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Old 11-13-2004, 12:50 PM
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Ok, work is buying me a new laptop next week. I know this has been discussed before, but what are the best known and most cost-effective laptop scanning softwares out there, preferably OBD1/OBD2 compliant, but with preference to the OBD1?

Let'* list them all, help an old guy out, and turn it into a Techinfo article.
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Don't know if this will nelp but go to www.fiero.nl and to WinALDL should be a lot of information or same address and go to Orge'* cave under electrical / ECM
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Go after something multi platform, because if you are anything like me, windoze doesn't satisfy you.

Off topic: What kind of notebook are you getting? I can't wait until I have a job.. and then after that a job that would buy my notebook!


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http://www.akmcables.com/

Should be able to set you up with the connector.
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All the free ones. TurboLink 4.0 has an SSEi setup, Carbytes is good, Datamaster 32 is promising as well. A cable/box setup i bought on ebay came with a CD-R with all sorts of software.
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EFIliveV4 owns CarBytes.

Buy a cable, Building one is a biatch to get working....
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