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Power Options: Restoring a Vehicle to Like-New Performance

Replacing a worn or broken engine on a customer’s vehicle can be a very sensitive subject for many independent shop owners because it’s a time-intensive and possibly high-liability service. After a replacement is done, a shop’s greatest fear is that a minor ticking noise or oil leak may ruin the profitability of the engine replacement.

Affinia Under Vehicle Group Announces New Raybestos Brand Brakes Product Line Up

Affinia Under Vehicle Group recently introduced its new Raybestos brand brake product line up, a consolidated product line that provides customers with increased application coverage, a competitive pricing structure and a simplified selection process for the company’s friction, rotors and hydraulic products.

Selecting the Right Friction Material

How do you select the right brake pad for a vehicle? And, how do you select the right friction line to stock at your shop or have as your first call? These are difficult questions to answer. Every time your shop installs a set of brake pads on a vehicle you are taking a gamble

Twin-Piston Calipers: Are Two Pistons Better than One?

generate more torque. More torque means more stopping power. Also, by using the floating caliper design instead of an opposing piston design, engineers are able to avoid wheel clearance issues and other robust design features of the floating caliper. With a single-piston caliper, the footprint of pad is limited in some ways to the diameter

Mercedes-Benz: Transmission Service and Other Maintenance Essentials

Consistently rated as well engineered and well built, the Mercedes line fills almost every class of vehicle today, from small fuel-efficient people-movers like the Smart Car, to large over-the-road trucks and every niche in between. Our shop performs routine maintenance and more involved repairs on hundreds of Mercedes vehicles every year. Most of the models

Battery Charging: All Charged Up!

A battery charger is something every shop should own, and most do. But battery technology has changed in recent years. Battery chargers that were designed for older conventional lead acid batteries (called “flooded” cell batteries because the cells are filled with liquid electrolyte) may not be the best choice for newer batteries with absorbent glass

Affinia Under Vehicle Group Introduces the Raybestos Brand Brakes 2007 Medium Duty Catalog

Affinia Under Vehicle Group recently announced the distribution and general availability of the first edition 2007 Raybestos brand brakes Medium Duty Catalog. The catalog indexes every medium duty Raybestos brand brake product from 1980 through 2006.

High-Performance Brake Pads

Friction and Fiction “I would like a more aggressive or high-performance brake pad.” If you work at a typical shop you will hear this statement at least once a week. It is a complex request that requires a line of questioning to flush out what the customer wants, needs and expects. “Aggressive”, “high performance” and

Tech Update: A Refresher Course on Complete Brake Service, Brake & Suspension System Service

Whether you’re studying for an upcoming ASE brake certification test, expanding your knowledge or honing your brake repair skills, this course is for you. There are no grades and no pop quizzes or tests. It’s not even a pass-fail course. The only credit you’ll receive will be thanks and appreciation from your customers and employer

Tech Tip: Master Cylinder Inspection

Although the mechanics of modern master cylinders seem deceptively simple, today’s dual-piston or tandem master cylinders still require the utmost in care and attention to maintain safe, reliable operation.