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Fault Reader

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Worthing
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Fault Reader

Post by Worthing » Sat Nov 03, 2018 2:28 pm

Hi,

Decided after a couple of months now owning my 2004 e53 i would take it to the garage for a niggling couple of bits, whilst there i asked him to run diagnostics on it ...... Starting to wish i did not as result in 4 pages of print offs  :'(

Slowly working my bank account to fix all known issues, but got me thinking it might be handy owning a diagnostic reader.

Any recommendations on ones to buy? ideally one that gives the full story not just an error code, and also ideally i can send results to a PC and print it off. Benefit also will be able to reset the service lights.

Not sure if any of the above if possible, but if anyone knows, its you guys. :)

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marti
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Re: Fault Reader

Post by marti » Sat Nov 03, 2018 6:28 pm

After the code read did you take it for a 5 mile drive and then re-read the codes ??..if not most of the codes are probably historic...never deleted when the problems were fixed in the past....if your a novice Carsoft diagnostis or Carly is the way to go.

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