Best OBD II or OBD II/III Reader

[Matt42]

My wife wants me to buy a very good OBD reader. The kind that can use hookups for checking all sorts of devices, and -maybe- hook to a laptop computer. I am looking for suggestions. I am not saying that price is not an issue, but price is certainly a consideration.

In the last few years, LOML has come to realize that I have over 35 years saved us about $50K on car repairs, maybe more, by doing it myself. When I didn't do it myself, I knew enough not to fall for "always replace the replace the brake socks with the brake shoes" scam and the "your car needs a new computer" scam. Usually the tools pay for themselves with the first major repair.

(The one time she didn't take my advice on a car purchase caused us to take a $20K bath on a Saturn Vue that redefined the term lemon.)

So she's decided it might be helpful to have a good code reader to have on hand. Suggestions? And many thanks.

[elmeyer]

autoenginuity.com

[hppwdn]

I have an old Auto Xray OBD2 scanner I bought about 6 years ago. It's certainly not top of the line, but it reads all the current/pending codes and tells you the readouts of all your pertinent sensors such as TPS, O2 voltage, RPMs, coolant temp etc etc.

It's been a great scanner and it was only $85 way back when I bought it.