He ignored it. Page three showed how to connect to OBD-I ports. Page twelve had a strange calibration ritual involving a 9-volt battery and touching the probe to a chassis ground while humming a middle C.
Back in the garage, he opened the binder. The first page wasn’t a typical safety warning. Instead, in bold red letters: Mac tools et97 user Manual
He’d bought the ET97 at an estate sale last month. The previous owner, a grizzled mechanic named Sal, had scribbled on the box: “Talks to anything with pistons.” But without the user manual, the scanner was just a gray brick with a cryptic port. He ignored it