What's in your toolbag?

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5chn3ll
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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by 5chn3ll » Thu Apr 18, 2019 10:16 am

Can you find the rear cable release? You can use the remote posts in the engine bay to jump start if you can get to that rear release - and that one is WAY easier to just reach up and grab compared to the front trunk release cable...

Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by Kalashnikov » Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:08 pm

PSA for people. Bought the Zurich ZR 13 scanner from Harbor Freight and pleasantly surprised. Very fast at connecting and quickly gives you codes and tells you what it believes will fix the problem. It will reset CEL, Abs and Airbag lights. Only used for CEL so far.

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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by FRUNKenstein » Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:48 pm

My abs could definitely use a reset.
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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by 32wildbilly » Mon Jul 06, 2020 5:35 am

FRUNKenstein wrote: Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:48 pm My abs could definitely use a reset.
Now THAT is funny!
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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by 5chn3ll » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:20 pm

This tool - a telescoping basin wrench - is the shiznit for removing oxygen sensors. Like a pipe wrench, the jaws are self-tightening; the harder you crank on it, the better it bites into the O2 sensor hex nut. If you pick one up, make sure it has tool steel / hardened jaws like the one in the photo. The jaws swivel in one axis, so you can even use this with the cats mounted in the car and have better access than you would with a ratchet or wrench.

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Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.

Gone hunting with Alec Baldwin and Dick Cheney. Back soon.

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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by Einsteiger » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:24 pm

I've had a really good one of these for YEARS. Now I know that it has a genuine, non-house-plumbing use!!
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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by JohnIreland » Wed Aug 05, 2020 4:30 pm

Favorite scanner/diagnostic tool? Foxwell NT530...or...?

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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by Einsteiger » Wed Aug 05, 2020 5:09 pm

Durametric is really popular...but I have yet to buy one.
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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by DBJoe996 » Thu Aug 06, 2020 8:30 am

Durametric on laptop is the best for diagnostics and overall maintenance. It will reset air bag light and you can check your cam deviations on a routine basis. I also have a simple OBDII scanner that I keep in the door pocket for a quick look at codes and it will erase the codes. Nothing like being on a drive and having the CEL come on, and you don't know why.

I also just got a Foxwell NT510 for our Mini Cooper. It came preloaded with the BMW/Mini/Rolls Royce (?) software and it did a fantastic job on the Mini. Full and complete report and you can save your vehicle information for next time. Just make sure you follow the instructions to register and get any updated software from their website. It was simple...took five minutes.
You can also use their website to buy and install other makes/models, including Porsche. I'm really impressed with it.

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Re: What's in your toolbag?

Post by JohnIreland » Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:48 pm

So I watched a bunch of videos on code scanners...5 best scanner, 20 best scanners, 10 best scanners, if you only have one scanner, and then I ran into a video by some guy (I forget his name) and he looked like a cross between a wanted sex offender and someone who worked in Hitler's motor pool, but he didn't seem too crazy so I decided to go with his recommendation and get my feet wet.


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Hey for $35 dollars all I can do is learn.

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