Bought a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 98,180 miles on it

11 messages, Last post on Sep 11, 2009 at 2:38 AM

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#10 of 11 Re: Bought a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 98,180 miles on it [LASHAWN] by scrat1 Sep 10, 2009 (5:44 pm)
Replying to: LASHAWN (Aug 25, 2009 9:55 am) My wife has the same car 2005 dodge grand caravan about the same mileage. her check engine light just came on today. Question i have i want to get a code reader to find out what the code is. what is a good code reader to get. i was at autozone and it seems like there are so many different types. not too sure which to get then once i get the code reader where would i find out what the codes mean. i had a lot of experience on obd1 but not obd2 type of codes. Replies to this message: srs_49 (Sep 11, 2009 2:38 am)
#11 of 11 Re: Bought a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 98,180 miles on it [scrat1] by srs_49 Sep 11, 2009 (2:38 am)
Replying to: scrat1 (Sep 10, 2009 5:44 pm) Unless you do a lot of work on cars, a basic one that will 1) read out and display the codes and 2) allow you to reset them, is all you need. With the code in hand, there are plenty of resources on the internet that will tell you what the code means, so you don't need an OBD-II reader that does that for you. I have a ~$50 Accutron that does those two things, and it's worked fine for my uses.

#10 of 11: Re: Bought a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 98,180 miles on it [LASHAWN] by scrat1; Sep 10, 2009 (5:44 pm)

Replying to: LASHAWN (Aug 25, 2009 9:55 am)

My wife has the same car 2005 dodge grand caravan about the same mileage. her check engine light just came on today. Question i have i want to get a code reader to find out what the code is. what is a good code reader to get. i was at autozone and it seems like there are so many different types. not too sure which to get then once i get the code reader where would i find out what the codes mean. i had a lot of experience on obd1 but not obd2 type of codes.

srs_49 (Sep 11, 2009 2:38 am)

#11 of 11: Re: Bought a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan with 98,180 miles on it [scrat1] by srs_49; Sep 11, 2009 (2:38 am)

Replying to: scrat1 (Sep 10, 2009 5:44 pm)

Unless you do a lot of work on cars, a basic one that will 1) read out and display the codes and 2) allow you to reset them, is all you need. With the code in hand, there are plenty of resources on the internet that will tell you what the code means, so you don't need an OBD-II reader that does that for you.

I have a ~$50 Accutron that does those two things, and it's worked fine for my uses.