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Old 11-17-2008, 08:21 PM
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Anyone have a OBD scan tool I can use?
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?
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Old 11-17-2008, 09:18 PM
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^^ if only you were closer, I would not mind you using my SnapOn Ethos Scantool! Good luck!
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Yeah.. if only you were in SoCal.
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i could but not till this weekend :-/
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Old 11-18-2008, 01:10 AM
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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.
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Old 11-18-2008, 01:29 AM
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I have one but your like an hour south of me
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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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Old 11-18-2008, 02:09 AM
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Originally Posted by StealthTL
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.
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Pretty sure mine does CAN as well as OBDII... where in San Fran are you?
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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.
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No Autozone near you? They will read it for free. Unless that silly-*** law passed out there that Jorge was telling us about.
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Old 11-19-2008, 10:36 PM
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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.
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Funny thing happened...

I curbed my rim ever so slightly today and the CEL turned off.
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^^ problem solved. Good job!
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Originally Posted by Silver_Mazda09
^^ 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.
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