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Old 10-29-2010, 05:21 PM   #3500 (permalink)
Jessobear
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Originally Posted by GM_Traitor3.5 View Post
These are the times where it's good to invest in a decent OBD-II scan tool so you can pull the MIL codes yourself. Hope it's nothing too expensive man.
You can buy cheap ones for as little as around $30. The real question is whether or not it works with the 370Z? I have one that I used on my '00 Celica, but it didn't work on my '07 Saab 9-3. But the Saab used some proprietary bizarre interface, so I'm sure that's what the issue was. If you're still in need of a scan tool next weekend, I'll bring mine along. I'm curious to see if it works.

All it does is pull codes. There are also expensive (~$250) scanners that can read the ECU telemetry in real time. These are particularly useful if you're trying to tune a piggyback ECU, since it allows you to look at fuel trims.
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