We haven’t had a chance to use one yet. Before i bought my lite, I remember thinking that it seemed like the main difference was immobilizer capabilities. What I would do is pull up their coverage charts in 2 separate windows and pick the same car, different tool, and compare them to each other to see if you think it’s worth it. That being said, I feel like if you program 1 key with it, that alone probably covers the additional $40.
This is what im trying to figure out as well. Im wondering if it just stops updating for newer vehicles or does it lock out some functionality like bi directional controls and PIDS?
Would love to see a comparison between this and the xtool anyscan A30m . The topscan is cheaper upfront, but the A30m is supposed to be the same with free lifetime updates.
Haven’t had any personal experience with it, but I know it will do some keys and has a few different service functions such as tpms programming. I’d say it’s probably worth the $40 price difference.
is there a way to just have it work without a subscription? I hate all these companies having subscriptions, I just want to buy something and own it and know it will work forever
With this being bi-directional does that means it’ll allow you to close evap purge valve so you can do a smoke test to attempt to find a large evap leak? Code P441 and P455 codes
You guys are superb I bought topdon machine at EBay last three days it’s very good machine. But I can’t find immobiliser but according to manual it has Please guys can you help either I’ll buy separate software???
Thank you and congratulations! They were all flagged for copyright infringement so we had to remove them. We do have a backup plan we are working on now.
Yes I did get that info later in the video. It would be nice to have all the basic info up front so your audience has a good idea of what you are reviewing instead of after. Costs and limitations are very important to know about.
I don’t have any experience with Thinkdiag, but looking at it, it seems like the Topscan Pro. Topdon, Launch, and Thinkcar all share software so it’s probably the same.
The one we were testing was the lite and it doesn’t have immobilizer functions. My understanding is that the pro version does, but I haven’t been able to personally confirm it.
@@automotiveinsight the lite does have the immobilizer feature I just don’t know if it works. I don’t have a vehicle I can test it on. I have a 2002 Chevy Silverado 1500. I do see the feature I just don’t know if it actually works
Genuinely pissed about the subscription … because over time you are gonna pay way more money in the long run like wtf do companies do dumb shit and take our money even tho we already paid for the product.
DO NOT RECOMMEND. Only one free year of app use. Then a yearly charge afterward, in order to use the device app! Device has no display or keyboard built-in for use without a subscription.
Are you serious, Dude?? It’s friggin’ fifty dollars. Did you complain after you bought you IPhone and find out it had an $1800/yr subscription? That Autel tool they have in this vid is $800/yr. Professional scanners can be over $1000 a month. This is a $50 scanner with a $50 annual subscription (=$4.10 month). Ten years ago you’d pay $20,000 for a scanner with this functionality.
@@shortsv8537 Then I would like a comparison between Topdon Lite without license versus BlueDriver which requires no license, which would be better then?
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I bought my topdon almost a year now and so far very happy with what it can do. a diy home mechanic.
You guys did a great honest review. Thanks to you i may pick one up. Appreciate the advice.
Excellent review. I just purchased this yesterday from Amazon and was looking for videos about it's functionality. Yours is the best I have watched.
Thank you!
The best review of the topdon scanner tool that I could find. 👍
Thank you!
Thank you for this review. I've been trying to figure out which one to buy. Topdon for sure. Thank you
If you have a Duramax, get one, you won't regret it. It runs both static and driving regen's plus it does DEF quality test and many others.
A bit long, but very informative. Thanks
This looks much more useful than OBDlink MX+ and BlueDriver so far.
Looking to replace my OBDlink MX+ with this actually. The bidirectional capabilities on it's own have me sold.
@@CREESE99 I was thinking the same until I found out it has a time limit / subscription. Would be helpful to know this up font.
Thank you for such a great review! Do you know if this unit will show the last reset dates for all systems, and how to see that?
Do you guys have any experience with the Pro version of this tool? Does the pro offer $40 more in value? Thank you!
We haven’t had a chance to use one yet. Before i bought my lite, I remember thinking that it seemed like the main difference was immobilizer capabilities. What I would do is pull up their coverage charts in 2 separate windows and pick the same car, different tool, and compare them to each other to see if you think it’s worth it. That being said, I feel like if you program 1 key with it, that alone probably covers the additional $40.
What exactly do I lose after 1 year? Is it just the ability to actuate certain items like fuel pump, lights, injectors, etc. or resets as well.
This is what im trying to figure out as well. Im wondering if it just stops updating for newer vehicles or does it lock out some functionality like bi directional controls and PIDS?
Would love to see a comparison between this and the xtool anyscan A30m . The topscan is cheaper upfront, but the A30m is supposed to be the same with free lifetime updates.
If they send us one, we’ll definitely make a video. As for now, we have like 10 scan tools between us and really can’t justify buying another one.
Great video, guys! Any thoughts on the Topdon Topscan Pro?
Haven’t had any personal experience with it, but I know it will do some keys and has a few different service functions such as tpms programming. I’d say it’s probably worth the $40 price difference.
@@automotiveinsight Yes, thanks again.
great review thanks
is there a way to just have it work without a subscription? I hate all these companies having subscriptions, I just want to buy something and own it and know it will work forever
So Topdon does do personalized ecu coding?
With this being bi-directional does that means it’ll allow you to close evap purge valve so you can do a smoke test to attempt to find a large evap leak? Code P441 and P455 codes
Yes
Great Review!
You guys are superb I bought topdon machine at EBay last three days it’s very good machine.
But I can’t find immobiliser but according to manual it has
Please guys can you help either I’ll buy separate software???
Thank you. Unfortunately there’s nothing we can do on our end, but they have excellent technical support. Have you reached out to them?
Does the tablet allow more pids to be shown on display?
What happened to yall ase practice test videos? I loved those they helped me pass a few
Thank you and congratulations! They were all flagged for copyright infringement so we had to remove them. We do have a backup plan we are working on now.
Is the software useable after one year? Is it just one year of updates?
We talk about it in the faq section at 23:11. You basically have global obd2 functions only.
Yes I did get that info later in the video.
It would be nice to have all the basic info up front so your audience has a good idea of what you are reviewing instead of after. Costs and limitations are very important to know about.
@@marstedtit’s labeled in chapters so you can skip to whatever you want to see.
@@automotiveinsight it would be helpful to know about these limitations / subscription up front.
@@marstedtwatch the friggin video marstedt… or there this no info system out there called GOOGLE! For Christs Sake!!!
Xtool a30m is a badass too.
Which is better Topscan or Thinkdiag?
I don’t have any experience with Thinkdiag, but looking at it, it seems like the Topscan Pro. Topdon, Launch, and Thinkcar all share software so it’s probably the same.
@@automotiveinsight
Okay thanks, I think the software 1 year from thinkdiag is really expensive, it costs 80 Euro, I think I'm going to buy Topscan
I have a 2004-2008 ford f150 5.4L with a p1000 code will it fix it
P1000 just means that the monitors haven’t run. You need to drive it until all the monitors have completed then the code will go away.
I've been working on this car in my front yard and it hasn't moved every time I put it in drive , It's stop the engine 😮😮😮
I have a video if u want to is They keep saying that I need to recalibrate the electric throttle body
15 is power with key on, 30 battery power, 31 is ground
I haven’t seen anyone try the key immobilizer feature. Does it work?
The one we were testing was the lite and it doesn’t have immobilizer functions. My understanding is that the pro version does, but I haven’t been able to personally confirm it.
@@automotiveinsight the lite does have the immobilizer feature I just don’t know if it works. I don’t have a vehicle I can test it on. I have a 2002 Chevy Silverado 1500. I do see the feature I just don’t know if it actually works
There is a pro model to this. It can code injectors etc
$60 ? Mine was $99 back in May.
The lite is $60. The pro is $100. The one we tested was the lite.
@@automotiveinsight My bad! Thank you for pointing that out.
@@francantanimorno problem.
low volume can not hear what was said
Turn up the volume then???
Genuinely pissed about the subscription … because over time you are gonna pay way more money in the long run like wtf do companies do dumb shit and take our money even tho we already paid for the product.
DO NOT RECOMMEND. Only one free year of app use. Then a yearly charge afterward, in order to use the device app! Device has no display or keyboard built-in for use without a subscription.
Are you serious, Dude?? It’s friggin’ fifty dollars. Did you complain after you bought you IPhone and find out it had an $1800/yr subscription? That Autel tool they have in this vid is $800/yr. Professional scanners can be over $1000 a month. This is a $50 scanner with a $50 annual subscription (=$4.10 month). Ten years ago you’d pay $20,000 for a scanner with this functionality.
Yes sir, good things are not free
That’s how it is this does a lot of things that a regular scanner wouldn’t
@@shortsv8537 Then I would like a comparison between Topdon Lite without license versus BlueDriver which requires no license, which would be better then?
Bruh I never knew this and I’ve had it for a while and it’s never told me anything about a subscription wtf??