My husband stumbled across your videos when he started hearing an odd noise in his Nissan Xterra. Once he heard you talking about code scanners and then the chassis ear, he bought both. We received our LAUNCH C123i a week ago, and a few days later the Check Engine light came on in my Suzuki Kizashi. We were able to use the DTC from the LAUNCH to find and fix the issue, which was a simply a loose wire that a mechanic has failed to reattach when he replaced a leaky intake manifold gasket. Local garage charges $90 just to hook it to a code scanner, so we've already saved more than half of what we paid for the LAUNCH. Looking forward to receiving the ChassisEar so we can try to diagnose the noise in my husband's Xterra.
Made an oops...it was the valve cover gasket that they replaced. Had a brain fart.
nice work. That's how it's done.
Just curious what type of noise is the xterra making?
I explain it in detail in a question from 2 weeks ago, "2014 Nissan Xterra Rattle/Chatter." To summarize, In the engine compartment just in front of the passenger, a rattle/chatter noise happens right before the shift from first to second gear. Always around 2200 RPM. I think we have narrowed it to a sticky VIAS valve, since that seems to be a common issue. The LAUNCH we purchased does show the noise happening every time the valve operates, but we're going to attach the ChassisEar to confirm.
Ok I responded to that one to. The chassis ears will be helpful to pinpoint just make sure it’s connected to somewhere very close to the power valve on the intake and that should be it
Autozone and others will do and OBD scan for free. Just saying.
We had more luck with the live data. No codes were being shown. Also, the OBD scanner we bought is now being used by multiple family members. We're all the type to work on our own cars when possible.