well I guess it's time to break down and buy a good one for our vehicles. I own nothing but mac's but am not against having to get a tablet or even putting window a on my MacBook to work the lynx. My question is will with program keys and what's people's opinions for the ones that have them already. Thanks in advance

 

Hawkeye is made by Bearmach and Lynx by Britpart, all part of the same company. Personally I prefer the Britpart Lynx as the technology is by Omitec who have famously developed many code reader systems, the Hawkeye, Nanocm, Lynx and even LR Test Book (originally), so for my money I'd use the Lynx (which I already own) although it requires a laptop or tablet attached but has proved excellent to date. Be careful as I'm not sure whether the Lynx runs on Apple Mac or not but worth checking. My tab is Win10 MS and works OK but I don't recollect seeing Apple Mac on their list of computers.

 

Yea I'm looking at running windows on my mac or just buying a pc tablet if needed. Can it program keys?

 

AFAIK yes, it seems to do everything on a D2 from reading and deleting codes to programming systems. I find it extremely flexible for all D2 tasks.

I also have a licence for the LR4 (Discovery 4) but as yet have only checked out the codes which are none to date.

 

I run OBD Fusion on my iPhone 6s and iPad connected to a very low profile WiFi OBD dongle. I've not explored a lot of detail, but it has worked great with the Disco ('01) and helped me discover a clogged radiator and has helped me learn a bit of the tendencies of the motor.

I'd really like it if I could get oil temp and pressure in addition to coolant temp but I can't even get that on my '12 Jeep Wrangler as it's a proprietary PID that no one has bothered to reverse engineer...

 

I looked at the standard obd 2 for apple but I want the functions offered by haw eye or lynx. My wife has been eyeballing the new 2017 discovery so I figured I could get one of those n then just buy that service package as well when it came around to that time

 

You'll not find any oil temp/ pressure PID's on the Discovery II, as there aren't any sensors for either metric. The oil pressure switch will only advise if the oil pressure has fallen too low, and trigger the idiot light in the instrument cluster.

 

Good to know. Thanks.

On a bit of a side note, how are folks doing oil pressure gauges? I'm assuming then, that they are putting a sender in somewhere? Way back in the day, I did it with a sort of a "T" junction with the OEM switch on one side and the sender for a gauge on the other. Is that possible in this application should I feel the need to get that granular?

 

Not a shabby idea. I would be interested in that myself

 

Hi Guys
Just joined the forum from the UK .
Been looking at diagnostic tools over here and we have Hawkeye and Icarscan .
Anybody got any thoughts as to which is best ?
Thanks for your time John Bow and Happy christmas