[knorwj]

Originally Posted by regalfriend

thanks for info Knorwj...Inspection and alignment is a few of the things that i cant do , and need to bring out. Alot of shops try to BS, and i think about 90% of people get screwed...Is it really $1250 for the new machines?....i asked one guy at a local shop and he told me it was like $70,000....i guess more BS.... im sure when alot of people go into these shops they are veiwed as a meal ticket with an open bank account.

Yeah 70,000 sounds like BS to me. The new machine is just a Dell computer that runs a specific program rather than windows or something. It has a OBD2 plug in thing and a scan tool that both plug into a USB plug behind the computer. The scan tool is used to scan the bar code on either the registration sticker or registration. This enters the vehicle info into the computer program. Then the OBD2 plug is plugged in and it reads the cars computer and asks you some saftey inspection questions (the plug has a little controller attaches with a Y/N button for entering answers) Anyway then after everything is said and done the program says pass/fail and prints out a sheet from a HP printer that comes with it. Definitley not 70,000 dollar equipment.