all right folks we've got another scan tool to
look at today this one's by autofix it's the autofix D1 light in fact autofix is owned by
autel it runs autel software and it's really good so let's get into it and check it
out comes in a standard blow mold case plastic latches comes with the greeting here comes with
a packing list and a quick start guide however what I found odd on this packing list
is it shows the tablet itself the charging brick the packing list quick reference guide
the t
he VCI which is up there I'll show you in a second the carrying case and a type c USB
cable it does not mention anything about a USB hub that it came with and it's even lit it's
even Lenovo branded if you can see that it's Lenovo branded but and then it comes with the
the charging brick and then it comes with the type A type c charging cable
however if you take the USB hub plug that in there now you've got type c to
type c anyway what's odd is this setup this setup is not showing on the pac
king list however
I have seen this setup in various pictures of this kit on the internet so this this isn't
the only one that came like this but either way it works fine and honestly you having an
extra USB hub isn't the end of the world anyway there of course is the charging brick and
the bag there it's got the North America got the North American plug on it you've got the Wireless VCI which this VCI
did need is a firmware update and in order to do the firmware update I'll show you
in the
tablet but you connect the cable between the tablet and the VCI there is a
USB port on the end of this VCI and that is either for reflashing firmware to the VCI
or you can connect a cord from here to the tablet and run a wired connection instead of a
wireless vehicle connection and if you can see in the camera when I press the button they've got
a built-in flashlight right in the end of the uh at the DLC Port there so when you're underneath
the underneath the dash you can hit that button a
nd you can find the port under the vehicle
dash pretty easily so the tablet itself is pretty darn cool let's get this up here this
thing is uh this is very similar to the autel 808 series and for a comparison let me grab an
808. okay so there's the autofix D1 light versus the autel 808 essentially it's the same size
screen but if you'll notice when I tip them up the D1 light is extremely thin
compared to an 808 this upside down okay so for comparison side by side here's the
autofix D1 ligh
t and here's the autel 808 series you can see the autofix is indeed running the
autel software you know it looks just like on the screen here they're basically the exact same size
screen between the two devices this one is just a tad higher resolution probably not even measurable
but it is a tad higher resolution but the tablet itself if I tip this up and you look in the camera
it's pretty thin this way versus the 808 is pretty thick the 808 has this big rubber padding on the
side and this
is a much thinner lighter compact tablet it's basically just a tablet versus a a
scan tool which depending which Camp you're in you may prefer a lighter overall lighter device than
this big bulky device however maybe you know in a daily professional setting in a shop maybe the big
bulkier one is uh is a better for longevity but for maybe for personal use this one is a little
bit better I personally am really liking this smaller form factor it's pretty good we'll look at
the back here so of
course the 808 has a kickstand with the VLC holder and on the back of the D1
there's uh this one does have a camera and the 808 does not have a camera but there's no kickstand
on the back here let's check out the specs on this thing and then we'll take it outside and hook
it up to the truck all right I'll put these uh specs up on screen for you to see a little easier
the autofix D1 light is compatible with can FD and doip protocols it's compatible with Fiat
Chrysler automobiles secure Gatew
ay Auto off it's got a four core processor it's an operating
system with Android 9 which is a tad older than the newest version of the autel 808 but it's light
years newer than the older version of the auto 808 so this is kind of between the old 808s and
the new 808s as far as operating system it has two gigs of RAM 64 gigabits of storage that's
a seven inch display screen like the 808 but it's a 1280 by 800 LCD and I can't remember the 808
but I think it is a tad less resolution uh the int
ernal battery is 5800 milliamp hour that's an
eight megapixel rear camera which the 808 does not have at all Wi-Fi five got 2.4 and 5.0 gigahertz
it's got two USB ports which will show you one of them is uh or on the go type c and the other
one is the host type c a wireless VCI connector instead of a corded connection to the vehicle and
this is an OBD2 scan tool it is designed to work on any vehicle sold in the United States from
19 1996 and Beyond it's still the current legal standard toda
y as of April of 2023. so to come
to show you the differences in connection here so you can see on the 808 at
a power button a USB a an HDMI a memory card slot and uh many USBS the
oldest of the of the smaller USB ports and on the D1 light there's a rubber thing
here you can hook with your fingernail and open that up and in there is a memory card
slot a standard USBC through data connection and a USBC on the gold connection so two USB C ports
on there but uh this thing is really good I'm n
ot sure why they call it light I have an idea why but
this thing is full bi-directional control and has full resets and full relearn capabilities the I
don't see anything missing on this that I don't have on my autel 908 or on any of my other 808s
this thing on all the vehicles that I've plugged it into or that I have access to this thing
does everything all my other scan tools do they make the auto fix in like three or four
different models there's the D1 light and the D1 which are both th
e same physical Dimension
and I believe at one point there was probably a reason for that between the D1 and the D1 light
because back before July 1st of last summer 2022 some 808s autel 808s had full
bi-directional control and some didn't and they came out with a major update and gave all
the 808s full bi-directional control which several other scan tool manufacturers then went along
with and made their scan tools full bi-directional control so previous to July the July 1st 2022
update th
ere was probably a reason to have a D1 light and a D1 non-light but now it's the same
thing that's how that's how I see it and then they do make it in a D1 uh Pro and a D1 Max or D1
Ultra something like that and those are uh those are a bigger 10 inch tablet with uh more RAM and a
faster processor and larger memory inside so I'll put this up on screen so you can see it better
I had a few questions for the people at autofix and here's what I asked them I said how long
is the free update peri
od this autofix which is running autel scan tool software has
a two-year free update for the customer now I have not found an autel scan tool that
has two-year free updates usually they're all just one year across the board so this is you're
getting twice the updates than if you were to buy an autel branded scan tool uh so how much do the
annual updates cost after the free update period has ended they're 119 dollars a year so even
when they do expire the free updates expire the annual updat
es are cheaper than the autel
updates and it's the same autel software does the D1 continue to operate at its full
capacity at the current software level if the customer decides to not update the tool after
the free update period has ended and it says all features will continue to work as as they did
during the free update period how long is the manufacturer's warranty it's one year does autofix
provide customer service and technical assistance directly to the end user what is the best way
to contact the customer service tech department email address phone number and they said yes
Specialists are available via phone email and chat for us and Canada the contact info is and
they list it there you can see it on the screen and of course there's a phone number and an email
address and then lastly how does the D1 compare to the autel line of scan tools obviously the D1
is smaller and lighter than the autel 808 series of tools but how does the D1 software compare
to the 808 series
says the autofix is the most cost effective tool in the autel scanner series
with many features but at a lower price there is not much difference in terms of software but the
D1 light has the advantage in terms of hardware and then uh I did have another question
for them which I put on its own on its own sheet here I'll put it up on the screen
again so you can see it I want to know a little bit about the autel and auto fix you know the
company background I asked them is autofix a new brand
from autel was autofix originally intended
for sale in the European market I first heard of autofix about a year ago but for some reason they
were not really marketed for sale here in the USA I'm just wondering what the history of the autofix
brand is so I can let my viewers know a little bit about the company and their answer was autofix
was launched for sale in 2021 primarily in Europe and North America at that time offline sales
performed quite well which is why we are now focusing on ex
panding into the online Market to
reach customers all over the world in the future so like I said I have seen them in the past but
I didn't I didn't know much about them until recently anyway now that I've got all that out
of out of the way I wanted to show one last thing this particular device is the autofix B1 light
battery tester and it's to be used in conjunction with your scan tool in fact I'll show you on the
scan tool right here this battery tester app is what's used to run this smar
t battery tester now
just to be clear this does not come with the scan tool this is a separate extra purchase and I'm
going to make a separate video about this device so today's video is only about the scan the D1
light scan tool however shortly after that video comes out there'll be a video about this device
and we'll go into more detail but that's enough from inside the shop let's take it out to the
truck and hook it up and we'll take a look at the scan tool it'll be right now and here we
are
it's actually been a day or two but a split second for you guys all right uh we're gonna make this
quick this video is already getting to be long enough uh I've already gone through a hotel
scan tool software multiple multiple times on my channel so we're not gonna I mean the software
is exactly the same it's just different Hardware this time I've got the VCI connector plugged into
underneath the dash we'll go into uh Diagnostics here we'll show you how this thing works and uh
right n
ow I didn't even have to select anything it just knows that I'm connected to this truck
and you can just hit the blue the blue circle that's one thing nice about the newest software
as soon as you plug in the VCI connector just automatically goes in and finds the vehicle
if possible probably probably can't find every vehicle you know automatically decoded but
the majority of the vehicles you plug that thing in and as soon as you hit the service
function bam it says is this the vehicle and y
ou hit the one button that says yes and
you're in you know so that's pretty nice automatic transfer case for button
selectable Dual Zone manual up level radio under 8600 rear drum brake that's the vehicle I've already showed you guys you know
the auto scans and the and all that stuff but just to show you to prove to
you that the level of scan tool this is I'm going to go into diagnosis I'm going to go
into control unit and I have found on the the lower end bi-directional control scan tools
on
this vehicle and this will vary from make and model to make and model uh there's two things
that I know for sure that only the higher end bi-directional scan tools have for this vehicle
versus the lower end bi-directional scan tools for this vehicle and one of them is uh we can go
into powertrain we're going to special functions and this one has the uh let's
see where fuel composition reset the cheaper bi-directional control scan tools do
not have that function and then the another one
is going to be if we go into the body control
module no that's not it if we go into the if we go into the passenger presence system
and go into special functions to re-zero the seat weight sensor and the passenger seat uh
again only the upper level bi-directional scan tools have that functionality for this vehicle
now those two functions may not even be on your vehicle like I said every vehicle you plug your
you plug your scan tool into is going to have different options based on the manufa
cturer make
and model uh and I want to get too in depth here but a lot of people have this misconception that
it's the scan tool that does all this stuff well the scan tool is only showing you features and
functions that the automotive manufacturer has programmed into the vehicle's computer the scan
tool isn't doing anything it's just sending the request of a function that is given to us by the
software engineers at the manufacturer in this case it'd be GM the GM software people already
wr
ote all of these features and functions into the computer the scan tool is just showing them to us
so if there's a feature and function on here that you see on my GMC truck and you plug it into uh
you know Toyota RAV4 and you're going Hey where's the fuel alcohol composition reset well that that
vehicle probably doesn't have that programmed into it because that vehicle probably has a sensor
on it and the GMS didn't back in that era anyway until I get too off the off topic here
but we're goi
ng to go and look at let's look at some live data it's going to look like any other
live data stream that I've shown on my channel from the last five or six autel scan tool videos
that I've made let's go to engine one live data so there it is it got all the different pids data pids so for example let's just pick
one here we'll do engine speed because that's at the top and it's at the the easiest
uh we'll go show selected and then down here oh we can do a graph and if I rev It Up you can see
now I can
zoom in on this graph well first of all I can make a full screen and then I can zoom in
on the on the graph give you more resolution so that shows you the live data
Freeze Frame clear data you can record all this save it as a file play
it back later you know it's pretty good let's go to uh engine live data too now again the data pids you see on here are not necessarily the data pids that you're
going to see on your vehicle I mentioned it when in one of my other videos a guy compla
ined
to me that I scrolled through these too quickly he wanted to see the data pids well unless you're
plugged into a 2006 GMC pickup they're all going to be different so what shows on my vehicle is
irrelevant to your vehicle but this autofix scan tool I'm telling you what this thing is is 100
autel software and I've said it before uh tells my favorite scan tool and I'm sure there will be
others that can that can say you know snap-ons better well sure it is it's also you know five
to ten t
imes the price uh for your average guy in my opinion autel scan tool software is about
the best you can get so and then to buy it through the auto fix brand you're saving money on the
hardware you're getting twice the free update period from one year to two years I'll tell us
one year it's autofix is two years and then when you do have to buy the updates the updates
themselves are even cheaper so and plus it's this nice little light form factor very light and
it's not heavy and bulky uh you
know the thing is uh it's basically a full bi-directional autel 808
scan tool uh but in the slim down version and by slim I don't mean software slim down I just mean
physically slimmed down so this thing's really good uh if you're in the market for a scan tool
at the moment uh this one is hard to beat at one time I was always telling people that there was
a different scan tool that was kind of The Sweet Spot for Price versus functionality but this one
in my opinion now has taken that has t
aken that spot the overall functionality of this scan tool
versus the price really makes it hard to beat if you're in the market for a scan tool seriously
check this one out it's really good all right guys that's all I have for now please be sure to like
share and subscribe for more thanks for watching
Comments