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Very few diagnostic kits work on Iveco, as the vehicle park is pretty insignificant, and is the same reason very few covered Landrovers. They simply decided it wasn't worth the development cost for a minority of users.
Last Snap-On I used didn't even list Iveco. We had to either use Delphi, or Jaltest.
Autocom is the same as Delphi (and Wurth, and Eclipse).
Autocom supply the hardware and software, but will customise the software for anybody who wants to resell it. The main difference is with what tech data comes with the bundle.
When we had Texa, they didn't cover Landrover, and despite being their largest UK customer, and having a few hundred Defenders to maintain, they weren't interested in adding it.
However it did work brilliantly on anything Italian, but they are an Italian company. Texa was the best all rounder for a while, but they went closed shop with DTCs, converting standard OBD codes to their own custom codes, so you were completely tied into their ecosystem.
I think for pure commercial, Jaltest is the current best option.
Jaltest does cover some light commercials, but it's not really their strong point. They added it as it was a selling point, as a lot of commercial/fleet garages would also fix vans, so those type of garages would often want one machine that covered most of what they done.
Texa used to win as it was the best all rounder, as they covered Light and Heavy to a pretty good standard. Jaltest would beat them in terms of pure functionality for heavy, whereas a few of the car orientated suppliers would beat them on the car side. However Jaltest was more expensive, but for the majority of vehicles it covered, you got a reasonable amount of mechanical tech info, full wiring diagrams, diagnostic procedures, and if what you wanted wasn't on the machine, Eclipse (UK supplier) had access to most manufacturer's sites and could get what you wanted. Unless it was something with a Volvo badge, in which case nobody, apart from the dealers were getting any tech info.
