If all you need is OBD II, then you have a lot of great cheap options here already. It’s definitely worth having a cheapo one at least.

Just in case you aren’t aware though, OBD II is required by the US government for emissions reasons, and lots of car manufacturers will have their own proprietary codes on top of those that may not be read by any old generic OBD II scanner. To get those codes you’d need that car manufacturer’s proprietary scanner, and that’s going to be a lot more expensive.

It’s a cheap scanner, and it’ll probably rattle apart eventually (I’m on my 3rd). But it’s 10 fucking dollars, literally fast food meal money, totally worth it.

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