Hyundai Tech Tip: Diagnosing Unstable Idle Conditions
Some Hyundai vehicles with 2.4L or 3.5L engines may experience an intermittent unstable idle condition. Follow this simple procedure to diagnose an intermittently sticking closed EGR solenoid valve.
Rotary Offers Tips for Selecting the Right Lifts
A vehicle lift is the centerpiece of most service and repair bays. There is a general perception that all lifts are pretty much the same, differentiated only by price. This can be a dangerous mindset.
Trico’s Wiper Products Application Guide Now Available
Trico Products announces the availability of its 2006 automotive wiper products application guide (T-4601). The 264-page catalog features comprehensive, easy-to-use product information for all Trico automotive products, including wiper blades, refills, arms, washer pumps and hoses.
Viewpoint: Empathy and Old Ladies
In 1994, I was working at major chain repair/tire shop in Birmingham MI, as a service writer. I had not been there too long and was just learning the ropes. The shop was located in an affluent suburb of Detroit. The customers were a mixture of old money, new money and retiree money from folks
RTI Provides TPMS OE Phase-in Schedule
The necessity for nitrogen tire filling capability will increase drastically over the next several months. All passenger vehicles will be required to have on-board TPMS (Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems) by 2008.
Rotary Lift Allows Technicians to Service More Vehicles
A new option from Rotary Lift makes it possible for technicians to efficiently service a wider range of vehicles on a single SmartLift inground lift. SmartLift is now available with three-stage arms.
Mitch’s World: Getting Started …
Mitch Schneider, a nationally recognized automotive service professional, author and lecturer, has joined Babcox Publications as a senior contributing editor. He will have a regular column on Autocarepro:news. This is his first column and we look forward to many more to come.
Canadian Manufacturer Impresses U.S. Distributor, Classic Industries, with New Product for 1994-96 Impala
Speed Tech Performance (STP), manufacturers of aftermarket products for the 1967-’69 Camaro, 1970-’81 second generation Camaro, 1968-’74 Nova, 1964-’72 A Body and the 1994-’96 B Body Impala SS, announces that one of its products, their Tubular Control Arms, will be featured in the Classic Industries Impala/Full-Size Chevrolet catalog due out in August 2006.
Mitch’S World: Getting Started…Who I Am and What I Hope to Accomplish Here
A friend once told me that the hardest part of getting started was…getting started. He was convinced it had something to do with the Laws of Physics or the Inertia of Rest or something like that. I’m not a physicist, but I am a student of human nature and, as far as I’m concerned, that
Mitch’s World: Getting Started
A friend once told me that the hardest part of getting started was, well, getting started. He was convinced it had something to do with the Laws of Physics or the Inertia of Rest or something like that. I’m not a physicist, but I am a student of human nature and, as far as I’m