My P38 should be arriving tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure at some point I'll need to do some diagnostics/computer type stuff with it.
I've had a read through this forum but am getting confused between what does what.
The car I'm getting is a 4.6HSE from 1998. Will that be OBDII Compliant?
From what I've seen I could buy a USB OBDII Lead for my laptop for £30 - what can't I do with that?
Other options would be a blackbox which seems quite expensive and is locked to one VIN (Can that be changed later if I swap cars, or want to sell the blackbox on?)
Or the Bearmach Hawkeye.
What can't either of those units do?
All seems quite expensive, we've got a VW car as well and a VAG-COM lead for that costs £10 the software is free and it works really well.
I've seen I can also get a lead for the Air Suspension with a free bit of software for about £15 which seems more reasonable, would that and an OBDII lead be suffucient for most needs?
Sorry if all this has been covered - I've read 20 posts or so and finished off more confused than when I started!
I've had a read through this forum but am getting confused between what does what.
The car I'm getting is a 4.6HSE from 1998. Will that be OBDII Compliant?
From what I've seen I could buy a USB OBDII Lead for my laptop for £30 - what can't I do with that?
Other options would be a blackbox which seems quite expensive and is locked to one VIN (Can that be changed later if I swap cars, or want to sell the blackbox on?)
Or the Bearmach Hawkeye.
What can't either of those units do?
All seems quite expensive, we've got a VW car as well and a VAG-COM lead for that costs £10 the software is free and it works really well.
I've seen I can also get a lead for the Air Suspension with a free bit of software for about £15 which seems more reasonable, would that and an OBDII lead be suffucient for most needs?
Sorry if all this has been covered - I've read 20 posts or so and finished off more confused than when I started!