r/AutomotiveDiagnostics

Hello, i have an issue with the said car, when i bought it the previous owner said that there is an issue with the fuel pump, however, the pump when connected directly works fine but the car cranks and doesnt start. The car doesnt gave a key code because it seems to have been bypassed by a device that is soldered onto the ECU board. Voltage is being sent to relays and fuses properly but isnt being sent to the spark plugs which do not spark when cranking, there is also no fuel coming to the engine. Since i bought it i managed to get the fuel pump to work but i cannot find the other issue because there is no diagnostics available for this car.

Hello! Just as the title says, I want to start an auto diag business. I took a small training a year ago (Which I didn't learn much from because duration was small) that gave me a certificate allowing me to start a business on that (couldn't start right away as I had to go for Military Service for a year).

My thing is, that I honestly suck at car mechanics, let alone electrical stuff.

So my idea was to get a diag tool and help out at a car repair shop to learn mechanics while using my diag tool to learn the best of both worlds, if possible for an auto repair shop to even take me in for that pretext.

I would love to start with something small, something under $150 (or euros).

Tools I found include: Xtool A30M, ThinkScan Plus S7 (This was the one used to teach us actually), Launch CRP129 EVO, Thinkdiag 2.

I am from North Africa so most cars here are european and/or chinese (a LOT of chinese cars imported last few years).

One more thing is that I was trying to steer away from tools that require a recurring subscription but then I realized maybe those are the best ones lol. The thing about diagnostic tools used here, and I'm not entirely sure, is that people use cracked software a lot, like the Delphi, AutoData and stuff for Laptop and the Diagzone subscriptions. People even use these as Digital Products on TikTok or whatever.

I appreciate any help, Thank you!