I have a 2000 disco II and I simply cannot pay the Stealer $115.00 per hour for someone to plug my truck in and read codes to me.
Before everyone say’s buy an cheap OBDII scanner and a ABS Amigo the truck had ACE, ABS & SLS, and I have no intentions of cannibalizing the truck by ripped out the airbags or by pass the Amigo's in the harness when they have a problem. I prefer when cost allows to restore operating systems rather than dumbing the truck down too “my Level”.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not looking forward to spending $600 on a Hawkeye, Black box or whatever the group suggests, but that is only about 4 hours of diagnostic time at a dealer. I've already paid 1.5 hrs for diagnostic service so that's 25% of the cost of a unit. So what would you do? hawkeye? black box? others?

 

The cheap ODBII readers read the codes and clear them just as well as the expensive ones IMO. I have a scangauge, besides reading codes it gives me other real time information. That plus an ABS Amigo and you should be able to do most of the work yourself. The more expensive units can do more, but that is getting into an area where I will not be comfortable doing the work myself and would pull in professional help. Why blow the $$$ on a hawkeye when you cannot use all it offers?

 

well one of the reasons brought up the hawkeye is you are supossed to be able to access and operate the systems. Ativate the SLS (is it a bag or a soleniod), and the same goes for the ABS (is it a suttle valve or a hub sensor)& ACE rather than just read some of the outputs. I would think being able to operate the devise to see it's action/function or lack thier of would be much more benifitial.

 

I found the Hawkeye from a vender in the UK for $420 ($482 - VAT). I bought it for all the same reasons you mention.

 

How many times would you need that vs what it costs to maybe need it? Simple cost vs benefit. If you have the money for a hawkeye then they are one of the best. I can see the benefit of having one and being able to read ABS codes and also run the routines to bleed brakes and so on.

 

cheapest way is buy an amigo, and bring it to autozone, advance, pepboys etc for free obd2 scans whenever u need.

or buy a cheap obd2 scanner like ultraguage or scanguage, or want something more comprehensive autoenginuity for your phone or pc.

http://www.rswsolutions.com/index.ph...d=56&Itemid=55

UltraGauge Automotive Information Center and OBDII Scan Tool

ScanGaugeII - Trip Computers + Digital Gauges + Scan Tool

AutoEnginuity® - OBD2 Scan Tool - Professional PC and PDA Diagnostics

 

the autoenginuity looks like fine piece; but it only does 2002.5 + up

 

i have a 2000 disco and it picked up all the obd2 codes and a rough ride code without hesitation... its only the enhanced package option that only works with the newer discos.

i have the GM enhanced package for when i had my 96 trans am and it was AMAZING... was like a tech 2 for a 10th the price, plus it was on my cellphone, laptop and desktop, and made some really nice log data in a premade excel spreadsheet, which you can then make graphs off if you are into tuning and all... kinda useless with the rover but everything else is cool.... and modestly priced. i got it on ebay actually from them as a package deal years ago.

 

by all meens why would I want the "enhanced package option" maybe because it handles the ACE & SLS package which is what i stated i was looking for