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What is the CAIS Certification Program? It is a test that assesses how well you know, and can use, ALLDATA Repair. Passing the test means you have the skills and knowledge needed to use ALLDATA Repair at a professional level and are a Certified Automotive Information Specialist. I prefer alldata online, reasonably priced and the information is easy to find in their system. Mitchell has a nice fancy interface but it can be difficult to navigate to find what you're looking for. Its 159.00 a month so just slap a $5.50 shop charge onto every repair invoice to cover the cost.
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Get a Bluetooth OBD2 scanner off amazon as others have suggested. This will work on all cars 2000 or newer (became standard in 1996, but some imports didn't have OBD2 until 2000-2004, although I haven't ran into any). For anything older, you will need an OBD scanner.I haven't found any 'free' apps that don't do much more than give you trouble codes. I personally have on my Android phone. Think it cost about $5 for the Pro version, but they have a free one that will give you codes.
Wwe smackdown vs raw 2012 ppsspp iso download. For my laptop, and performance tuning, I use. Don't know the cost as I got the laptop it's on from a mechanic.Beware of making any changes unless you absolutely know what you're doing. You can mess up your car real bad if you change the wrong thing. There isn't really any software for diagnosing issues with any car.
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Free software in the automotive market is like a unicorn; I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist. Your two major players for running a shop are Mitchell and AllData. Both have their pros and cons, though last I checked AllData was more current with current OS, whereas Mitchell was still running on Windows XP (this was two years ago).
My understanding is that both software packages are pretty expensive, which is why a lot of smaller shops don't use them. I use a 35 dollar bluetooth odbII serial device that works with torque free on my android phone. It gives basic codes and shows a few basic data graphs like speed, temp, and load. Sometimes I have to argue with the bluetooth subsystem, delete the device and re-add it. I think it is mostly my phone though.It can reset codes and look up codes on the web.
I also have an older cheapie code reader and lookup book from before I had the setup above.Though, it doesn't beat actually the $4,000 unit my brother's shop has that can adapt to special codes for different vendors, show graph readouts for specific sensors. They typically order stuff with Snap-On or MAC tool who also finance tools.
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