I am in Australia and have a 2010 Mitsubishi Triton or L200 as it is known in many other markets. These vehicles are a bit tricky as I found out the hard way. They have legacy Mitsubishi system parts of code still being used as well as the OBD 2 setup for more modern vehicles. Originally Mitsubishi actually supplied a device called a MUT to their dealers and not too many got into the wild. This kept these vehicles pretty much captive to the dealers for quite a few functions. When OBD 2 came along Mitsubishi embedded some of these functions in the OBD 2 in the manufacturers private number areas so even if you get a code, you cannot read it with many OBD2 scanners.

The Chinese came up with copies but they are problematic and can cause issues with the vehicles as they essentially open the system completely and an owner can easily overwrite or otherwise stuff things up. I spent a lot of time looking for a scanner that would read these areas and action recalibrations where required. I settled on an X Tool model D8S with topography which I find more intuitive to deal with as it allows an old dummy like me to more easily visualise the cars electrical systems and to focus more easily on the problems. after much correspondence and many assurances that the D8S would do everything. It duly arrived. It was able to read all; the functions and in many cases, it could make things work such as the Injector small quantity learning to name one. I would also say that the topography feature interfaces really well with the OEM manual as it also deals with the vehicles systems in a similar way so I can look at the problem and the manual and it makes things clearer on where to focus.

However, there was an issue with the steering recalibration and nothing I could do would make it work and get rid of that light. Hmm. The dealer told me just bring it in and A$250 later it will not have that light. Not for me. I looked everywhere for a second hand MUT reader as I have got an OEM workshop manual (all 5000 pages of it) with about 2000 pages devoted to wonderful explanations of how the MUT works. Hmm. I continued and eventually found a company in China called Vident. If I did not know better, I would suspect that they have cracked the MUT and created a small specialised scanner specifically for the Mitsubishi and also Nissan vehicles which have these mixed legacy systems. It is a small unit called the iAuto 705 NISSSAN&MIT System Scan Tool and not much more than the Dealer wanted to fix one issue.

Ok so I had to have it and it arrived. Very little in the way of instructions and not much help from the manufacturer. Ok so I went ahead. It is like a really basic scanner and quite intuitive. It promptly pulled up the steering recalibration code and asked if I wanted to do a recalibration? Yes please, and 30 seconds later everything was resolved. I also looked around in the menu for other "private" Mitsubishi codes and they seem to be there.

This quirk seems to be present in 2004 to 2015 vehicles from these manufacturers as long as they vehicles design was done prior to about 2014. Later vehicles seem not to have these issues. I know you do not see many of these vehicles in Europe but there are huge numbers of them in Russia and I thought you may have some subscribers there who would benefit from this information.