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The debate in our shop is whether a $1500 scan tool is worth it for a general repair shop, or if a $400 one does 95% of the same job.
We had a 2017 Ford F-150 with a weird electrical gremlin that the cheaper tool couldn't even see, but the expensive one flagged a specific network module fault in under a minute, saving us probably three hours of guesswork.
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king.wyatt6d ago
Our old $400 scanner just gave up on our 2018 Escape hybrid, flashing a generic "network error" (thanks for nothing). The shop's fancy one pinpointed a failing gateway module in the telematics system, which explained why the car would randomly think it was in Tokyo. I felt pretty silly for the hour I spent checking fuses.
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gavinlopez6d ago
My 2016 Civic's GPS once showed me driving through a cornfield.
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