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Continental Adds Wheel Speed Sensors to ATE Brake Products

Continental Commercial Vehicles & Aftermarket has added wheel speed sensors to its line of ATE brake products.

Charging and Starting: Diagnostics Evolve with System Complexity

When you talk about diagnostics in the automotive industry, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a computer problem like an engine system, anti-lock brake system or maybe even a body control issue.

Dart Reflash

A “small number” of owners of 2013 Dodge Dart vehicles may experience a MIL on. The technician may find DTC P2251 (O2 sensor 1/1 negative current control circuit open).

SMP Adds Parts to BWD Sensor and Switch Lines

Standard Motor Products Inc. (SMP) has added 109 part numbers to its BWD engine management line. The release spans 24 product categories and expands coverage through the 2017 model year with more than 57 million VIO.

Touchy Honda

This bulletin applies to all 2000 and later Honda models equipped with SRS (an example is the 2011 Civic Hybrid). The OPDS (Occupant Position Detection System) sensors in the front passenger seat-back pad are very sensitive and can set SRS DTC 15-3 (faulty OPDS sensor) or 86-11 (faulty OPDS seat-back sensor) if they are exposed to even small amounts of electronic interference.

SMP Releases 242 New BWD Automotive Parts

Standard Motor Products Inc. (SMP) has added 242 new part numbers to its BWD engine management line. The release spans 51 product categories and expands coverage through the 2016 model year with more than 123 million additional vehicles in operation (VIO).

Switches and Sensors Are Part of SMP's Latest Release

Standard Motor Products Inc. (SMP) has added 239 part numbers to its Standard and Intermotor lines. The release spans 38 product categories and expands coverage through the 2016 model year with more than 152 million additional VIO.

Continental Releases VDO Blind Spot Detection Sensor

Continental Commercial Vehicles & Aftermarket has a new VDO blind spot detection sensor as a direct OE replacement for blind spot zone collision warning systems on 2011-2015 Lexus and Toyota models.

Another Focus glitch

Some 2012-2014 Ford Focus vehicles equipped with reverse park aid sensors and built on or before 8-16-2013 may exhibit the IPC message center display indicating Rear Park Aid On/Off while driving forward after shifting from reverse.

Advanced O2 sensor diagnostics: Tracing sensor wiring and checking for ‘lazy’ sensors

Over the years we covered a lot of the basics concerning oxygen and air-fuel sensor diagnostics. This includes their basic operation, the differences between oxygen and air-fuel sensors, air-fuel ratio sensor voltage specifications, the differences between zirconium and titanium dioxide oxygen sensors, and using emissions analyzers to verify Lambda.

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