John Paul, AAA Northeast's Car Doctor, hears from a reader deciding between a vehicle code reader and a scan tool. The post Comparing code readers and scan tools appeared first on Boston.com.

Harbor Freight is known for its wide selection of tools, hardware, equipment, and nearly anything pros or DIYers can imagine. One notable offering is the company's Maddox screen code reader, which ...

Wheels: W.G. asks by email: “I am wanting to purchase a code reader so I can read and erase trouble codes that seem to occur often. I am not looking for an expensive one and I have seen several videos ...

Modern cars are basically computers on wheels. With so many electrical systems, sensors, and motors, there’s so much that could potentially go wrong. When something does go awry, pinpointing the ...

Before I figured out how to work on cars, onboard computer systems scared me. I’ve had no formal training, after all, so the idea of a car’s complex electricals and countless sensors made DIY work ...

If you've got a programmer for your truck, then you have diagnostic trouble code (DTC) reader built into your programmer. Lucky you. But for the rest of us, we still need a way to read codes on our ...