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Originally Posted by cajunzl1

I was ready to pull the trigger on the Autel, now you have me looking at the X8

its difficult to understand the full cost of updates as well!

Originally Posted by easttxss

Updates, in general, are just to keep up with the new model years. When I bought my Autel, it came with 2 yrs of free updates and now if I want to update it, it's about $125 (don't remember exactly). But since I'm only using it on my cars and a few co-workers, none of which are newer than the 2022MY that I am currently updated to I see no reason to spend the money. Scanner still works just fine. It's the same way it has always been with scanners. Back in the day when I was a tech, I had to buy update cartridges from Snap-On every year. Now THAT was expensive, on top of a $5000 scanner.

As I said above, a bit of smooth talk got me onto a 5-year free update plan for the D8 (it came with 2 or 3 years "stock"), and it is good till Dec 2025. After that I'll either upgrade or don my then-newly acquired chatgpt skills and ask them nicely one more time