Robinair Introduces New Air Conditioning Recovery Machine with Full-Color Graphic Display
The machine recovers, recycles, evacuates and recharges R-134A mobile A/C systems, covering most of today’s passenger vehicles.
General’s New PalmScope Is Full-Featured Video Inspection System
Has numerous vehicle maintenance applications; fits in pocket or clips to belt; specs rival far more expensive units.
Four Seasons Honored With Most Innovative New Product Award At MACS Show
Four Seasons was recently honored with the “Most Innovative New Product” award for its Deslugger compressor clutch timer during the 2014 Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS) Worldwide Training Event and Trade Show, held in New Orleans, La.
Tech Tip: Honda Suffers From Hard Start/Long Crank Time
If a an owner of a 2003-’04 Honda Accord complains their vehicle is experiencing excessive cranking or hard starting, there are two possible causes – contamination in the fuel pressure regulator or exhaust gas backflow into the intake manifold at engine shutdown.
Mechatronics Engineering Launches New Wheel Balancing Line in North America
Mechatronics Engineering has announced the official North American launch of its exclusive new and patented advanced balancing technology called SPBU, which stands for “self-propelled balancing unit.”
Tech Update: HVAC Diagnostics
Leave it to the OEMs to take a simple system like heating and air conditioning and turn it into an electronic jumble of wiring, sensors and computer components.
The National Pronto Association Selects DENSO to be among its ‘Supplier of the Year’ Recipients
The National Pronto Association awarded DENSO Sales California (DSCA) the 2010 Original Equipment (OE) Supplier of the Year award. The award was presented during Pronto’s fall membership meeting on September 15, 2010 in Indianapolis, IN. Pronto has awarded DENSO the OE Supplier of the Year Award in 2006, 2008 and 2009.
Tech Feature: Clearing the Air on CAFs
Are you inspecting the cabin air filter on your customers’ vehicles? If not, you should be. It’s a health benefit for your customers, as well as their vehicle.
Directions: The Impact of HF0-1234yf on Service Shops
According to the new refrigerant’s developers, there are chemical differences between HFO-1234yf and the current R-134a system. As a shop owner, you’ll need to learn the Safety, Equipment and Charging Issues surrounding this new refrigerant.
Tech Feature: New Refrigerant Change May Not Be a ‘SNAP’
The introduction of HFO-1234yf in vehicle A/C systems in the U.S. could be a few years away. However, it is plausible that some (dealership technicians and collision repairers) may see HFO-1234yf systems by late 2011 and early 2012, as European models begin the R-134a phase-out and make their way across the pond. (R-134a is to be completely phased out of new European systems by 2017.)