Joanne
Adventurer
Hi all,
I have a 1999 Isuzu Trooper that's starting to get up in the miles. I'm reasonably familiar with vehicles, tools and simple repairs. I've downloaded the Isuzu manual and would now like to pull the codes out of the onboard computer. I played with shorting the pins and counting the flashing lights, but what a pain! I have a basic mistrust of repair folks since I've been "taken for a ride" in the past. When I do have to go the the repair shop I want to have a pretty good idea of what's going on BEFORE I go there.
I know that there are a number of hand held readers available, but I was wondering if there are any good PC based readers available. I have a laptop and was thinking that it might be better to us it than to buy the handheld unit. Plus I would expect PC software should have more functionality than the hand held unit.
Any recommendations? Am I barking up the wrong tree with wanting PC based software?
Thanks in advance for your input!
Joanne
I have a 1999 Isuzu Trooper that's starting to get up in the miles. I'm reasonably familiar with vehicles, tools and simple repairs. I've downloaded the Isuzu manual and would now like to pull the codes out of the onboard computer. I played with shorting the pins and counting the flashing lights, but what a pain! I have a basic mistrust of repair folks since I've been "taken for a ride" in the past. When I do have to go the the repair shop I want to have a pretty good idea of what's going on BEFORE I go there.
I know that there are a number of hand held readers available, but I was wondering if there are any good PC based readers available. I have a laptop and was thinking that it might be better to us it than to buy the handheld unit. Plus I would expect PC software should have more functionality than the hand held unit.
Any recommendations? Am I barking up the wrong tree with wanting PC based software?
Thanks in advance for your input!
Joanne