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TPMS Quick Tip: Managing Mercedes-Benz Inflation Assumptions

With almost all M-B vehicles, use an auto relearn procedure that is activated by menus in the instrument cluster.

PC Reflashing and Reprogramming: A Learning Process

When you start purchasing the tools and subscriptions that you need, you will you realize what you are up against.

Key Diagnostics and Programming

With remote fobs and proximity keys on more vehicles, diagnosing and servicing them is becoming an essential skill.

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A Diagnostic Time Machine

Increase your efficiency with simplified initial core diagnostics.

Video: Diagnosing Codes on HD Vehicles

Down time for heavy-duty vehicles can cost thousands of dollars – which is why technicians need the right heavy-duty solution to help them navigate through complex coverage and various systems.

Video: Where There’s Smoke…

Smoke machines have improved over the years and with those improvements come multiple ways technicians can use them to diagnose vehicle issues.

Video: Direct Fuel Injection – It’s Not a Mystery!

Find out what to look out for before you replace a fuel pump. This video is sponsored by Bosch Automotive Service Solutions.

Servicing GM Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

If the deflation is rapid, it will give an immediate warning by flashing the warning light.

Video: Why Does Toe Matter More than Ever?

No more “set the toe and let it go.” Learn to read toe angles, correct thrust angle and make adjustments.

TPMS Quick Tip: TPMS Education

What the customer does not know can hurt your shop.

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TPMS Quick Tip: TPMS Curveballs

You may think you know the cause of a TPMS problem, until one car defies it.

Fuel Pump Codes and Control: Keeping Pressure In The Zone

The first electric fuel pump circuits were very simple. The pump circuit usually involved a relay and fuse.