Anyone near Houston can recommend a dealer to get it activated for cheap? I got it installed following Youtube, then called around. The lowest cost one dealer asked was like $125. How come you guys can get it for free or $40?

 

If you're handy with computers at all just buy a wireless OBD II adapter and activate it with FORScan. See the sticky in this forum for details. I paid a dealer $50 to activate mine, then was kicking myself when I realized I could've got FORScan and done it myself for free. If you still want a dealer to do it, just call around. It literally takes them 5 mins to connect to the truck and activate it, so they shouldn't charge anything really, but $50 was the lowest I could find near me.

 

Thanks!

Saw some earlier posts, and everyone was saying it has to be a Ford dealer. But I'll look into it. I called every dealer within 20~30 miles, the price goes from 125 to 160.

 

The OBD II costs $80 though.

 

But you will have it to do several other things and if you're good you may be able to do it for others and get some tip$ for it.

 

^^^This. It's nice to be able to read DTCs on other vehicles and also log data as you drive. Well worth it. Given equal costs, I'd rather pay for a tool that I keep than a one time service any day.

 

For anyone who is interested, the OBDLink MX is on sale for $53.57 with discount code earlybird33 on Scantool website.

https://www.scantool.net/obdlink-mxbt/

DIDN'T see the deal posted already.