You mean like an OBD scanner? Sure, thoes can be had on the cheap. What else do I need beyond that? I don't program my own ECU and I don't know of a single shop that needs to just for repairs. The only programming you need to do is if you want to modify your car for performance. A ECU reflash can be done for a couple hundred dollars. Though a reflash is nothing your run of the mill shop is going to do for a REPAIR. If the ECU is broken you buy a new one, you can even ask your "father" that.Originally posted by: harobikes333
Originally posted by: Kelvrick
Originally posted by: harobikes333
mmmk well do you have a couple grand tester to modify computer chips in cars? I mean its not just wrenchs you need you cocky thing.
Shut up already. You type and sound like a 12 year old trying to show off to a computer forum.
Why should everyone even need an expensive computer tester to reprogram their ecu's just to get their cars to run longer, anyway.
He makes it sound like anyone with half a brain can fix anything on a car. He is wrong.
You can fix the VAST majority of problems on a car without extremely expensive computer scanners. Sure some very technologically advanced cars today may need special equipment, but they are in the minority. Though if you read carefully (which children like you never do) I said that "any monkey with a full set of tools" can fix just about anything. A full set of tools would include most of the typical computer scanners your typical shop has today. You don't even need a computer do do alignment. If a sensor is broken, you replace it, you don't need a billion dollar computer to tell you that.
I'm with kelvrick on this one. You're a full of sh!t kid trying to be some hardass fanboy. I honestly don't believe you have a father who is a mechanic, because he wouldn't have a son who's head is so far up his ass when it comes to repairing vehicles.
I have two uncles who own shops and are full time mechanics. One is blood, one is marriage. One is a domestic mechanic and the other is strictly import (focusing on german). The uncle who does domestic (blood related) fixes all domestics and races GM on the dragstrip for fun. He drives imports for his daily driver car and domestics for his trucks. To quote him, "american is so much easier to work on, but I can get 150K miles out of my import before I even have to touch it".