Message from @killer kowalski
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what engine
5.4i believe v8
yeah sounds right biggest fuckin engine they made for that year model
Lord Vader
😂
nope
no way to read codes w/o scanner on that model
you can get a cheap one on amazon
maybe even a bluetooth one
that would be the shit i'm sure I can look one up its just annoying as fuck and didnt wanna pay the mechanic out the ass to rip it apart esiecially not the beaner in my town he "fixed" my shifter with disasembling and reassembling the fucker instead of replacing the bearings
my surface just overheated from the sun
look into elm327 adapters
if you have windows pc with bluetooth i have some real expensive software i can send you to use w it
you can do a LOT with it but its not really bi-directional
u can read info and codes and data etc but the only commands you can send is clear codes
well thats about what I figured with a truck that old didnt expect to do any tuning
you cant do bidirectional for less than like 1k anyway
ive spent a lot of fucking time on this too
yeah no doubt but yeah the adaptor is cheap enough and nothing to fancy for an old fuck like me to read and work with
i think the device is the cheap part and most of the expense is in liscensing the code from the manufacturers to communicate with all the different factory systems and checks
because updates are literally 700-1000$ for my scanner
i'm at 2014 so i'm ok for now but soon i'll have to do it
aint that a bitch the world of software as a service ...fuck that
its very fucking frustrating
and the updates are so fucking locked down
they have to come from a special snap-on computer in a locked box
that like recompiles the update for your specific scanner or some shit it takes like an hour
or you can send it out to california
that sucks a huge ass
nope just buy a nice old truck mid 60,s easy diagnostic then and tuning is a snap
nah
when you actually have the equipment
new cars are pretty fucking eas
and it provides a barrier for entry against poor spic mechanics
they're everywhere out here for brake jobs for fucking 20$ and shit
but anything computer related they still have to come to me
makes sense really considering cars theses days are packing radar and shit
>hunting for Rid-X