Stuff We Use: OBD-II Code Readers

On our never-ending quest to improve this place by listening to feedback from the B&B, we are taking a new tack with these product posts, choosing instead to focus on items we have actually used or purchased with our own meagre income. After all, if we’re giving you the truth about cars, we ought to give you the truth about car accessories.


Just about everyone who toils at this publication have worked on a vehicle equipped with the so-called OBD-II diagnostic system. Given the tendencies of our readership, it is a reasonable to imagine many of our readers have done this as well. Having a handheld OBD-II code reader in yer box of tools can be a lifesaver – or at least douse that infernal check engine light.

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  • MaintenanceCosts Our entire local USPS fleet appears to be ProMasters. We’ll probably be last to get these things.
  • Queen i realize I have to apologize to Matt Posky here…I started skimming the last few paragraphs because his writing is absolutely insufferable…I did read enough to see that this is a “technology licensing agreement”, and that the cells themselves are being provided by the Japanese company, not CATL. Posky’s innuendo makes it sound as though they may as well be peeling Chinese labels off the cells in favor of Japanese ones….but that’s not what a licensing agreement means.can someone who tolerates Posky’s writing better than me please clarify? Much appreciated!
  • ToolGuy One of those new federally-funded chargers is down the road from me and features 100% fusion energy and there were two of the new mail trucks charging there today along with two Cybertrucks (and an ICE VW with 400,000 miles on the odometer). Also a unicorn and two dragons talking with a leprechaun.
  • Michael S6 Hopefully the humongous windshield does not convergence the sunlight on the sitting duck driver.
  • SCE to AUX I don't know if I've seen one. Mail delivery vehicles come in all shapes and sizes, and they're all pretty invisible to me. Besides, they're competing with the Amazon, FedEx, and UPS trucks that go through my neighborhood several times a day.