all right hope everybody's doing okay we are back at the Ford Escape 277 almost 78
000 miles on the clock if you haven't been following the videos uh we repaired a lot of leaks
with this and this is kind of a series of whether you should keep an old car or not it's a 2001
so it is 30 years old is that right no
20. if it's about 22 years old had to think about that for a second
so we went to go get we had a check engine light pop on it's been on and off so we don't know what
the issue is we went to go grab a scanner and Murphy's Law we can't find it we couldn't find
either scanner that we have so we went down to the local Harbor Freight and picked up this
Zurich I think it's pronounced uh OBD2 Bluetooth scanner so it's just like a
little Bluetooth module here it says it can read live data access to bulletins and all that
um there's an app store and there's no cables and you can use your cell phone so we're gonna
get it plugged in and see if this thing can read anything and here it is it's it's tiny
not much to it so we're gonna plug it into the OBD2 port and see what happens all right
we plug the Bluetooth scanner in and open the app it'll go through a few steps to show you how to
hook it up so turn on the Bluetooth on your phone or device this can be a show me where
and it will basically show you where your OBD2 port is
um let's do it by your make and model here let's see we are a Ford
say 2001 now this one is located right by the driver's side uh left foot the
kick panel there so let's see how accurate this is
wow and it shows a picture we're gonna go down there and look and compare this
photo with this photo and see uh that's pretty accurate actually so if you look up in there
right there is the OBD2 thing and then you got your little cable
and your steering arm now look down at this photo that looks exactly like that does right there
let's get a better view there see that you got the little thing there the fuse panels
are everything looks exactly the same so good job on that all right let's continue on
all right done so we've located it Ching on let's continue
all right searching for vehicle we're searching scan tool so it is pairing
sorry for the glare it's very sunny out and the reason why we're recording is
we just want to show you in real time how quick everything hooks up
successfully paired we're going to continue
everything should be coming up here yep and that's our mileage
it's showing 866 but on the dash it's 865 so I'm sure it's over that five Mark let's go ahead and
just do an all Network scan here and this might take a while so we're gonna go ahead and just
stop the recording to save space and we'll come back once it's done all right guys on
this screen you're gonna get a whole host of information um you got one code found now we
did scan this before and erased the code and it came back it was for the gas cap saying the gas
cap was malfunctioning so we'll go check that out after this but as you can see you can get emission
status and it's not ready so let's see what the code says uh engine incomplete Let's uh view all
OBD not ready that was because we cleared the code um let's go back let's go back when you look here
it shows common dashboard lights that pop up gives you your battery status trans fluid temperature
which I don't know if that's accurate but we will come back and check and see if that increases
TSB and recalls so I mean you can go into dealer recalls it has all this information
for free safety recalls um let's look back on some other things upcoming maintenance items
look at that four genuine part number and oil with estimated prices I mean you cannot beat
this for the price this this scanner is is crazy for the price uh let's go to let's look at live
data here record live data let's see what we can get so we can get vehicle speed RPM coolant
sensor load short term and long term that's huge that can help you diagnose a lot of problems with
the vehicle so yeah this scanner for 59 bucks I don't think you're gonna beat it honestly
uh it's it's it looks good see let's go back into the Port here we are
and this is brand new we're just learning how to use this thing so
Port history so we'll go back there it is a lot of back buttons there so yeah so one code was found
uh we're gonna go out there and we're gonna take a look at this gas cap and see how it looks
all right let's look at the condition of this gas cap here and it is quite filthy in there
so yeah if you look at the ceiling now it was a code for evap leak small evap leak
look at that ceiling surface in there and I can smell the fuel and that gasket surface
has probably been chewed up by that dirt for many many years so what we're going
to do is we're going to pop this gas cap out here and we're gonna clean everything
and we're gonna take it for a ride and see if that code comes back and we'll find the um
old report in here and we did notice the transmission fluid temperature is taken
when you scan the vehicle with the scanner and it doesn't update in real time but it does take
the current snapshot as soon as you connect it these were the three codes that we found
and there it was evap fuel cap loose or off
inspect tighten or replace you've seen how dirty it was and let's see if we got some details
I mean this is this thing just gives so much information for the little price that it costs
look at that how much the cast cap cost
all right as you can see it looks much cleaner than it was before we took the gas cap off here
and removed the rubber we washed everything with soap and water cleaned this area with
brake clean now we're gonna put it back on clear the codes one more time and then
we're gonna go drive it for a while and see if this thing actually diagnosed this the
proper way said it was a bad gas cap we've seen there was tons of corrosion and dirt on there
so a little cleanup and let's see if this thing saved us some big money all right
we're in the monitors we reset everything and obviously we have a complete incomplete
EGR system Catalyst evap is where we had the code O2 and heated O2 oh phone went off sorry
and the completed sections are the misfires Fuel and comprehensive component monitoring
not supported is everything else so we really need to get on this type of car you're allowed to
have one of these modules not on so you can have one of these things um not be complete you can't
have a check engine light but one of them can be incomplete and you can still go get emissions done
this year uh prior to 2000 like the 90s I believe you can have two monitors that are incomplete
but you cannot have a check engine light at any time so we're just going to run this car
and wait for all these modules to click off and see if this thing helped us find what was wrong
all right we went about one or two miles and got some fuel we we reset the odometer to zero
and we're gonna go ahead and see what monitors we still have to do and it's still the same exact
all the way around so we're gonna drive it for a little bit and see what happens
all right just in that short little Drive of about let's see
we'll call it six miles because we had a mile there and four and a half back so we'll call it
six miles in six miles we're only left with two of the systems incomplete the Catalyst
which we hope is good at still almost 300 000 miles is the original catalytic converter and
the EVAP system that's what we had a code in originally so we're gonna keep trucking along
and hopefully we can get this emissions test done today all right guys you see
for the EVAP one the original code that we had for the car was an EVAP gas code
but as you can see there that's all that's left I believe we can
go get the emissions done so that's what we're gonna go do we are gonna try and
see if it'll pass all right there we have it the vehicle did pass the emissions test
277 918 all right so our final thoughts on the scanner for 59.99
everything that you get with it the repair Solutions the access to the tsbs the estimated
price and part numbers on parts and items that you would need to repair detailed information
on the repairs the location of the OBD2 port with pictures no cable we really can't find
anything wrong with this for a sub 100 Bluetooth um car scanner it is a little bit slow it's not
as fast as some scanners we use and we've used many scanners over the years but for the home
mechanic or even the entry level mechanic in a small shop this thing would be amazing
and could make you some serious money so I hope this helps thanks for watching please subscribe