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Old 22nd June 2017, 13:10   #1
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I was thinking about buying a T4 Diagnostic Tool and I just wondered, what would be a fair sort of price to charge for its use.
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Old 22nd June 2017, 13:49   #2
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I was thinking about buying a T4 Diagnostic Tool and I just wondered, what would be a fair sort of price to charge for its use.
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I think you have missed the boat by about 10 years.

There are a number of alternatives out there available to individual owners today
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Old 22nd June 2017, 14:44   #3
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I think you have missed the boat by about 10 years.

There are a number of alternatives out there available to individual owners today
Depends how well you can use it - it's not the tool, it's the experience and knowledge of the operator that counts. If you've never used one before and have ideas of tracing faults and repairing ECU, and programing keys (properly) then for a while you'll have to just risk your own paperweights (I mean cars) or pay others to let you mess about with their pride and joy.
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Old 22nd June 2017, 15:14   #4
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Depends how well you can use it - it's not the tool, it's the experience and knowledge of the operator that counts.
Very true. There are a couple of T4s at garages close to me but how well they know them is another matter. Unless I was desperate I'd rather have one of the guys here, especially with it being a cantankerous V8
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Old 22nd June 2017, 16:31   #5
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I was thinking about buying a T4 Diagnostic Tool and I just wondered, what would be a fair sort of price to charge for its use.
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I have been charged £40 for a diagnostic session , and that included the necessary tweaks to cure the problem
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Old 22nd June 2017, 16:32   #6
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I was thinking about buying a T4 Diagnostic Tool and I just wondered, what would be a fair sort of price to charge for its use.
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I'm not sure there is a huge market for T4 diagnosis these days

As said before, unless you've used one before, and more importantly know how to interpret what it is telling you there is little point in buying a T4, especially as you are unlikely to ever recoup the purchase cost

XPart agents generally charge circa £50 per session, I don't charge anywhere near that, if at all which very much depends upon how I'm feeling.

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Old 22nd June 2017, 20:37   #7
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As Brian and Gary have said there isn't any great market for T4 work these days

I'm lucky if I get to use mine once a fortnight and that includes all the specialist work involving other equipment and programmes.

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Old 22nd June 2017, 20:53   #8
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As said by others, its how you as a user interpret the information, and your understanding of correct and incorrect data. Otherwise your just going to cause expensive problems for yourself or others.
The best T4 operates I know of are all active on this club, so I would say advice they offer on this thread would be the best advice you could receive,
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Old 22nd June 2017, 21:01   #9
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I/we have had one 19 months now and I have only used it about 10 times to diagnose varying faults on my MGZT one being the ABS fault, saved lots of faffing about, it is mainly used at the nano meets we have by my son.

I never get to lay my hands on it but will be using it the weekend to add a MK2 BCU to my MGZT for the fob operating boot lift
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