lexia 3 equipment, Advice please

[Delivery_Driver]

Any one know the best place to start to buy or acquire lexia 3 equipment ? the full package inc all equipment I would require.
Any download links for free or links for full / complete equipment sales, I think I might need this as now I own a Picasso...LOL

[GiveMeABreak]

I would suggest Easydiagnostics from personal esperience - however they have just changed their website and are currently, as of posting, not listing any Lexia systems for sale in their shop - but I have been advised that they are still in the process of listing products, so may take a while for them to show. If you are interested, just contact them as they are continuing to supply these.

Easydiags

The Diagbox software specifically designed for the newer Citroen / Peugeot vehicles (approx. 2008 on, but varies), also contains the older Lexia (for Citroen) and Peugeot Planet 2000 (for Peugeot) software for vehicles approx. 2007 and older (but will depend on exact vehicle and year). Diagbox will launch the most appropriate software for the vehicle model and year. The software is normally supplied with the hardware scanner, along with the cables required including the USB cable to connect your Laptop / PC. The Diagbox software available to us mere mortals (i.e. outside the dealership / subscribing garages) is not officially supported and has been modified to allow it to work with the cloned Actia Hardware Scanners, and as such can be very twitchy to install. There's a lot of info on the main Merged Diagbox Threads about this. Although there are many combinations of hardware and software that it will work with, there are many that it won't, so if you stick to a 32 bit Windows 7 Laptop you should be fine if thinking of taking the plunge.

[Hell Razor5543]

I have an Easy Diagnostics Lexia (about 4 years old now), running on a Toshiba Netbook NB250 with 2GB RAM, running Wondows 7 Starter (32bit).

[wurlycorner]

I bought mine on ebay from autodiagnosticsuk995

It's running on a Panasonic ToughbookCF-18 (also bought from ebay as a refurbished model - which was actually entirely mint, as new and cost me peanuts!) using XP Pro Sp2.

Installing the software and getting it running a ball ache - it takes AGES (literally, you should allocate about a day to it and that's assuming it all works first time) because you start from a very old version and then have to keep loading updates.
Mine took me something like ten attempts (from scratch each time) before it finally got to the end of the updates.
I contacted the seller for advice and they were very helpful - one of the reasons I chose them was because although they cost more than other sellers, they were recommended on here as being very helpful with advice/support - and so it transpired

[Hell Razor5543]

I would agree that Easy Diagnostics understand what aftercare means.

[Lenny]

I bought mine from Ebay to save a few bob.
With hindsight I would've paid the extra and bought from Easy Diagnostics.