I have the Snap on MT 2500 "red brick" for my BMW(s) and I notice that I also have the Ford/GM/Jeep cartridge for up to 1999 (my F250 is a '99) but I don't know what connector cable will fit my application. I know the ODB adapter under the steering wheel has a 16-pin port, 8 over 8, but, when I look on ebay for the right adapter, I only find something that has like 3 or 4 loose wires...

Does anyone use this MT2500 and could you send me a picture of the connector cable you use?

Thank you.

Jay

 

I owned one very briefly to use on my German cars but it was too finicky so I switched to an AST retriever / DS708 combo.

By 1999, I would expect that Ford was using the OBD2 connection even for Ford specific systems.

 

I had one with all the keys and it was only ODBC1 compaitable. even if you got a connector adaptor the problem is the rom on the keys is still only odbc1 aware and did not know of odbc2 configs. which is a big deal becuase of the massive epa related changes on odbc2 vehicles.

 

I'm pretty sure that Snapon continued issue updates for them to the mid 2000's so they should be able to support OBD2 on cars newer than 1996.

 

If you have the Domestic cartridge, updated to '99, then all you need is the standard OBD2 adapter plug, the one you would use on nearly all cars '96+ ( except maybe some "exotic" hold outs like Ferrari, Maserati, etc..), and I believe its the "K2" personality key.
My truck is actually a 2000 (7.3L/6-spd), but my cartridge is only updated to '99. I just put '99 for the year when entering the vin, and it works. There is some minor weirdness with 1 or 2 PIDs due to difference between the years, but everything else works fine. I am able to do CCT, Glow Plug, and Buzz tests with no problem, along with standard KOEO, KOER, and Continuous Memory code scans.

If I had nothing, I'm not sure I would seek out an MT-2500 to work on my truck, as opposed to many of the newer "slicker" options out there, including cell phone/tablet based systems. But I already own it and it works, its just a bit dated.

See my comments above, and the quoted one below. What you state is simply not true. As long as you have the proper cartridge(s), the MT-2500 will work on OBD2 vehicles.

Yes. Near the end,they switched to the black cartridges, which were programmable. With the older red ones, the actual ROM chip had to be physically changed to "upgrade" the supported vehicles, but due to limited memory capacity, you often had to lose older years to make room for newer ( or have extra cartridges). I believe the black cartridges solved that. I could be wrong, but I think the final update was to support 2004 vehicles. After that Snap-On introduced a new scanner ( I forget whether the Moddis or the Soluss was first).