Directions: Keeping Appearances
How your employees look – whether they please or deceive – usually carries a message I recently visited a local repair shop and watched a scruffy-bearded, pony-tailed tech in dirty, baggy clothes exit the shop and jump in his vehicle and take off for his lunch break. When the shop owner caught me staring at
Delphi Launches Three New Technologies to Help Land Rover Achieve the Highest Standards of Handling and Comfort
Three new technologies from Delphi Corp. are helping the new Range Rover Sport achieve levels of dynamic performance and comfort that are widely regarded as setting new standards for a high-performance SUV.
Tech Tip: Bosch Offers Service Tips to Improve Vehicle Performance
It’s obvious that certain vehicles consume more gasoline than others, but keeping the vehicle in top tune and cultivating smart driving habits can help get maximum gas mileage from almost any vehicle – highly important today with soaring fuel prices. And if a vehicle is running sluggishly, idling rough and delivering poor gas mileage, chances are a tune-up will improve the situation.
Rancho RS9000X Shock Absorbers Make Movie Debut in Walt Disney’s ‘Herbie: Fully Loaded’
Yes, those are Rancho shock absorbers – 16 of them, in fact – mounted beneath the sinister monster truck that eventually succumbs to the trickery of a legendary 1963 Volkswagen Beetle in Walt Disney Studios’ new feature film, "Herbie: Fully Loaded." The film is a remake of the popular 1968 original, "The Love Bug."
Tire Speed Ratings
The Alphabet Soup Debate
Built-In Brains: Engine Analyzers Combine the Capabilities of Many Diagnostic Tools into One
When most people think of an engine analyzer, they think of a big box console with automated test capabilities that can detect a wide variety of faults. There are still some machines like these today, but many of the features of a traditional engine analyzer are now available in top-of-the-line scan tools. An engine analyzer
Technician Health and Safety: The Most Important Tool You’ll Ever Own
The life of an automobile technician is filled with many short- and long-term health hazards. The health offenses that I can recall throughout my career include: cuts to the hands, arms and face; burns on my hands and arms; flying debris in my eye; squirting fluid in my eye; breathing car-generated dust; breathing excess car
Editor’s Notebook: Energize Your Businessby by Innovating…
Yet Remaining Steadfast in Your Mission
The Origins to a Breakdown
It’s interesting to see the look on a technician’s face as a vehicle gets towed into a shop on the back of a truck. That’s the opening scene for a no-start problem. You can usually tell when a technician thinks it’s good, and you can definitely tell when he thinks it’s bad. Not many techs
Shops that Evolve are Shops that Succeed
There’s plenty to be said about not being complacent. After all, complacency breeds mediocrity. And in today’s competitive service environment, where the name of the game is standing out amidst your competition – being at the forefront in your line of work will bring increased visibility and more customers to your shop. In striving for