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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby
Thanks man, really appreciate your input. I'm gonna bring the laptop to work to see if it powers up one of my work computer screens, i'll let you know. If i get something on the cheap that is working, I'll let you know too. Not gonna waste your time with a hunk of junk. Speaking of which, what is the best way to dispose of this thing, its a really annoying paperweight right now lol!
Might get this 60 bucks guy to take care of a few things for me next time he's in town, just would really like to have the ability for diagnostics when and if I need in the future, the X is going to be with us for the next few years at least (we just got married and bought our house this year, I own the car outright and we only have a small payment on the wifes car)
Thanks for the tips on laptop choice Alex, I'll scour craigslist too.
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If you want to get a diagnostic scanner get a Bluetooth scanner that connects to the OBD II port under the driver side dash and get the app called Torque. It can read error code and clear error code. I have Torque on my Android phone and I always carry the scanner in the car in case I get an error code. In fact I used it a couple of weeks ago when my X threw up a SES code while we were coming back from Christmas shopping. I could feel the engine miss and didn't want to drive it back home like that so I stopped at my brother house. Read the code a P0304 which mean a misfire in cylinder 4 and the injector was turn off by the computer to prevent raw gas from entering the CATS. Change the spark plug and I still could feel the engine miss and the code was still a misfire in #4. So I swapped the coil pack from #4 to #2 and clear the code. The engine was still missing but this time the code was P0302, misfire in #2. So I had a bad coil. Got a coil at Autozone and I was able to repair the car and drive it home.
I like the app so much that I brought the Pro version for my tablet.
I just got my car coded this morning. One push of the remote opens all the doors instead of just the driver door, the door self lock once I start to drive the car and I can blind the drivers in front with fogs and high beam at the same time.