I’m here today to do a review of this Foxwell NT301 obd2 and 2obd code reader in this
explanation review i’ll be going over the features and functions of this awesome
tool and showing you how to use it now let’s get right to it here’s the actual
unit which I’ll go over in just a few moments but inside the packaging you
also get this awesome users manual which goes over everything for the unit and
here’s the packaging itself you can see very simple packaging on the back it
shows you the features the notable features and then it also comes with
this cable right here to connect it via USB alright let’s get right to it as you
can see when you take a look at the actual unit it looks very durable
I like the coloration of it because you’re not going to lose something like
this I love it when tools have these vibrant colors because they’re really
hard to eat hard to lose okay now if you take a look over here there’s a whole
bunch of buttons I’ll show you exactly what they do in just a moment around the
outside of the casing right here is this nice and durable material which is great
because you’re not gonna have to worry when you’re using it about damaging it
or anything like that because it feels very durable so it’s gonna be able to
withstand quite a bit you have some technical information on the back right
here and what we’re gonna do now is we’re gonna get to the good part of this
review which is to actually plug it in and show you how it works so right here
we have the actual cable I’m gonna take this I’m gonna plug it into the OBD port
right over here let’s just plug it in and you’ll see the unit starts up as you
can see right there now I’m only gonna go through the most common features and
the most useful functions in my opinion which are these two sections but I’ll
tell you what the other ones mean okay so I think you see first and foremost
color display it looks awesome it’s easy to read so we’ll go to this one review
is basically when you can review the data that has been stored on the unit
for the most part so if you stored that on the unit you can review the data I
don’t believe that I have any data stored which is correct no data
available so I’m just gonna go back right over here okay the next thing is
print data which is very straightforward about gives you some additional
information and setup allows you to adjust the various options for the unit
now we’re gonna go to this section right here which is the DTC lookup now this is
a very useful tool because it allows you to look up the codes okay so some codes
are stored many codes are stored on the unit and this dtc lookup
allows you to look up the codes so i’m gonna hit enter and as you can see you
can actually change the code right over here and then you can look it up and for
some codes obviously it’s gonna have multiple manufacturers so for that code
you’re gonna be able to choose the manufacturer so i’m gonna hit enter
right over here manufacturer specific codes are found press any key to select
vehicle make so we’re just obviously going to select let’s just select let’s
select cadillac for this code right here so it says please refer to vehicle
service manual okay that is what this code is associated with all right so
we’re gonna go back right over here back again and what we’re gonna do is we’re
gonna go to this section right here which is the most useful section
actually before that i’m gonna show you the quick read functions before I show
you that section because these are a little bit more simplistic so first and
foremost we have a read button right over here this is a up button but it’s
also a read button it’s a quick read button so if I press and hold it down
its gonna actually pull the codes from the car okay so as you can see it’s
linking to vehicle and keep an eye over here because these are these little
light indicators that allow you to know what’s going on with the engine green
means good so you can see there’s no code stored in the module
so basically green means that everything’s okay yellow means that you
know something might be wrong and red means that something is wrong those are
the that’s the easiest way to explain it okay the next thing that I want to go
over is another quick feature which is I am readiness so if you just push this
button right here it gives you the IM readiness status so once again it’s
gonna link up to the vehicle just like that and we’re gonna see once again
green means good green means that nothing is wrong we’re gonna see these
status of the vehicle right here as you can see this is the IM readiness it
gives you a quick little view of what’s going on you know green is good
obviously certain things are not applicable depending on the vehicle and
the year and so forth but that’s basically the quick version of the eye
readiness so I’m gonna hit back so let’s stop it stops beeping at me now we’re
gonna go to the obd2 ii obd scan right over here we’re gonna do is we’re gonna
hit enter try to do this with one hand so I’m doing my best and it’s gonna give
us a wide variety of options so this is the main purpose in my opinion of this
unit itself is to actually read and scan the car and deal with anything that you
might find upon scanning ok so as you can see right here oh good so what we’re
gonna do now is it says erase previously stored data to save data from this test
I’m gonna hit no I don’t want to save this data because it’s green
everything’s good I don’t need to save this data and now as you can see it
wants me to select one of the modules right here I’m gonna select the first
one and we’ll actually take a little bit of a further look now there are many
options read codes is what we already did we read the codes when we did that
quick that quick quick scan right over there erased codes can be used to erase
the codes live deep live data is is what we’re gonna be using and I am writing
this you can see there’s so many different options right over here but
we’re gonna be going to live data so check this out this is one of my
favorite features clicking live data and it’s gonna actually show me some live
aspects of the car and will be able to see those live aspects on a graph so
it’s pretty cool we’re just gonna let it scan the vehicle and you can choose to
view data record data or playback data we’re gonna view it now we’re gonna view
the complete data set you can adjust those options right over there if you
want we’re gonna move down and what I want to show you is probably the most
common one that you’re gonna know that anyone would know that is watching this
and that is the RPM so once again we’re gonna go find the RPM today did I miss
it I must have missed it here it is rpm there we go so I’m gonna click that
right there and as you can see it now shows us on a graph the RPM of the
vehicle which is really cool because I mean you can look at the tachometer as
you can see my cars idling over here and you can see roughly what it is but this
is gonna tell you the exact fluctuation so you can make a decision based on that
if the RPM is of if the RPM of your car is something that you’re concerned about
and that’s basically it I’m just gonna hit back a few times we’re gonna get out
of this and back to the main screen and that’s basically at the NT301
yes we’re gonna exit the anti 301 by Foxwell is an awesome awesome unit as
you can see color display durable unit easy to use I’ve just shown you the
basic features but you can go way more in depth with regards to what you want to do with the vehicle.
Source : Foxwell NT301 OBD2 Scanner Review-Code Reader For Cars
