My car is throwing a code right now and I took it to Mazda and they want $130 to plug it into their's just to diagnose the car, not to mention I'd have to leave it there ALL DAY.

Anyone in the SF area have one that I could use for about 5 mins to figure out whats going on and wipe the code?

 

^^ if only you were closer, I would not mind you using my SnapOn Ethos Scantool! Good luck!

 

Yeah.. if only you were in SoCal.

 

i could but not till this weekend :-/

 

That would be cool, I'm not in a rush. Just want to figure out whats up with the car.

 

I have one but your like an hour south of me

 

Buy one, they're cheap/$50 to $100....
Reads and resets all the codes.
Make sure you get one that can read the CanBus protocol, OBD or OBDII won't do.


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Can you point me in the direction of a cheaper one? I just need something simple and I had my friend try his snapon and 2 others and they didn't work. I'm tried searching the forums but I didn't come up with much.

 

Pretty sure mine does CAN as well as OBDII... where in San Fran are you?

 

Richmond district right off of Geary st, where Mel's Drive In is.

 

No Autozone near you? They will read it for free. Unless that silly-*** law passed out there that Jorge was telling us about.

 

No autozone in SF, but what I heard is that they don't do that anymore.

 

Funny thing happened...

I curbed my rim ever so slightly today and the CEL turned off.

 

^^ problem solved. Good job!

 

New problem is I need to bondo the curbage and repaint the rims. I might end up doing all 4 in a different color, I'm bored of black.