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 [...]
Complex or simple diagnostics
Reading the press it would be easy to believe that buying a lower tech reset type tool could be seen to be a foolish thing to do. What needs to be done it to keep sight of what you are really trying to do, particularly if you only intend to use the equipment for service [...]
Testing Times – Lambda & O2 Testing
Lambda & O2 Testing — Simple is the easy way to get it right! (Don’t try to make things more complicated than they are). Remember: The O2 sensor is a sensor, what it does is report only. It measures the Oxygen left after combustion in the emissions, it then reports back (to the ECU) its [...]
R1234yf — The next generation of Air Conditioning
DIRECTIVE 2006140/EC states: “With effect from 1 January 2011 Member States shall no longer grant EC type-approval or national type-approval for a type of vehicle fitted with an air conditioning system designed to contain fluorinated greenhouse gases with a global warming potential higher than 150.” This means that new vehicles, which require type approval will [...]
