AutoScan

AutoScan is an intuitive and simple to handle piece of software developed to provide you with a method of determining whether your car has any functionality problems, by detecting numerous issues through ninety different sensors.

The program supports all EOBD and OBD2 compliant cars, which includes almost all automobiles built after 1996, so it is unlikely you will have any trouble with that.

Bear in mind that you also need to connect your vehicle to the computer through an ELM interface, to the USB slot, in order for the utility to be able to analyze it.

AutoScan can discover a wide array of problems with your car, including the reason for your ‘Check Engine’ light being on and how to get rid of that. It detects a series of faults that can cause this reaction and enables you to fix them before they become a safety issue.

Moreover, the application allows you to view and analyze ‘Freeze-Frame’ information from when a certain fault took place. It is able to heuristically obtain and display several details about the timing values, temperature, actual engine speed emissions and other such information concerning your vehicle.

Using the ‘Virtual Dashboard’, you can get live data from your car’s speedometer, engine or oil temperature, but it can also let you simulate these values. Once a diagnostics operation is complete, AutoScan generates a log file, where in includes all the information about the detected faults and the recorded live data, which can come in handy to a mechanic.

To sum it up, AutoScan is an interesting and useful application that aims to assist professional or amateur mechanics in determining and fixing a variety of vehicle faults, sparing you from a lot of effort by doing all the hard work and letting you reap the benefits, in little to no time.