I hear about the GAP tools, but when looking on amazon its a bit confusing as the reviews on some are saying they are limited, or out of date -


This is the one I was looking at, if you have another you are perfectly happy with, could you link it in here for me? Thank you

 

I'm curious to see if anyone has tried other alternatives. I used the GAP tool with my LR4 and loved it. When we bought the Defender it wasn't compatible, and I've been waiting to see what the best solution is moving forward.

 

OBD2 Scanner tools and GAP (Name Brand - https://www.gap-diagnostic.com/) tool are two different things. GAP Tool The GAP IID Tool is a OBD Scanner and well as a tool to CODE in/Change additional functions for your vehicle. GAP is the only tool that so far that has been mentioned on this site to work both as a OBD2 scanner and programmer for our defenders. On the defenders its limited functionality. Hopefully more will be reviewed and talked about.

Another scanner/coder tool in the works is the new OBDEleven OBD Scanner Programmer tool. OBDEleven This has not been released yet for LRJ vehicles but they are working on it. Very cool setup with an interesting cost model. Works great for VW and AUDI's as well as other EURO vehicles.

 

As Silver said (thanks much, btw), GAP is our brand name. We have no resellers on Amazon (yet anyway).

If you're thinking of 3 letter acronyms for a diagnostic tool it would be OBD or On Board Diagnostics. This is an open standard required by law for emissions testing on all vehicles (OBD2 is the current standard). As it is an open standard, it requires next to no work by a diagnostic tool manufacturer to implement. That is why you can find OBD bluetooth dongles on ebay and Amazon for $20 that look very similar to our dongles. But they only have very basic functionality and only cover emissions related systems (engine and auto trans). And the $20 dongles do not always work very well. Full coverage on all systems including special items such as CCF programming (car configuration) is only available through the IIDTool in an aftermarket (non-dealer) system.

We have just released the firmware for the L663. Understanding what the differences are in diagnostic equipment is difficult - especially if you don't have a background in automotive mechanics. We have done our best to make the IIDTool user friendly, tho. 98% of the 15k units we have sold over the past 10 years are in private, non-professional hands. And we provide support.

My honest advice for someone looking, tho, is to either buy something inexpensive such as the iCarsoft (which is not available for later Land Rovers yet as far as I am aware) for around $75 or bite the bullet and spend the money on an IIDTool. The in-between solutions are just not worth it. Take that for what its worth as I am affiliated with GAP, but it is meant in good faith.

 

Stevemfr, Thanks for the update. Your IIDtools works well for CCF but does take a little know how and some googling to figure out. You guys need to turn your CCF functions into little mini apps that one can just click and implement. I mentioned OBDEleven as a competitor of yours and there setup does just that.... just not for LRJ yet... They Wrap specific CCF coding into little mini apps that can be launched within the tools app. Very specific and very precise click to run app and easily backed out if needed. Food for thought.

 

@stevemfr will you please post here when it's available for the 663?

Thank you!

 

lt's available now for the L663, l received mine two weeks ago.

 

Okay, how do we get it?

 

The L663 version is not yet officially released but they will sell you what they call the "Beta" version which is where they are at the moment with it.

A lot of people have bought the unit and it seems to work well.

 

This is destined to be a top seller. AS-S disable with GAP tool.