Our new premises opened in December, and are now fully up and running to provide a top class location for our training courses. This week is the Detroit Motor Show, and it seems clear from the vehicles on show that many major car manufacturers are releasing Hybrid vehicles in the next year or two: Ford, [...]
New Training Centre Now Open
ICT Workshop Solutions Ltd, one of the most well regarded training providers for Diagnostics in the aftermarket vehicle industry, have announced the opening of their new training centre. Miles Roberts, Training Manager of ICT Workshop Solutions said “the opening of a dedicated training facility is the result of growing demand for our learning products. There [...]
Air Conditioning packages to suit ALL budgets
Some suppliers will happily sell you equipment without actually letting you know that you need more than just the machine. With Air Conditioning Servicing, it often comes as an unwelcome surprise to garages when they find that having spent thousands of pounds on a new servicing machine, there are still other hidden extras which they [...]
Steer straight to the point!
Aligning 4 wheels can be straightforward Professionally printed report in Less Than 5 Minutes, with minimal set up Repeatable results every time, ensuring customer satisfaction. All required angles checked and displayed with just one setup How to adjust – help-screens, with full colour vehicle graphical displays Fully updateable, both manually or with periodic update Far [...]
The Advent of Standardised Parts
For some considerable time now the motor industry has been looking to standardise parts and components on cars. Let’s face it they all have an Injector, EGR Valve, Idle Speed Control etc etc. For a long time now Parts manufacturers have been monitoring component performance and specification within EOBD on all cars, in many cases [...]
Wheel Alignment – Part 2
What angles – and why…. When using ‘Wheel alignment’ equipment you are led stage by stage through a process (without dismantling or altering) a short procedure where you do measure the angles below:Toe-in & Toe-out Generally the most understood of all the wheel alignment terms. When measuring toe we are looking at how parallel the [...]
Do You Avoid Hybrid-Electric Vehicles?
Many mechanics are wary of working on hybrid vehicles, due to the perceived problems that they might encounter with something which would normally be easy, such as a standard oil and filter service. There is a fear of the unknown, and with the potential for damaging the customer’s car unwittingly, or electrocuting the technician, many [...]
Refrigerant identification – why do we need to bother?
All motor vehicles since 1995 have been designed to use R134a as the refrigerant in their Air Conditioning systems. So you would think that the argument for buying a refrigerant identifier to check if it really is R134a would have died by now. After all, it’s easy enough to look at the ports on the [...]
Wheel Alignment
Where does the money go……? It is often remarked by garages that wheel alignment equipment is expensive, or else garage owners will say people will not pay for wheel alignment checking on their cars (or vans). They then convince themselves that buying mechanical gauges such as Dunlop gauges will provide all the answers they need. [...]
OmiCheck Service
The OmiCheck Service Tool is a must for any garage carrying out servicing activities that now require diagnostic communication. It is also ideal as an entry level tool or as an addition to your existing diagnostic kit. Fully upgradable to OmiCheck Professional and never switches off! Applications include: ABS – Reads and clear ABS faults [...]
