This device is meant to plug into your car in a port where your mechanic would plug in his 00 diagnostic machine to figure out what is wrong with your car for you. I did some online customer reviews for it, and some people love it and others had a lot of problems with the software (after you plug the device into your car, you then upload the data into your computer and then get a reading as to what the problem is).
Seeing as I am still somewhat new to my area and don’t yet have a mechanic (I’ve been lucky to not need one, yet! knock on wood), and seeing as I don’t know incredibly much about cars beyond changing the oil filter (and what I hear on Car Talk, haha), I was thinking this would be a good investment at 0 for the device so that I can get an assessment of any problems before I was to bring the car into a shop.
Does anyone have any opinions on CarMD?
Thanks!
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I have not used the CarMd but you will have to find out if it will plug in to the OBD ( on Board diagnostic) port on your car, there are three types of OBD and it all hast to do with the year of the vehicle and also if it is American or foreign made
The first type of OBD is between the years of 1988 to 1996 witch is what is known as OBD I. Then the second is from the latter part of 1996 to present and that is known as OBD II
then after next year they will have the third type out and that is what is known as the CAN program.
Not all code readers will work with all the different types of OBD that is why a mechanics code reader is so expensive because of all of the updates and the different cable that have to come with it in order to plug in to all the different vehicles that are out there.
The other thing that you need to make sure of is that can it be upgraded so if you buy a new vehicle in the next five years will it still be able to get the codes off of the new vehicle or will you have to buy a new program, if it is upgradeable than it may be worth the money but if it is not than I would go to a parts store or Wal mart and get a code reader from there it will do the same thing as the CarMd but all of your codes are in a book instead of a computer.