Tech Tip: Consider Your Customer Base When Purchasing an Alignment Lift
If you do wheel alignment work, you need an alignment lift for raising vehicles off the ground. A lift is essential because you have to get under the vehicle to inspect the steering and suspension before you check the alignment. You can’t align worn parts, so it’s important to always make sure the tie rod ends, ball joints, springs, bushings, struts and related components are all in good condition before you make any corrections ….
Alignment Lifts: Consider Your Customer Base When Purchasing an Alignment Lift
If you do wheel alignment work, you need an alignment lift for raising vehicles off the ground. A lift is essential because you have to get under the vehicle to inspect the steering and suspension before you check the alignment. You can’t align worn parts, so it’s important to always make sure the tie rod
Point of View: A Time to Give
One of our sister publications, Tomorrow’s Technician, sponsors a “School of the Year” program every year with the kind assistance of Chicago Pneumatic. We ask our readers to tell us why they should be called the “School of the Year” and Chicago Pneumatic awards thousands of dollars in prizes to three runners-up and one grand-prize
Management: As Fuel Prices Rise, Educating Consumers about Nitrogen more Important
Holding the promise of longer tire life and improved fuel economy, this should be a great time for nitrogen inflation – and for tire dealers offering such services. But nitrogen inflation has been taking a few hits from the likes of Consumer Reports and other media, questioning the performance/cost value vs. regular air. While they don’t dispute the science behind nitrogen inflation, or the potential for fuel savings, they do ….
Ingersoll Rand Offers a Perfect Blend of Power and Size
Available this summer, Ingersoll Rand will offer the 2115TiMAX – a new tool that is a re-engineered model of the pneumatic 3/8" 2115Ti Titanium Impactool. The new seven-vane motor and improved airflow delivers more than 300 ft.-lbs. of torque for best-in-class "power-to-weight" and "power-to-size." Meanwhile, the new professional ….
ISN Partners with Rich Evans of Huntington Beach Bodyworks
ISN announces that they have formed a partnership with Rich Evans of Huntington Beach Bodyworks in Long Beach. CA. Rich is a custom builder, designer and painter. Rich and his company create custom and one of a kind works of automotive art ….
News Update: ALLDATA Celebrates 70,000 Customers
Customer-Centric Focus Heightens Success ALLDATA held a media day event at its headquarters in Elk Grove, CA, on Apr. 3, to celebrate its latest accomplishment — 70,000 customers — and to spotlight how ALLDATA is helping automotive service professionals boost their business success. ALLDATA President Jeff Lagges and other company executives discussed how ALLDATA is
Ingersoll Rand’s 2135TiMAX Impact Wrench Features Maximum Power, Control and Reliability
Ingersoll Rand, a global leader in automotive tools and equipment, has released the 2135TiMAX, an innovative successor to the industry-standard pneumatic 1/2" 2135Ti Titanium Impactool. First released in 2003, the original 2135Ti quickly became the impact wrench of choice for automotive service technicians. The new 2135TiMAX features maximum power, control and reliability.
Climate Equipment: Hey, It’s Cold in Here!
Wherever two or more shall gather… Somebody is bound to be too hot or too cold! It seems to be a fact of life, people can never agree about the temperature inside. This one says it’s too hot, while that one says it’s too cold. One thing we can all agree on is that we
Tech Tip: Ready-to-Install Struts Save Time and Increase Profits
It should come as no shock that preassembled, ready-to-install struts have been a huge hit lately. The pros like them because they are much easier, faster and more profitable to install than ordinary struts. They don’t need a spring compressor to disassemble and reassemble the strut and they can get the customer back on the road much faster because of the time saved by not replacing the entire strut assembly.