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Reddit mentions of OTC 3893 Encore Professional WI-FI Enabled Diagnostic Tool Kit
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30 years of OEM coverage for Domestic, Asian and European vehiclesLifetime hardware warranty with an active diagnostics subscriptionAuto ID most CAN vehicles in less than 10 secondsBuilt-in repair information with over 30 million experience based repair solutionsAutoDetect technology provides the ability to go from DTC to repair information with one tap of the screen
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| Release date | July 2015 |
| Weight | 10.5 Pounds |
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I have the Mac Mentor Touch Scout. It's an android based tool that's the same as this OTC Encore, but a few hundred bucks more. I bought it with a TPMS tool for $2500ish. I'm pleased with it, it's done almost everything I've asked of it, from actuating actuators to solening solenoids, to pumping pumps, to honking horns. Thankfully I don't do much on European cars, and the little bit I've used it for was pretty minimal. It did have quite a bit of tests on a Volvo I worked on a bit ago, but that was pretty much a Ford anyway. I use the tool more for viewing data than the tests, and it's pretty well laid out and easy to use.
Because it's an android tablet, you can use it to watch videos and games and stuff like that. I used it to watch NCAA tournament this spring.
It also integrates other sites into the diagnostics, like Prodemand, Identifix, etc, to help you find diag procedures easily. If your shop has identifix (or you can use someone else's!), it really adds a lot to the tool. During the demo, Mac guy was saying this screen will have like pinouts and connector locations and etc, but they're rarely there.
My complaints:
It's slow to start up. Work neighbor has a Solus Edge (I think), and he can have his booted and reading data before mine is even to the vehicle selection screen. The Edge though isn't nearly as well laid out IMO, and I haven't found anything his can do that mine can't and vice versa (though the Edge cost $3900 vs $2500). It also has a feature to scan all modules for codes. You can start it and "walk away" (you might have to select a few controllers) and it will go through each module and find any codes. The Solus Edge does it soooooo much faster it's not even funny. You're probably looking at like 30 seconds on each module on the Mac, and some modern cars have lots of modules. Engine, airbag, tpms, body control, trac control, radio, door modules, liftgate module... I could go on and on. But the Solus Edge is like 30 seconds for all of them.
Subaru. There's almost nothing for Subaru on these tools. I don't know about the Edge, but my Mac tool doesn't do much at all. There's some data I can see, but not much. Had a 2000 Outback the other day and had to use Global OBDII. There aren't really any useful special tests, even on newer Subarus, and the data is pretty limited.
Mac said the scan tool has a lifetime warranty on the hardware as long as I keep the tool updated. Updates are $700 for a year.
I've never used the Autel unit, but when we had a Matco guy, he sold them and said great things, said every shop he's sold one to loved it. I have a buddy that has one at their shop and he can't say enough good things about it too.