Obd2 scanner thoughts

[rickpilgrim]

Back when OBD2 came out we had to give up the jumper wire and get serious about diagnosis. Here I am $25K later and another $1800 will get us updated to 2015 specs.
First was the sub $100 code readers. These are ok for giving you an idea what's wrong but that's it. At least you could feel ok about throwing it when it led you in the wrong direction. Those lasted from 96-98 or so.
After that I bought Accutron. These do a much better job and can stream data but for $500-600 we paid I expected that. The ability to watch live data and see the fuel trim and ign timing and all sensor data is very useful and enlightening. Still not perfect but better than just seeing code. That took us to 2008.
The Snap On Modus was next. Now we could read and record live data,even save data for comparison later. Testing of individual components, multi step testing, oscilloscope operations allowing you to see the wave form the sensors are imputing to the ecm and more, plus blue tooth to printer and much more very nice but around $5021.00 for us and $1500 updates to stay current.
In 2013 we updated to Snap On Solus, we were offer $1500 for trade on our Modus but seeing we had just done a $1500 update we took the $7500 deal without trade. Multi channel scanning and O scope is very usefull on newer things like my suburban, ability to extract ecm data without scanning and Bluetooth to this I Phone and printer and if your vehicle has any Bluetooth the cord to connect the adl is no longer needed. We can read and see the waveforms the ecm is reading from any sensor on screen with just the adl cord, and on any pre 2013 vehicle it can be used in place of the ecm to operate the vehicle. Multi scope inputs and outputs, we have it slaved to my 42" smart TV in the shop. Very nice but here we are needing a $1800 update again.

What have you used So far?