What if all new cars had the Full function factory scantool built right in

[Witsend]

After basic warranty is up, the customer has option to pay the OE manufacturer a hundred dollars maximum or a nominal fee for the key to unlock the built in scanner factory software should he be a do it yourselfer or want an aftermarket repair shop to take on the car. OE software with no holes Snappy could provide a side by side troubleshooter and Farfignuggen code decoder to simplify some things the Euro makes seem to intentionally do to make things a PITA . Just look at the disproportionate amount of IATN help requests for them makes and you can tell why the damn U-boats sank so many ships, in World War II, LOL

[sbreland73]

Then I guess we would be out of a job.

[Witsend]

For years cars have had onboard diagnostic capabilities accessed through combination of button pushing on the equivalant of an EVIC screen or climate control display. I worked on an old 1994 OBD1 Deville Concours that I thought had a built in Tech I that would display the engine codes, ATC, and other codes, and thought would even do actuations. I was hoping back then my brother in law , knowing of the capabilities of his car would have fixed his own POS Caddy himself , but no such luck, and he still brought car to me. There's People I'm sure who would plug and play with their car's built in scanner and plug a a USB to DLC cord into their lap top or I phone and tell me what they want to replace or take a chance and replace a part them self , but , like a paper clip and the lamp flash out when the novelty wears off looking at fancy lap top screen with Pids and graphs ,baffled, not knowing what to look for , they'll still come to us to fix it right.
I enjoyed handing my MT2500 to my brother and making him search, find, and do the transmission quick learn himself after I changed the ATF and filter for him .