Engine Diagnostic
 

Have noticed there seem to be a Few of inexpensive Engine Code Readers on E Bay, does anyone know of a suitable unit that will work with my 2.5crd 2003 Voyager?

Any help would be appreciated

- what do you call inexpensive - £5 - £50 - £500 - £5000 ?
- most of the P codes can be seen on a 'key dance' for free

Hi thank you for the reply, below £50, I have done the key dance and found a code but I have been informed that the code I found was a general code and what I would be looking for would be hidden under the general code found using the key dance

This is one area I find frustrating with our cars, its almost impossible to find a cheapish diagnostics tool. With mercedes Launch which sells for £100 will read most things
? You can even buy chinese clones of the official Mercedes tool for £250.

Why hasnt someone created for Grand Voyager

John if something is highlighted in red [in #2] you are supposed to click and read it to save duplicating information. As you did not know this I'll reproduce for you a post made just a few days ago :

Look most readers are pretty useless, £20 for a bluetooth android smartphone toy might give more than a 'keydance' £150 for a bluetooth Autel will give more than a 'keydance' but even in the £1000+ fully diagnostic [not reader / scanner] league you will have issues reading Chrysler, even when in this elevated diagnostic club a J2534 reprogramming tool costing an extra £1000 quid needs to be added to the first £1000 and even this tool has issues with Chrysler specific vehicles.

For example the 2014 CHRYSLER Diagnostic Software for X-431 Series V29.00 has only just updated the following covering from 2005 to 2015. All diagnostic & scanner level tools are behind their years, at the end of the day even if you have the £2500 invested in kit you still need someone like tfb to translate what the tool [s] tell you into a hands on diagnosis. Best of luck.

Thank you QinteQ for the info, I had not realised that was possible, looks like the Chrysler's are a oddball regards Diagnostics, O Hum

All companies play the PTA [protect thine arass] game to one extent or another, overpriced main stealer's first line of defence is to control information, even a scan only is £100 and parts are 3 times the OEM price - that's the way it works. Chrysler are particularly greedy and controlling with all of their software the DRB 3 for vehicles up to 2003 and the wiTECH for the current vehicles. One other problem is diesels are only sold into 2 countries and so very little CRD info even gets into the world. Best of luck.