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It’s happening.

Electronics and systems try to help drivers keep their vehicles in safe operating conditions.

Drivers are finding a way around these systems!

Heard last week about a Cayenne with the TPMS light on. Shop tried to make the TPMS happy by adjusting the pressures and failed.

Customer advises the shop to over inflate the tire pressures in order to satisfy the TPMS MIL and drives away thinking that is okay. 🙁

Nice FAIL people!

On a Ford. Alarm triggered by passenger side front door. Car has been to the dealer twice, they cleared codes but did not fix anything.

I recommended removing the sensor and completing the circuit with a jumper to see if that eliminates the trigger.

That must have been too hard to do. The owner removed the fuse for the horn. That fixed the result of the problem.

Not the problem! Now car is driving around without a horn!

Another nice FAIL!

Shops have seen more incorrect “fixes” like this. Why not post some of them here!

www.AutoDiagCart.com is now beta testing our newest feature.

We are calling it the VDB or Virtual Diagnostic Bay!

Using a remote access utility we are now able to remotely connect, via the Internet to a car in your shop!

With this we can help you with the choice selections on the universal Taiwanese scanner!

This is also a way for us to provide your technicians with the steps needed to connect the OE factory diagnostic software’s.

Pull the car into the VDB.

Connect it to the universal Taiwanese scanner using the connection advice folder that we install on the desktop for easy to understand advice.

Click “connection Advice” for link to pdf

Once connected to the car we can help your technicians do the diagnosis.

Then coding and programming!

This allows us to remotely train your newest technicians and get them up and running as quickly as possible.

Call us today and find out how we can help with today’s latest diagnostic challenges.

Postmaster@AutoDiagCart.com

Paul @ 720-291-7724

Not possible when you are dealing with Mercedes Benz of Albuquerque!

Those turkeys just cost us several hours of trying.

They did not send the “special Mickey Mouse” round temporary key!

Then they required the customer bring the car with the old AAM to the dealer!

Mercedes should ask themselves, “why do we feel it is okay to punish our customer’s?”

When ordering TRP’s, you must get authorization from the car owner!

Copy of license, registration, and authorization from the car owner to act as his representative!

Present this when ordering the TRP!

If the dealer gives you any trouble, give it right back to him and demand the parts be sold!

Finally.

We have been trying to connect to a BMW with the ISIS or ISTA or ISID for quite awhile now.

Many months and hours and dollars have gone by.

We bought a Chinese ICOM for testing, now we understand a little bit better, why you don’t buy those.

It has been since October of 2011 that I paid in full for this.

I also had to buy the Dell e-6420.

The ICOM set never fully worked until this weekend. It would connect and pull a VIN, then drop out of communication.

So, a couple of thousand dollars tied up for almost two years.

I paid for a new connector. What I have is a repaired connector!

I will never get what I paid for.

I had to send it back, they did replace a bad chip and replace the noisy cooling fan.

The ISIS is full of great information and diagnostics!

More values and functions than the DIS.

More information than an Autologic will ever provide.

Repair information in a much more friendly format.

Call and ask us today how we can help your shop get connected today to the server at www.BMWtechinfo.com!

So, don’t buy copied hardware to use with bootleg installs from China.

Buy the Universal scanner from Taiwan. Now allowing full diagnostics and programming!

Clearly the best choice for foreign car diagnostics.

The WHOLE Universal scanner from Taiwan package is less than just the ICOM hardware set from API!

I walked into a long time customer’s shop in Fort Collins yesterday.

He has been talking with Direct Capital.

Direct Capital is the preferred financier for Autologic deals.

Direct Capital has been calling and telling potential customers that he works for Autologic for quite awhile now.

I do not know if the Autologic rep in this area is even aware of this deal!

He is too busy clearing codes with his demo unit for $50 a pop. You should maybe call him.

The deal Direct Capital was presenting was for BMW @ $11,500 and $1,200 a year maintenance after that.

He would only have BMW and Mini.

No workshop advice.

No fault trace.

No wiring diagrams.

No component locators.

Today we are shipping that customer an Universal scanner from Taiwan, a programming power supply and a fully loaded laptop for less than $10,000!

He will have all the brands covered with the fastest most complete hand held tool in the business!

He will have no subscription fee’s due until he decides to renew after his access to updates ends in 2016!

Just call that the Autologic deal Killa!

I have worked for more than 15 years selling/servicing/updating diagnostic systems.

Why is it that people still buy Snap-on scanners?

Think it through with me.

So your product mix is all domestic maybe?

They do well on reading and clearing codes on the big three lines.

Live data is okay, adaptations even.

What happens when you need to replace an engine ECU?

You can’t program or code a new module with it.

What do you use for that?

Ford IDS is around $1200 and the subscription is $599.

Done.

GM MDI is around the same $1200 and the yearly package is $3100.

Done.

Chrysler is the worst with their DRB 1, 2, & 3 but the new WiTech is affordable.

Okay, so it makes no sense for a Domestic shop.

It’s not the Asian tool of choice, it has basic OBDII for Subaru?

No, it is not an Asian tool.

We know it is worst on the European side of things, people say it is pretty good on BMW!

It won’t program a thing!

You can’t even bleed the brakes on a Mini!

No, the only good reason to buy a Snap-on scanner is to get them to come round regular for the payment!

Just got a call from another very satisfied customer.

He bought a system from me back in 2009. Four years, no need to update till now……

He works on just Mercedes, BMW and Porsche.

He called to ask about updating my system.

He said the guys in the shop are all factory BMW and MB so they are familiar with the OE softwares.

He bought an Autologic for MB and BMW about five or six years ago.

That was 20K and 2,3K a year for maintenance. Oh, then they had to update to the newer unit for another 7K!

He said he wishes that he had never bought the Autologic.

They hardly ever pick it up anymore!

All is good. Customers are happy.

We are getting everything done except for this blog and some website improvements we are planning.

We have been very, very busy.

Tech support, vehicle problems, sales meetings, and the never ending research.

Our customers are starting to show a little horsepower in their businesses as well!

We have lots of used equipment that get’s traded in and laptops that we have replaced with newer versions, so call and ask about P & A.

Please call with pricing requests.

We went out and did four demo’s a week ago Wednesday.

One down three quote request’s to go.

Mark,