Forscan vs Carista

[hilmar2k]

Anyone use Carista to make modifications? I'm an Audi guy, and Carista is great for that platform. I've made tons of changes, and the UI us super intuitive. I just noticed that the 6G Bronco was added to their supported vehicle list. However, it seems that you now need their specific adapter. Before I dropped ~$50 on it, I figured I'd see if anyone had any experience with it.

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[Brian_B]

Never heard of it but interested since Forscan may be on the way out. I mean I hope not but always nice to have alternatives

 

[hilmar2k]

Never heard of it but interested since Forscan may be on the way out. I mean I hope not but always nice to have alternatives

Carista is phone based and uses a Bluetooth adapter. It's way slicker than Forscan (at least in my Audi experience).

 

[PWillette]

Interesting. @flip @Ducati1098...any experience?

 

[crenca]

Interesting, I have yet to dive into Forscan (but it is on my short term to do list) and was wondering it being a Russian program/effort about it's general availability and update status.

Is Carista Russian or eastern European? Ironical, but I'd be more comfortable if it was an Asian effort

 

[hilmar2k]

Is Carista Russian or eastern European? Ironical, but I'd be more comfortable if it was an Asian effort

Bulgarian, according to their website.

 

[crenca]

Going over their website the modification list seems pretty limited - perhaps more coming in the future? I don't see any disabling of 'double honk' for example, but perhaps it is labeled something different...

https://carista.com/en/supported-cars/ford/bronco/6th-gen

 

[Ducati1098]

Interesting. @flip @Ducati1098...any experience?

Nope, Can't say I've ever heard of this before

 

[RagnarKon]

In my experience it was garbage for anything other than Volkswagen products. Which makes sense because Carista originally built for VW vehicles. Forscan for Ford, Carista for VW/Audi, JScan for Jeep/Dodge/Crystler, etc. etc.

BUT, I will admit this was several years ago at this point, haven't used Carista lately.

 

[brocosaurus]

Worked great for our RAV4 but wasn’t useful on the bronco. Seems like it is very limited support at the moment other than for reading codes and checking ECU.

 

[flip]

Never heard of but we can't get a vehicle to program correctly with a hardwired connection to FDRS. Not sure I'd even want to try it with a dongle and BT. That said, Ford does have their VCM lite which I've used to pull codes and I think you can do some key programming but there's a reason Ford won't allow other functions. I bet they bricked a bunch of stuff in testing leading up to it's release.

 

[adcam]

This is like Carly for BMW. It is a subscription plan. I’ll stick to Forscan for now.

 

[bloominguez]

Carista has worked great for my Toyota, tons of small modifictions. I'll be trying it (yes, the new version) on the Bronco soon.

 

[Brian_B]

Carista has worked great for my Toyota, tons of small modifictions. I'll be trying it (yes, the new version) on the Bronco soon.

Keep us posted.

 

[Brian_B]

This is like Carly for BMW. It is a subscription plan. I’ll stick to Forscan for now.

Well, Forscan already is an annual license thing (barring just rolling back the date or throwing burner email addresses for 2-month trial). And FDRS is same thing, timed license access. So... not really any different there.

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