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Used this tool a fair bit It’s ok but for the money but It really depends on what you want out of a scan tool It wont do a lot of things Much cheaper units will do that are more brand specific but if you’re looking for an entry dealer level tool it’s not a bad choice.
Advantage: DS708 is an excellent diagnostic tool, works on over 50 US, Asian and European vehicle makes, supports WIFI and USB connection and is able to program key for some cars. As quoted from Amazon DS708 review: It does everything the genesys and the high end snap-on scanner do for less then a quarter of the price.
Disadvantage: The DS708 manual that comes with it only has basic information, not very user-friendly for beginners. The connect time is a little longer in comparison to snap-on tools.
If you still need one, please feel free to pm me. Mine is 100% original and I I will offer some discount for forum members. (Moderators can delete this post if it breaks forum rules.)
Autel makes some decent equipment. After watching a few of the videos they (Autel) have for this product, it looks like a stripped down version of the MaxiSYS Pro the last shop I worked at had. The only knock we eventually had for it was that we found in certain instances the data polling rate wasn’t fast enough to show a sensor momentarily dropping out. However it quickly became the go to scanner as opposed to our very expensive Verus.
I’m also getting the vibe from their videos that it has just short of a dealer level scan tool’s capabilities. To the point that I’m actually intrigued by it. I would buy it and a cheap laptop to use as a remote station, which you can do with it, throw in an SSD and make sure it has at least 4GB of ram. Then bob would be your uncle. I’m also wondering if the unit’s SD card is upgradeable since they are SO cheap.
Guy I work with has the smaller version of it, and it works ok. I have heard some claim that Autel actually used OE software in their scan tool, in some cases allegedly without the OE permission. I say that without first hand knowledge. They can’t be any worse than OTC. That is about the worst tool out there for scan tools as far as I am concerned. Bosch may have done some good when they bought OTC out some time ago, but I’m not holding my breath. Now does Autel make the Matco maximus? I used that a few times at a fly by night dump I worked ever so briefly and laughed at it. Had a Chevy set a P0420 code, and it wouldn’t give a code description for it. It simply said see OE manual. If you only use a scan tool as a glorified code reader and sometimes review data, then I wouldn’t spend a lot of money on a scan tool. If you’re a “power user” or want to become one, then you’ll want to invest more into the tool. Having an O-scope/graphing meter, access to identifix, Mitchell and Alldata at your finger tips can help a lot when figuring stuff out, especially the harder stuff. Autel can probably do some of that, I can’t tell you though. I’m mostly familiar with snap on stuff, and somewhat with IDS and some with Tech2
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