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If you are troubleshooting and fixing in your driveway or garage, you will appreciate the size of your laptop screen. I have a Michael Capellas era Compaq Presario that is dedicated to garage duty.

If you are wanting to drive around and monitor vitals then BT via your cell is the way to go.

Not really a right or wrong way.
 
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Flexpedition said:
If you are troubleshooting and fixing in your driveway or garage, you will appreciate the size of your laptop screen. I have a Michael Capellas era Compaq Presario that is dedicated to garage duty.

If you are wanting to drive around and monitor vitals then BT via your cell is the way to go.

Not really a right or wrong way.
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You know post-Compaq-era laptops usually got bluetooth? Oh and tablets too
 
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I've had a generic BT OBD II scanner with TorquePro installed on a dedicated $40 FireTab since mid 2016. No problems with either.

Lately though. I've been thinking about getting BlueDriver because it's a matched set, reader and app plus it/they claim it also reads ABS and transmission codes which TorquePro doesn't.
 
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I have two generic ELM327 bluetooth adapters, paid less than $10 for them, never had an issue and used on many cars and trucks with Torque Pro.
 
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Denethor said:
I have two generic ELM327 bluetooth adapters, paid less than $10 for them, never had an issue and used on many cars and trucks with Torque Pro.
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So the generic ones will let you use Forscan to disable the bulb out hyper flash too?
 
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J Ski said:
So the generic ones will let you use Forscan to disable the bulb out hyper flash too?
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They might, you just have to try them to see if they are compatible with FORScan. You can go on their site www.forscan.org to see the specifications. You will also have to register for the free license to be able to make programming changes.
 
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In order to program Ford Modules, whatever is connected to the OBDII port must support the MSCan protocol. If it does it will work with FORScan on the PC.
 
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