![]() You do have to be prepared for the unusual though. For instance the Oxygen Sensor output on my boy's Astra is going to look very similar to that on the Panda or my other boy's Punto and this applies to many of these components. One of the really great revelations which dawned on me after I'd been "fiddling" for quite some time (and with there being, at most times, 6 vehicles in the "family fleet") was that there's a great deal of commonality between vehicles and manufacturers. Of the many books I've bought and borrowed I find these are the two I continually fall back on when faced with something I can't get my head round. Neither are "cheap" but you might find the Stoakes book in your library if it's a big one, Steve Cooks book is an American book and much less common. ![]() and Automotive Oscilloscopes - Waveform Analyasis by Graham Stoakes. ![]() If, like I was, you're starting from a pretty low point of knowledge, I can recommend a couple of excellent books: OBD2 Diagnostics Made Easy by Steve Cook. Having said all of the above if you don't have a sound grasp of the generalities of OBD systems and how sensors/actuators/etc and ECUs interact then trying to get to grips with using MES (or any scanner/diagnostic tool) becomes infinitely more difficult. MES itself is very helpful with the wee help boxes on the right hand side of the screen, but when I run into something I really can't figure out I ask on here or ring (or email) grant at Gendan (where I bought my MES and who is quite exceptionally helpful) and, so far, I've always been able to get on top of whatever I was trying to do. Now, with the value of hindsight, I think it would be very difficult to produce a detailed general guide to using MES because there are so many differences between vehicles, even different model years of the same vehicle - try looking through the parameters that come up for several different years and versions of the Panda alone - So the approach I've taken is to "muddle along" learning as I go. All of this I learned by trial and error and with a good dollop of help from the kind, patient and very knowledgeable people on here ![]() ![]() and I was getting into how to do stuff like Phonic wheel relearns and proxy alignment (still too frightened to do a proxy alignment - but I haven't needed to do one yet). I guess I'd owned my MES (multiplexed version - "showing off" saying that) for about 3 years by then and was getting more familiar with it, still learning to this day! - but I'm an elderly and slow learner so it doesn't come easily to me.Īt that time I was feeling pretty comfortable with stuff like scanning for codes stored and erasing them, service interval rests, and other stuff like graphing sensor outputs (one of the most useful things you can learn) and driving actuators etc. I made a similar post to you here regarding a MES guide around a couple of years ago. ![]()
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