Thanks for the kind words on my previous post John.

You are absolutely right, the £100 deal was an excellent way of getting garages involved with ESI, as it has always been assumed that it ONLY goes with using a KTS machine. The reality is far different, with the information system being just as useful to people with non-Bosch diagnostic kit. Indeed in a very uncertain business I can catagorically say that ESI is completely unrivalled in what it covers.

However I would say one thing here, it is not a replacement for Autodata, we have now discovered that even with the M&P discs added it is does not encompass all of what Autodata has to offer, as well as that of the basic ESI package.

My advice to you guys who are thinking of 'swapping' to ESI is this, use both, the small amount extra compared to buying ESI C9 + M&P will pay dividends in the end.

As you quite rightly say, ESI has HUGE amounts of info in it, but many who have never had ANY training on ESI will struggle to find all the info contained within it, another issue is that those who just subscribed to the C4 disc before Christmas will not have got the C Archive information, with all the old microfiche loaded as well.

As a trainer for Bosch I give the 2 day training course on the KTS units. About 60-65% of the course is spent on ESI, as the KTS section is actually far easier to use so requires less training. Therefore at least a day & a bit is spent on ESI alone. This basically means that using ESI is difficult without the training.

But, as ever you can't have something for nothing, so the £100 deal, whilst excellent to get new users on board, does suffer as they couldn't afford to add a day's training as well.

I hope other who were in this boat found my previous post some help as well.

Kind regards, Rob.