UEi Automotive’s ADL7103 Dual Channel Scope Diagnoses Multitude of Automotive Faults
The ADL7103 can quickly diagnose automotive faults from making voltage checks, reading codes, resetting malfunction indicator lamps to viewing signal waveforms. The ADL7103’s combination of features also includes a ….
Zurich Offers Pointers for Preventing Fires
The headlines read, "Local Business Destroyed by Fire" or "Gasoline Fumes Ignite Three-Alarm Blaze." It is a common occurrence at businesses and homes throughout the country, especially during the winter months. It is important to remember that open containers of gasoline ….
New Grab Handle Kit from MasterCraft Offers Strength and Safety to Jeep JK Passengers
MasterCraft has added a new, robust Grab Handle Kit for the popular Jeep JK platform to its broad line of Jeep accessories. MasterCraft Grab Handles, built to the same exacting engineering and design standards as the company’s race-proven seats, are manufactured from ….
Tech Tip: Are You Unnecessarily Replacing Starters and Alternators?
How many starters and alternators are replaced unnecessarily every year because of misdiagnosis? Nobody knows for sure, but suppliers of both new and remanufactured rotating electrical parts tell us more than half of their warranty returns have "no fault found" when the parts are examined. Many of these returns are from DIYers who lack diagnostic know-how, but some are from professional technicians who apparently lack the ….
Streamlight Super-Tac Delivers Super Bright LED Performance
Streamlight has introduced its brightest LED flashlight ever – the Super-Tac. The new light is a powerful, versatile new tool for professional users, particularly when operating in low-light situations. With the Super-Tac, Streamlight debuts new C4 LED technology that is three time brighter than standard LEDs and delivers up to 135 lumens of intense white light for up to 3.5 hours.
UEi Automotive Introduces the ADL7103 Dual Channel Scope
The ADL7103 can quickly diagnose automotive faults from making voltage checks, reading codes, resetting malfunction indicator lamps to viewing signal waveforms. The ADL7103’s combination of features also includes a library of known good patterns with preset test parameters for common automotive signals. Each test can be fine tuned to view any portion of the signal for further analysis.
Management: 50 Tips to Improve Your Shop in 2008
Andrew Markel, editor of BRAKE & FRONT END magazine, offers 50 pointers that shop managers and technicians can use to improve their service shop in 2008.
The Busted Knuckle Garage Says, ‘Valentines Day is For Guys!’
The Busted Knuckle Garage (TBKG), a brand of Almost There! Inc., a unique gift shop for wrench twisting car guys and bikers, has gift ideas guaranteed to help make your Valentines Day hotter than a redline tachometer.
Viewpoint: 50 Tips to Improve your Shop in 2008
Increase the labor rate. Chances are your customers will not notice. Send fewer cars to the dealership. Buy better uniforms. Secretly shop the competition. Attend more training. Take down all the old, dirty or out-of-date “push/pull” or “we install” stickers off your front door. Use your shop management system more effectively. Explore all menus and
Training Program Updates
State-of-the-art automotive technology doesn’t do anybody much good if technicians can’t get the training they need to fix and maintain today’s systems. Unfortunately, in recent years there has been an industry-wide trend to axe training programs. Parts suppliers are under tremendous price pressure these days, and most are looking for ways to cut costs where