I reported a few weeks ago that I hate the Foxwell NT510 Elite Professional code scanner because it's incredibly slow and freezes up a lot.
I returned it and got an iCarsoft LR II. (This is different from the iCarsoft LR V2, as I explained in an earlier post.)
The device interface is inferior in some ways; most notably, there's no way to tell it to "just scan for all the codes"; you have to step through each of the subsystems manually!
That's ridiculous. But the iCarsoft is so much faster that it takes a few minutes, instead of taking an hour or 2 like doing so would with the Foxwell.
It's almost like it had electronics inside instead of gears and rods!

Also, though I was dismayed that the iCarsoft errored out on one important subsystem that it shouldn't have, at least it errors out and tells you so, instead of just keeping you waiting forever like the Foxwell. Also, it didn't drain my car battery completely dead like the Foxwell did, but maybe that's just because I didn't have to leave it attached and on for hours.

The instructions were, however, even less clear than the instructions for the Foxwell; they're very badly translated, and I think some of its functions aren't documented.
But the BIG disadvantage of the iCarsoft is that it has no supporting desktop application!
So you can't, for instance, save error codes to your desktop for your records. Nor can you easily print out all the error codes you found and their meanings; you gotta tediously scroll through them on the device and write them down by hand. Maybe there's a way to read the SD card from your computer and copy a text file from it. I'm not gonna try to figure it out now.

If the Foxwell didn't freeze so often, and didn't kill car batteries, I'd rank it above the iCarsoft, for the convenience of the auto-scan mode, and the desktop application that can summarize the results. But it freezes so much that the auto-scan will drain your battery dead and still never finish; and you won't GET all of the codes to summarize because when subsystems freeze, they return no codes.

 

Thanks for sharing your experience with both of them.

 

these things are so slow and clunky even SDD is faster

they’re mostly useful if you keep them in the car

 

I've no experience with these things. I take it they read all the Jag codes, including the Air Suspension Fault codes?

 

I am wondering if there is an icarsoft tool that can set airride height as well as show live transmission oil temperature? Thank you all for any information on the different icarsoft tools/versions.

 

Right. I don't think either of them reads ALL the codes for most models. It varies by model, but they read like 95% of the codes for most models, IIRC. Definitely including the air suspension codes. (In the end I had no air suspension code after recharging the car battery, even though there was a hole blown in one air spring & the suspension was completely lowered. I coulda saved myself a lot of trouble and money by just crawling under the car and looking first.)

 

I don't know about showing live transmission oil temperature. I'm not aware that setting airride height is possible in any way, even by a dealer. Maybe it is; I just haven't heard about it. The scanners both had extra dynamic-monitoring functions that I didn't explore, so I can't be sure on either count.

 

Air ride height can be set using jlr sdd. You just have to input height measurements that you calculate to "fool" the system as to what it is seeing.

By that if the height from the center of the wheel to the car body is actually Xcm if you input X+ cm or X-cm it will take that as true.

 

hi
i have the thinkcar2 its very reasonable £ to buy i got mine from ebay, they allow you 3 vin numbers (cars) then you pay thro paypal for more cars if required
it scans modules ie health check its fast and shows all codes for each system , then u can screenshot or save or clear codes etc.
i programmed a new key with this scanner, its an extra for keys cost approx £7, well worth it imo i also purchased the suspension to look at codes compressor etc
its a good buy if you dont mind buying the extras for certain items you need !!

 

I have both the icarsoft i930, & the Foxwell NT510, keep one in each Jaguar.
Nothing to add, good or bad, to what's been said already.
With less than $200 spent, together for both, no complaints here,
Good to have, as they do give you an idea, of what your looking at.
Recently i have acquired all the necessary bits, & pieces.
To get the Mongoose, computer, & the V130 SDD software, up & running.
Been looking around in there, for a few hr's now, there's a lot to see & learn.

 

i have the Foxwell nt680 pro as i work on other cars and it was slow until i updated it. now it works great and reads all the systems on my 05 xl8l with no problem.

 

Does the LR VII support bleeding the ABS brake system? I bought the iCarsoft LR V2.0, and it does NOT support this function. I think the oldest XJ it supported was a 2010 unfortunately.