Can Techstream be used to diagnose other cars?

Just other Toyotas?

 

My ScanGuage II can read codes and freeze data, and dismiss codes if you want, on both Honda and Toyota. If you happen to have one, worth a try. Techstream would be the Naz though.

 

There's the VxDiag VCX Nano made in China, and the Tactrix Openport 2.0 made in California, among various other J2534 dongles.

-Chap

 

In relative terms ....

The one that Toyota actually tests Techstream on and officially supports is the Mongoose Pro from Drew Technologies, and I think that one is around $500.

The Mini-VCIs that are often talked about here are less than a tenth of that price (more like a twentieth, even), and you have to understand that is only possible because they are offshore counterfeits of a product that was already a knockoff. (The real Mini-VCI was made by an outfit called XHorse, and I could be wrong, but I don't think it's even possible to get a real one any more; the counterfeits drove XHorse right out of making their own product.)

Seems to me the VCX Nano shows up around $80 or so, and the Openport 2.0 lists for $169. I have one, and I do not at all regret having paid $169 for it. It does what it says on the tin, and is still made in California by the company that introduced it. (Also, it includes a standalone datalogger, which could come in handy now and then).

There are also counterfeits of that (if you see any Openport 2.0s priced way below $169, that's what you are looking at), and I strongly urge avoiding those, because I would hate to see our last US company (that I know of) making a good, less-expensive-than-Mongoose, J2534 dongle get driven out of making their own stuff the way XHorse was.

-Chap