Types of Diagnostic Tools

Before covering the types of diagnostic tools, what is a diagnostic tool, where is it used, and what are its advantages?

These are worth touching on.

A diagnostic tool can be defined as a device that connects to the Electronic Control Unit (ECU) through the vehicle's OBD socket and provides its user with information about the condition of the vehicle.

In parallel with advancing vehicle technology, diagnostic tools have kept pace with this development and have become a constantly evolving, self-renewing industry with ever-increasing variety.

Today's diagnostic tools not only provide information about the current condition of the vehicle, but also incorporate many other functions such as clearing existing fault conditions, resolving them, performing coding, offering online programming support and much more, providing great advantages both to the vehicle driver and to the specialist in service operations.

With the standard established in America and Europe, the use of the same OBD socket in all vehicles became mandatory, and as a result all diagnostic tools became usable on all vehicles. Nevertheless, a wide variety of diagnostic tools have taken their place on the market depending on the vehicle, the user or their features.

If we look at the main categories, we can list the following types:

• Passenger vehicle diagnostic tools
• Heavy-duty vehicle diagnostic tools
• Construction machinery diagnostic tools
• Agricultural machinery diagnostic tools
• Marine group diagnostic tools

As the company with the widest range of diagnostic tools in Turkey, Nitro Mekatronik is able to serve all of these groups and stands out from its competitors with its sales and after-sales service.

Holding the distributorships of the world's leading companies, Nitro Mekatronik stands out with Autel, Launch and Thinkcar in passenger and heavy-duty vehicle diagnostic tools, while making its presence felt in the industry with Jaltest in the heavy-duty, construction machinery, agricultural and marine groups.

Apart from these, there are also diagnostic tools specific to each vehicle brand. These devices, which provide efficient diagnostic operations only on that particular brand, generally operate with the support of software installed on a computer.

Examples include VCM2-VCM3 for Ford vehicles, MDI for Opel and GM vehicles, GDS for Hyundai vehicles, or in the heavy-duty group, MAN T200 for MAN vehicles and Eltrac Easy for Iveco vehicles.