What about Snap-On MT2500

[stevebfl]

I need to straighten out some possibly eroneous info I have given to the group. On more than one occasion I have recommended a Snap-On scanner MT2500 as a cheap "real" tool as opposed to the generic OBDII tools so many of you have talked about.

The generic OBDII, which a Snap-On will also do, is a very insufficient tool for even the singular area it is designed to monitor. The only area it will monitor is the engine/trans (not much on trans.

I do have a Snap-On scanner but have never used it on a MB. I have used it on BMW and assumed their coverages would be similar. I even ordered a VW module yesterday from Snap-On based on a recent tech discussion on iATN that discussed how much better Snap-On had done the software than VW (whose scanner is more different than any other make's tool).

I will check to see how much Snap-On covers, but I felt I should place this warning and start a discussion on its capabilities. It might only do engine and trans. It WILL do them a thousand times better than OBDII as MB didn't really transfer their test techniques to OBDII in a way to help techs. They only fullfilled the extent of the law, which produced some pretty useless data.