Check engine light with no codes

Thanks. At that price I will let someone that knows what they're doing deal with it.

Knurled wrote: The problem is, it seems like all of the newer scantools are subscription based. You buy the tool, and then you buy the updates package, and the device bricks itself when the subscription lapses. I think, but cannot be held to, that the Genisys is $1800/yr for updates. And the thing whines at us every December when the subscription is less than thirty days from expiration, even if we've renewed it already. All is not lost. The car is relatively new, there's bound to be an inexpensive private-user grade software coming out. Or someone may just hack the factory software, 6 of one half a dozen of the other. I can't say that I'm familiar at all with Fiat, as they're generally not old enough to hit independents yet and none of our regular customers has one. We mostly get German and Volvo as far as annoyingly obstinate imports is concerned.

Snappy gets $100 or so a month from me, and I get the updates as they are released. I have a specific line in my yearend statement for scanners, updates and online data, etc, and the number is always much larger than I want it to be.

All Euros are a bit of a pain from a scan tool point of view. VAG com seems to have the VW family pretty well covered, and my $8500 Autologic does a decent job on Volvo...Only Volvo. I bet Fiat is pretty poorly covered in the North American aftermarket. I will have to fire up my Snapon Euro and see if its there.

Bear in mind that not all scantools play nice with all vehicles, which is why we have the Genisys Touch, the old school pendant-type Genisys (good for older OBD-II GM), the Mastertech (good for pre-OBD-II), Auto Enginuity, Ross-Tech, my little MAC pendant, some more obscure things that we don't use too often, and we're shopping for something that does Mercedes and Porsche well that doesn't have x.431 in the title. Every one of those has something that it doesn't like...

For a DIY type, autoenginuity isn't too awful in price. I paid a few hundred for the hardware and software with the full set of features for Chrysler. And if I ever need to, I can add the features for other cars as well.