Robinair is partnering with the Mobile Air Conditioning Society (MACS) Worldwide to provide a free Section 609 test prep webinar for training and certification for up to 125 technicians on Wednesday, May 23 8 at 2 p.m. EDT.
I had to double-check my math, but surprisingly it was almost two decades ago (1999) that the first workgroups and industry forums convened to discuss better ways to express and exchange automotive product information. No one could have known at the time how the scope of the initiative would grow to include packaging and logistics data, standardized brand identif
I started out my diagnosis on a 2003 Ford Escape with an automatic 3.0 VIN 1 24 Valve V-6 with the customer interview to gather the information and the complaint — with just shy of 200K on the odometer, the MIL light is on. Then I gather some codes and data, come up with a plan, repair and verify. Little did I know my plans were about to be derailed!
It isn’t hard to get involved. Start by finding the school in your area. But my challenge to you is to make a commitment to your business, your customers and your industry.
Governmental and private-sector educators are expanding the amount of available industry EV training to meet the demand for knowledgeable parts and repair personnel.
What do you do when there is no As Built data published for the vehicle? Jaime Lazarus leads you through this reprogramming nightmare and shares his successful conclusion.
Today in the shop is a 2005 F-550, with 77,000 miles on the odometer. The truck has a six-speed manual transmission with a four-wheel drive powertrain. The complaint on this vehicle is a no start. The owner states it started running rough and lost power.
Performing a VE calculation on a boosted engine is not much different that doing so on other engines. A known good 2012 Mini Cooper S with a 1.6 liter turbocharged engine will be used to illustrate the technique.
One recent (and also our first “cold”) morning, my wife headed off to work as she normally does but on the way there, experienced a severe “shudder” when she came to a full stop in her 2014 Scion tC.
You need layers of security to catch a variety of cyberattacks. What are your layers and how many are there? If you do not have a layered system, you are vulnerable to a cyberattack.
There is one investment that many distributors and retailers in the aftermarket are making today. There is an industry standard for the inquiry and order of drop ship and special order products. It’s called Internet Parts Ordering or IPO.
Obtaining a federal stamp of approval for your company’s apprenticeship program is en route to becoming less of a top-down bureaucratic ordeal under an executive order issued last year by President Donald Trump.
