Ford VCM IDS 3 vs VCM 2 clone


Look at the chart: what's the difference between VCM IDS 3 (SP277) and Chinese VCM 2 knock-off (SP177)? and which better for Ford or Mazda diagnosis and programming?
Look at the chart: what’s the difference between VCM IDS 3 (SP277) and Chinese VCM 2 knock-off (SP177)? and which better for Ford or Mazda diagnosis and programming?
 
Ford diagnostic tool
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Latest software version
Ford IDS 113
 
Mazda IDS 112
 
Mazda IDS v96
Operating system
Windows Vista: No
 
Windows XP: Need luck
Windows 7: Yes
Windows 8: Yes
Windows 10: Yes
Windows Vista: No
 
Windows XP: Yes
Windows 7: Yes
Windows 8: Need luck
Windows 10: Need luck
Language support
English, German, Spanish, Spanish(Mexico), Italy, French, French (Canada), Greece, Finland, Slovenia, Danmark ,Czechic, Chinese(Taiwan), Chinese(China), American English, Vietnam, Turkey, Thailand, Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Poland, Norwegian, Holand, Korea, Japanese, Indian, Hungary
It depends on that software is installed in the native or in the vmware machine.
 
VCM 2 china clone has different language support.
Diagnosis
Yes
Yes
Programming
Yes
Yes
Reprogramming
Yes
Yes
Conclusion
VCM IDS 3 works good with new operation systems like Windows 8 or 10. and it’s more friendly for different language users for the better language support.
 
 
VCM 2 cloned units esp. SP177-c1 is a decent Ford diagnostic tool for diagnosis, programming and reprogramming. Runs more stable with functions confirmed to work!
 
 
Note; VCM 2 clone language:
VCM 2 china clone has different language support.
VCM 2 VMware-install version supports:
English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Netherlands, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Slovak
 
VCM 2 sp177 (ids v101 vm), sp177-2 (ids v98 vm)
 
Note: you should buy a disk with new software installed before delivery. but there is no many languages for use.
 
 
VCM 2 native-install version supports:
English, German, Spanish, Spanish(Mexico), Italy, French, French (Canada), Greece, Finland, Slovenia, Danmark ,Czechic, Chinese(Taiwan), Chinese(China), American English, Vietnam, Turkey, Thailand, Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Poland, Norwegian, Holand, Korea, Japanese, Indian, Hungary
 
The native-install ver. includes VCM 2 sp177-c1 (ids v86), sp177-c (ids 108), sp177-1