Techstream cable hardware

Now there are versions of scanners full screen like iPad things you know the ones that have been out for a little while now that can bleed the brakes and do pretty much everything tech can do like an autel ver 5 or 6 can be had now for say $200 something like that if you shop carefully My battery guy says he sees them all the time he's using an version 8 which he only paid like $399 for and I don't even know why he only messes with for the most part Prius.

 

Does this mean that I need to turn on my Wi-fi and download something from Toyota? Nice try, Toyota. I thought that I had all software and should be ready to go from the ih8mud website.
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You do not need to turn on Wi-Fi. Just click on continue.

 

When you have the real Toyota software and you have a real Toyota account as a technician parts department person whatever this button you push and you will login to your TIS account and then when you scan this vehicle or whatever you're fixing to do it will find all the updates for your vehicle for all the computers and show you on a list your computer number firmware and the firmware that should be on the car or will be when you push continue when you don't have connection and access you'd click no or you don't continue with that You continue with the scan of your vehicle without getting all the updates from the web and TIS unless you've bought an rights to use for two or three days or something then maybe it will allow you to get all the updates for what you're scanning for the two or three days you've paid for I'm not sure about that but more than likely that would be the case

 

O K Thanks
My real issue is trying to do an ABS air bleed after replacing the master cylinder and booster pump. A message reads "Lost communications with the vehicle" when doing a stroke simulator bleed. Tomorrow, I will work with 2 vendors that I bought cables from. If they can't help, I can send the cables back to them. The Creader Elite Toyota tool will be my next try.

 

If the VCI cables that you bought do not work with Techstream, your next best option is to buy the Autel AP200 scan tool. It is about $60 on Amazon. You can read more in these threads:
https://priuschat.com/index.php?posts/3290690
https://priuschat.com/index.php?posts/3248209

 

What happens when you run a health check in Techstream? Do you get any communication errors?

 

This seems to be a normal thing with the pirated copy of techstream.
And/or with the cable... It's a risk everyone takes....

I'm very happy with my Xtools D8. It does everything I've asked it, and it works
with multible other vehicles....

 

Most of this tablet scanners now are coming around and getting to the point where the capability of the Prius is not a huge issue like the X tools d8 and there's a bunch of a u t e l setups that are right at $300 things like that what you have to be careful of with some of these scanners is they will give you one car model for life when you buy the scanner but anything you're trying to do to other cars that's anything worth a darn you may have to pay a subscription to deal with that vehicle That's the only way they've been able to make money in this game at all is by antics like this and of course the snap-on and all those tools are the same thing they're even worse so here it doesn't make any difference to us because we predominantly only own Toyotas so when I buy one of these scanners and I select Toyota That's what it's going to work on pretty much all its life The only thing nice about the tablet scanners and whatnot as they are extremely extremely well built by directional scanners so scanning other vehicles that are not in your subscription list is not a problem when you try to do TPMS work or bleed the brakes is when you will not have those tools without having a subscription so there's always that with things like the AP200 you could just afford to buy one of those for each vehicle you have at 50 something dollars versus 399 for the tablet and stuck to one model of car or one make of car rather. It's just a choice you have to make with limited funds I would go with the AP200 and then if I was to get a Subaru outback or something I would just buy an AP200 for it when time came or I could use the AP200 with the Toyota software that I use for my Prius as a very good scanner to scan my Subaru but it may not have all the fancy features to bleed the electric brakes and so on and so forth for the Subaru because I haven't what? Paid money it's all about the buck. All of this stuff is only about money nothing else