Thread: Hilux airbag light

Originally Posted by Taranaki bushman

Ok that will be the issue then. I didn’t think it was an overly complicated job so I swapped it out myself, followed a YouTube video along. Couldn’t justify taking it to Toyota I called them up to see if they would scan the problem and the lovely girl said it would be between 240 and 340$ just to scan it.

Work (dealership) charge $100 flat rate diag fee.
That 240-340 is a ripoff!!

I did have a bit of luck with cheap OBD readers and using free apps on the phone to get error codes.

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we charge $65

Just buy a Amazon OBD2 kit, comes with Techstream, tells you everything the Toyota fellas can see and a whole lot more that they don’t understand anyway!

I use mine every service to check any codes, how the injectors are going, etc. Very effective. My Scangauge II gives me codes as well as monitoring key performance criteria.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Just buy a Amazon OBD2 kit, comes with Techstream, tells you everything the Toyota fellas can see and a whole lot more that they don’t understand anyway!

I use mine every service to check any codes, how the injectors are going, etc. Very effective. My Scangauge II gives me codes as well as monitoring key performance criteria.

will it clear codes as well?

It does everything. Pilot relearning, the works.

It’s the Toyota system.

Do you have a link to the obd2 kit please flyblown

Originally Posted by Taranaki bushman

Do you have a link to the obd2 kit please flyblown

no sorry I don’t because I bought mine in 2014. But I can pretty much guarantee that if you do some creative googling you will find it

Yeah second that, my $190 Bluetooth dongle and $10 cellphone app literally pulls and records more data off the ranger than ford's setup. If you can program it to find the stream you want haha! Scary powerful, can brick the vehicle if you aren't careful but has saved me several hundred or more likely several thousand in diagnostic and tech assessment. I take in the readouts and get the exact parts swapped now.