Yea--you can do it with the right adapters, but it's a pain. Reflashing the vehicle's computer always runs the risk of bricking the vechicle, or having it fail smog.
Most of the downloads negate any warranties. I don't even know the legality of a lot of the downloads.
The fun is gone for myself. I'm not going to buy a four gas analyzer, just to work on my vechicle.
I'm looking for a new car for a relative, and I hate the current models.
He hates the current vechicles. His last new dealership car was a '62 Corvette convertable. He was 17 years old when he got it. He saved for it by working at Safeway, and a loan from his father. Could anyone imagine going from a Corvette to a these vechicles?
He sold the Corvette when he had me, something I still feel bad about. If I could talk, I would have talked him out of it. Plus--they bought JC Penny furniture, which was thrown away years later.
I feel like I'm throwing away 30 grand on a computer on wheels. And it's not even a computer, or code I respect.
When I buy a fun vechicle, I just look for pre-1974.
I told him, I'm not sure I can work on this new vehicle. It will not be like the past. And I went to automotive school in the 90's.
I noticed the average buyer couldn't care less about repair. I just cringe when I see that dealership $230/hr rate.
It don't understand being conned out of money, but when it comes to certain items(vechicles, giving realtors 3 percent, cell phone plans, blah, paying for refills, etc.) people just pony up the cash?
Maybe I'm just getting old, but when I was in my teens, I hated, kinda knew when I was being taken advantage of.