I have the Solus Ultra. It is a lot faster than the Solus Pro plus being touch screen. I had it since it came out 2 updates so far about to do the 3rd, and I will say that it isnt buggy at all.

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Plus with the ease of taking screen captures and uploading them to the PC is a nice feature. And another feature I like is I have had it for about a year and a half and only charged the battery 2 times. Reason, everytime you plug it into a vehicle the battery gets charged through the DLC. Only down fall I have seen so far is it seems I still have to double check the Codes on GM OBDI cars by jumping the ALDL. Believing what the scanner was telling me burnt me once. But as far as I know that was always a problem with snap on OBDI GM Diag.

But again besides this, it is a top notch scanner. Video driver ubuntu. Since I also need OBDI domestic and Asian most scanners that have obd 1 capability in the first place will do it well enough. I wouldn't base a scantool purchase on it's obd1 prowess unless that was all that i worked on. And if that was the case, i'd probably purchase the factory obd1 tools since many of them are outdated and could potentially be had for cheap.

Figure out what is most important to you, and then, if you discover it doesn't have the obd1 capabilities you want, just grab an old snap on mt2500 for the old stuff. I am late chiming in on this but keep in mind on the OBD1 stuff almost all of it had flash codes available requiring no scan tool for retrieving codes. On top of that the newer Snap on stuff including the Solus Pro does not have the legacy mode.

The legacy mode works better on most of the OBD 1 stuff. A brick or even an original Solus might be a better choice for dedicated OBD 1. If I recall correctly only GM and Chrysler were really good about having data available through a scan tool. Ford did not have scan data till about 1992. [/quote]Now you got me thinking maybe a brick and AE scanner.Or maybe ease with their OBDI[smiley=scratch-head02.gif] [/quote] I had a brick for some time while it does work well and can be had for cheap now, there are disadvantages to it.