubleshooter card each year at extra expense to cover transmission codes, brake and ABS codes for both domestic, and import cars on top of buying the primary troubling shooting card too.
The first photo below shows what the last generation of programmable interface and troubleshooter cards looked like, and the the lower photo shows the older non programmable domestic, and import primary and troubleshooter interface cards.
