rev up your engines, welcome to mechanic
Monday, where I try out actual car
products and the ones that pass my test
I make videos about them and then I give
the product away to one of you YouTube
viewers, now today's video is about
the best cheapest obd2 scanned tool for
do-it-yourself guys and as you can see
inside here, I have boxes and boxes of
scan tools, so I tested out a whole bunch
of them and as far as I'm concerned
this Creader $24 scan
tool is the best cheapest one for
do-it-yourself guys, it's easy to use you
just plug it into the OBD port down here
then just turn the key on, so the idiot
lights are on but the car isn't running
and it automatically sets itself up
we'll click diagnose, there it is reading
a computer of your car and it's already
figured out what car it is you don't
have to input anything and you can start
reading the data and as you can see you
can read codes you can erase codes you
can see if it'll pass the emissions test
for yearly state inspection, you can get
live data stream you can do freeze-frame
when there's a trouble code to figure
out what's wrong you can even do an
oxygen sensor test and on this older
Toyota it does 38 different points of
data so you can analyze what's wrong
with your car, you can read maf sensor
data and fuel trim data to see if the
car is running rich or lean and on this
car you can even do the vapor pressure
to see if you have a problem the evap
anti-pollution system and of course if
your check engine light is on, it can
read the codes in this case it's reading
the code now it's got P0507 it explains
what the code is in this case the idle
air control system the RPM is higher
than expected and then it can show you
the freeze frame data of when that code
was stored here we go here's all the
data of when the freeze frame was stored so
you can analyze it and find out what the
problem is and of course once you fix it
you could turn the trouble code off, here
we go now it's erasing the codes it's
doing its little job takes a few seconds
and now the code has been cleared and if
you check it, it'll show there are no
codes we'll check read codes again to
make sure it worked
now it's thinking, and there it is there's
no trouble codes it's erased them, all in all
it's a pretty good tool for only $24
it's made by a company launch, it's been
around a long time, so it's not like it's
some new company that's messing with
new software because many of the cheaper
scan tools that I tried out they didn't
even work when you plugged it in or you
plug it in and you got absurd data on the
screen and then if you read inside the
system when you went through itm it would
say things likem oh if you find problems
with software please email us and tell
us what the problem ism hey I don't want
that when I'm buying a scan tool I want one that
actually works and give me the data that
I want now, the Creader is a very low
price scan tool for DIY guys and of
course it's not gonna do everything, for
example the Zurich
ZR13 is $199 scan tool, it can actually
do abs problems on your car, airbag
problems, it can check your alternator
and battery, but it's $199 for 24 dollars
the Creader is a very good DIY scan
tool, now if you do your research you get
what you pay for, this $24 one is great for $24
this $199 one hey it's actually
great for $199 but it's not $24 either
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