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The Complete Brake Job

Success Lies in the Details

April 5, 2021

Mike Mavrigian

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Brake system service is perhaps the most crucial aspect of vehicle service. If the engine won’t start, the customer is stranded. If the engine or transmission causes a surge or poor acceleration, the customer is annoyed. But if the vehicle won’t stop, that’s a big problem.

Diagnosing Faults in High Speed Communications

Taking a Methodical Approach With the Controller Area Network

April 5, 2021

Jeff Taylor

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Many technicians start to feel uncomfortable about a diagnostic situation if the scanner only shows U-codes, but if the scanner powers up but will not communicate, that uncomfortable feeling intensifies.

Servicing Today’s A/C Systems

Changes Come in Details of Modern Vehicles

April 5, 2021

Edwin Hazzard

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During the past three or four decades, the basic theory of the automotive air conditioning system hasn’t changed a whole lot. What has changed is everything else that’s part of a vehicle’s air conditioning system.

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