Hello and welcome to the end result of my time consuming search for a scanner (for want of a better word) tool for my newly acquired 2003 RR.

Like many of you I quickly found a need for something to allow me to read DTCs and reset the s dding EAS system - at £25 per visit to the local garage that could get old real quick. So spent many a happy hour trawling this forum, various suppliers websites and the bay of e. For all the suppliers out there reading this - might not hurt to improve the clarity of your websites and perhaps do a couple of helpful youtube vids (yes Mr Lynx that was directed at you) demonstrating your product comprehensively.

The search seemed to boil down to three general options; firstly a dedicated RR unit costing in excess of £300 (IID, Lynx and BBS), a cheapo generic obd2 tool (but what would it read on a RR and what would it miss - it was nigh on impossible to get an answer to that) and my final choice the icarsoft i930 for £89.

It was advertised pretty widely but there was virtually nothing by way of comments, reviews or even a good demo of what it could would do. So, not wanting to spend loads but not wanting a pos I opted for that.

Does it only work lying on its side ?

Looks like a handy piece of kit  .
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Yeah, its got a mercury switch inside. Actually I'm having issues with that - looks ok on my pc but when imported goes horribly wrong and its only been happening recently.

There is a rotate feature in the gallery, try that. The default orientation of your photo is correct so your PC must be doing something clever and making it portrait instead of landscape. The forum is seeing that it is a landscape image and displaying as such. .
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Previous: L322 Range Rover TDV8 3.6 2008; L322 Range Rover TD6 3.0 2002; P38A Range Rover V8 1999

Check out the video, maybe this tool is of some LR specific use. Not as good as an IID tool etc, but for £90ish a good addition to the LR tool box?

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This does look like an affordable and usefull tool.

Might invest in one myself.

The mini write up I had hoped would act as a catalyst for a better discussion of the various scanners available. The IID seems to be the only unit well discussed and as I said the marketing for the others was absolutely dreadful - no real explanation of what they actually did.

The icarsoft is no substitute for the iid etc but seems pretty good value for money. Question is do any of the v. cheap generic units fit the bill?

I hear what you are saying, but I can't justify the cost of the IID unit.

I just need something to help diagnose faults. This seems to fit the bill.

Where did you get your unit from may I ask.

Couldn't find the receipt but believe it was scantool-direct, cost £89 wherever it was.

Ive seen these on ebay. Im looking to reset my engine light and maybe reset air sus every now and then. Is this living up to your expectations? Seems alot of kit for the price?
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Well that was why I bought it; within the first three weeks of ownership I'd had two EAS inactive faults and could see that getting expensive eventually. Certainly the icarsoft can deal with resetting faults but the communication is simplex so no altering settings, thats where the more expensive units kick in.

I just placed an order for mine (i930).

Once I have received it, I'll let you know what I think of.

I received the unit yesterday. It is a very solid unit and it comes with a soft case and a usb-cable.

I wanted to update the software, but the websites did not function well (redirected to a Chinese site). Google was a friend and I managed to find the link for the update. There were two fresh updates available (from June and July).

Updated unit at hand, I plugged it into the FF. Found some faults which the unit was able to clear (all of them), but it couldn't access the BCU for example.

I wanted to try the unit with the motor running, but the car wouldn't start! Sounded like something was preventing the motor from turning. Got the usual lights on binnacle along with the eas inactive message. The battery had depleted down to 11.2 volts. Once I was confirmed that my unit wasn't behind all this, I carried on with some more testing, but found it useless as the low voltage (at one point down to 8-9 volts) would only generate more errors

My FF hadn't been driven for 5 days. The 100 ma battery and alternator are less than a year old. I ran the diagnostics for less than 15 min for sure. Do the diagnostics put more strain on the car battery?

I had the FF jump started, cleared the eas inactive with the steering wheel and didn't plug the unit into the FF again. Once I am convinced that the battery is properly charged, I'll carry on with my experimenting. Plain curiosity motivated me to get the unit as there was nothing wrong with the car. I'll keep the unit in the booth as a back up tool (along with the new jump start cables ).

its recommended to have the engine running when having a diagnostic tool plugged in, this way you will get 'live' engine/battery values as well.. .. ... - .- -.




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