Connection to the car was confirmed via LED lights on the OBD II cable as well as the vehicle battery voltage being displayed on the home screen. The first test vehicle was a Suzuki Swift.
Vehicle details have to be entered manually as the tool doesn’t support VIN recognition.įor this test the Solus Legend was put through its paces on several vehicles. The opening menu was easy to navigate and I jumped straight into the scanner function. The speed of the SMX operating system was evident as soon as the tool was turned on with boot up time just five seconds. “THE SCREEN LAYOUT WAS EASY TO READ – DIDN’T APPEAR OVERCROWDED – AND THE SMX SPEED WAS AMAZING.” It is a stand-alone automotive and motorcycle diagnostic scan tool with an 8’ high-resolution, colour touch screen, expandable memory via a micro SD card and has an embedded SMX operating system for fast and reliable operation. The Solus Legend is the next step up from the Ethos Edge. I met up with Dino Vasquez OEM & Strategic Accounts Manager and James Morris, National Diagnostics and Equipment Manager for Snap-on Australia who demonstrated the inner workings of the Solus Legend diagnostic scan tool. Whilst they are obviously made for the American market, they have always felt a bit lacking when it comes to vehicles here in Australia, so I was eager to test out the new Solus Legend from Snap-on to see if it could change my mind. It has to be said that I haven’t been a big fan of Snap-on scan tools in the past. The automotive landscape has changed quite a bit since then and Snap-on tools have evolved to meet the changing needs of the modern automotive workshop. Snap-on is a name that is synonymous within the automotive industry and has been a trusted brand ever since it patented interchangeable sockets back in the 1920’s. Most scan tools these days have become diagnostic platforms that are able to be integrated into workshop business systems giving both the technician and customer access to information that was not previously available. With a vast range of scan tools available on the market it can be hard to choose one that suits your business needs. It must be able to reset service functions, read live data, carry out actuations and transfer coding when replacing components.
The humble scan tool has come a long way since being merely a code reader. When it comes to diagnosing faults in the many electronic control units in modern vehicles having a high quality scan tool has become a must in any automotive workshop.
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