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It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
today I'm going to show you how to fix
the insane complexity of modern cars, now realize modern cars almost everything is
run by computers, from the variable valve timing of the engine, to the shifting of
the automatic transmissions, heck even the air conditioning systems are run by
computers, and when it's computer systems break down, as all electronic systems do,
you need to use another computer to analyze and fix them, now of course
there's cheap little scan tools, like this Chinese unit, they can give you a
reasonable amount of information, but if you want
OEM factory level analysis, you need a serious tester, like this auto tester,
because when the check engine light doesn't come on, but the vehicle still
has a problem, you need a machine that can go deep into the electronics and
find where the fault is, now the auto test is a pass-through device, one end
plugs into the data port under the dash and the other end plugs into your laptop,
you just go to the auto test symbol and click on it, and it turns itself on, there
it is, and check out all the makes, it does Chrysler for GM and most of the major
Japanese manufacturers, now it doesn't do European, and here is why, the American
and Japanese manufacturers don't charge that much to let them use their software,
because they build cars they want to be able to get fixed at different places, if
you ask me that's a smart move, why would you want to make a car that's hard to
fix, because then people say I'm not going to buy another one of those it was
to hard to fix, nobody could fix it, but most of European manufacturers think the
opposite, they want to make cars that's hard to get the software for, so you got
to take it to the dealer, and they can rip you off fixing them, they don't want
everybody be able to fix their cars, they have a snob attitude, and that's yet
another reason I advise people to buy Japanese or American cars, instead of
those European money pit machines, now going back to the tool, we'll click on
Honda, because this is a Honda, and it's figured out that it's a 2000
Honda CRV, which is what it is, and now you can get into a whole range of things,
the powertrain, the body control, the chassis control, or the DTC health, when
we click on the health, it automatically test the machine, it's not running
through a bunch of automated tests, see what's going on, and as you can see, it
does some serious checking of all the systems, and at the end, everything
checked ok, which I know because there's no problems with this car anyways, but when
there is a problem, check on powertrain, look at all the choices you got, you can
go through the pgl electronic fuel system, automatic transmission, 4-wheel
Drive system, active torque transfer and drive-by-wire electronic throttle, picked
this up, we'll click on the automatic transmission, it can give you all kinds
of data, diagnostic codes, tests, information on the module, and even a
standard snapshot picture of it, if it's got a problem you can take a picture of
the data and see what's wrong, we'll click on the function here, and as you
can see here, you can actually test the pressure control solenoids inside the
transmission, you're not going to be able to do any of those tests on a cheap scan
tool, this is a serious tool that does serious analysis, and look at all the
data can give you, not only going to give you all this data, it can graph it, it can
record it, and the data itself is broken into sections, let's see you got an AC
problem, you would just click on the AC button, then up pops the relevant AC
information, you know you have to look it up, and if you're working on a really
modern vehicle, like this 2015 Ford EcoBoost pickup truck, you're going to
really need a tool like that, to get the information on the EcoBoost GDI fuel
injection system, and even on the power steering system, because this uses
electronic power steering, it doesn't have a pump, and of course the electronic
power steering is all controlled by computers, so as these modern vehicles
get more and more complex, you need a more complex computer to repair them
with, now I know people are going to whine when I hear the price, this tool
goes for about $2,000, but you got to consider that it does twelve different
manufacturers and a 95% OEM data level, if you bought those OEM equipment, that
would cost you over a hundred thousand dollars, and it's not some cheap Chinese
knockoff, this baby is made in Canada, with legal software, heck my
hockey skates, they were designed in Canada, but even they were made in China,
and hey if you're unsure, and you want to take it for a spin, they got a deal now
you can lease them for 99 bucks a month, to see if you like, them and believe it
or not, these guys actually have a 187 number that they answer and give
technical information that's great, I guess that's a Canadian thing, they care
about what they're doing, so if you're having problems fixing modern cars, you
might want to give one of these Auto test units a try, and remember if you've
got any car questions, just visit the Scotty Kilmer channel and I'll answer
them if I ever get tired of driving this
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