Should I by a renaultclip?

[jezvalva]

As above are they any good?

 

[imprezaworks]

Expensive arnt they. Why do you want one?

 

[MartinR]

Not as simple as buying and using.

Very complex bit of kit, that needs full understandment before use.

Tbh half the dealerships have no clue on how to use it.

Iirc you also have to pay for/aquire regular updated software.

 

[Stu172cup]

Most Dealer/Manufacturer diagnostics is hugely expensive - and They usually have 6 monthly updates sent direct from factory on disc and those discs are then returned/destroyed

And as been said most the Techs dont know how to use it correctly as some of them are a bit backwards

 

[MarcB]

There is a pile of them on ebay from "Overseas" which i thought about getting until i was told that they can cause a pile load of problems.

You want to make sure that you are 100% buying the real deal if anything and as said above its not a plug and play like an RS tuner.

There is one on ebay just now for £1995

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RENAULT-C...iagnostic_Tools_Equipment&hash=item4acc9f769a

 

[Dan@SJM]

As above. Don't buy a counterfeit item. It can cause a whole host of issues, aswell as allowing you to do more damage than good if you don't know what your doing with it.

 

[lemonnobby]

And as been said most the Techs dont know how to use it correctly as some of them are a bit backwards

cheers thanks for that.

i know how to use it very easy to do a lot of damage.
i have my own clip, i admit its a copy never had a problem

 

[Stu172cup]

ah my apologies i meant the software and interface is backwards , not the Techs lol

The Merc one is a nightmare to navigate

 

[SparkPlug]

I got a MaxiScan MS509, great peace of kit for just getting fault codes and resetting the ECU, only cost me £40, and payed for itself first time out of the box, sense then I have used it a couple of times now with Injector problems, it found the fault code, and gave me simple advice, like what cylinder the misfire occurred on, so I new which injector to change. And on top of all that it has advanced feature like live scan of some of the sensor from the ECU, and you can log this data, and transfer over to a computer.