rev up your engines, in my never-ending quest to find interesting and useful car
products for your car there's some great products that I've discovered it took a
long time to test this stuff and as usual nobody's paying me to talk about
it I got all kinds of products in the garage I try them out, some people get mad at me
cuz their products are junk, some like these win and they're probably really
happy, it's called SUV door step and that's exactly what it does now I got a
tiny SUV here of course you need it more for a bigger one but this is just
demonstration real simple you open the door then go to the latch then there
is, then you need to get to the top of the SUV like this solid as can be if you
got a roof rack you want to polish the top and wax it you can easily do it with
this little cool step not cheaply made solid metal and you can see it's got the
rubber so it isn't gonna hurt the paint I mean really it goes on the inside pay
to the door who's looking in there but it protects it because it's all rubber
they're nice and solid, now people always ask me Scotty what about those little
car analytics that plug into your obd part and then use your phone to get
information well i tested a whole bunch of them out took me a couple of years
really these are just some of the ones i tested out and really by far and above
the winner is the blue driver now the blue driver is 99 bucks but you get your
money's worth i tried out scores of the cheaper ones
they don't do anywhere near what this did some of them didn't even work some
of them had some of the worst apps on the planet that wouldn't even
interface with my phone but not only did the blue driver work well these canadian
guys that design them they keep upgrading them last year it had hundreds
of upgrades and speaking of upgrades i got an upgraded phone too I tested a
bunch of phones out know I've got very little against my samsung that
I've used for a while this phone it's one of these armored 6e's this
thing costs two hundred and eight dollars brand-new this cost me $800 new
and this phone hey that's what I use now when I use them on cars cuz it
is an armored phone it's much more armored than the Samsung I dropped this
thing when I was working on a truck fell down about oh four feet didn't damage it
at all stuck it in a bucket for a couple hours and that's a bucket full of water
so you have to worry about it getting what if you're working on cars it's got
a two lens camera there's all kinds of stuff but it's really good for using
analytical software for working on your car and yeah I try not a lot of these
chinese-made phones some of them were absolute garbage they'd freeze up when I
was using it to read data they couldn't read the line data this thing works
perfectly fine it works just as well if not better than my samsung it cost like
three times with this thing cost watch this will get the blue driver plug it in
and between the sophistication of this phone and a blue driver all you have to
do is scan the VIN number then it immediately knows what your car is as
you can see here it's red the VIN number and then we click on it there's the
specifications gives you all the information about your car and even
cooler and check this out it's got recalls ice s very few recalls just one
two three four and even more interesting service bulletins shows you all the
things that are known about the model for repairing them look at this look at
the list it shows you the list of all kinds of things now being a professional
mechanic of course I have access to all these technical service bulletins but
that's a service that costs me $1,400 a year this you pay 99 bucks for the whole
thing they updated free forever and you get that same information and of
course it does live dad thoughts all kinds of the information I mean if you
want to get a cheaper one it doesn't do that much but if you're serious about
working on your own car this blue driver is a good app that works on all the car
sold in the United States so hey this thing is useful for a long time I got
really cheap when you get something really for 99 bucks and the same thing with
the armored phone hey this thing's even set up for people that are really
professional when you pull out this little silver piece here it's got a slot
for two SIM cards so you could have two separate phone lines on the same phone
you could have one for business and one for pleasure I do that but I have two
separate phones for that in the past now if you're really serious about working
on your own car this is what's called a breakout box and this particular one is
made by obd2 cables com and yet again I tried out a whole bunch of these I tried
out once it cost three times with this cost that were over $300 but just one
hey it was $90 really solid cable the cheaper ones I tried out the cables were jump
they'd fray they'd break so it's got a lot of metal in it's not plastic junk
like any scan till you get to working in and you plug it into the OBD port
there it is and as you can see it's workings reading all the data but while
you're doing the data now you can actually test things at the same time
it's all listed chassis scrounged signal ground voltage from battery all you need
it's a test light you can test all kinds of things that way no more cutting wires
or piercing them will you get moisture in that can ruin electricity later these
computers hey they don't use much voltage and they don't use much amperage
there's not much power in it the breakout box you can test to your
heart's content and realize you're not gonna damage anything now sure this
breakout box it's a pretty complex thing and you got a little bit about cars to
work on them but if you're serious about working on cars do like I did, go on Amazon
buy the $90 one don't buy the $300 one I've been using this thing for quite some
time solid reliable basically just wires
anyways it's not like it's all that complex you can actually build one
yourself if you wanted to but heck why bogging when these guys are already done
all the work for you like I said solid metal constructions got two plugs on the
thing you don't need anything better than this if you're really serious about
finding electrical problems in your computer system and since this is a
mechanic Monday I'm giving away one of these $99 blue driver
to have a chance to win place to clean not offensive comment I'm the YouTube
comments below and the winner will be chosen randomly
by computer to get a great scan tool that you can use on your smartphone, so
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