Success at Mechanex

We had a busy couple of days at the Mechanex Motor Trade show in Harrogate this week. It was good to see so many people turn up and find out about the latest products to hit the automotive industry.

Our stand at Mechanex

Huge thanks to our friends at LUK / FAG who were demonstrating our new GEN2 VAG Bearing tool (08125500) – This was a popular one with the crowds as the guys at LUK did around 30 demos of this tool in one day!

There were a couple of tools in particular that many visitors to our stand were talking about and these were the Universal Press & Pull Sleeve Set (08780000) and the recently launched TPMS Tool (30661000). It was great to see so many requests for workouts too – our Sales reps are going to be kept busy over the coming weeks visiting these people and promoting some of our latest products.

We were also thrilled at the request from a couple of fellow exhibitors who asked if they could borrow some of our products to display and help raise the image of their stands during the show…….. It’s good to know that the SP name is appreciated by many within the industry!

Thanks to all those people who came to see us on the stand and provided us with some valuable feedback that we can use for future product development. Hope to see you again at one of our future shows!

Competition News!

 

Thanks to all those that entered our competition to win a GearWrench® 12 Piece Combination Ratcheting Wrench Set. We received lots of entries and are pleased to announce that the winner is………………..Mike Smith of RMS Car Repairs in Calshot. RMS Car Repairs are a long established, independent garage, whose services include car repairs, MOT’s, engine diagnostics and car servicing. Well Done Mike – We hope the wrench set comes in handy!

RMS Car Repairs

Tel: 02380 891046

The M9R Engine Conquered! by Professor Rob

Stuck Injector

This week I visited a large Vauxhall dealer in Bolton that had a Vivaro van – as I found it, with one injector not just stuck but broken off as well. Double trouble! A vain attempt to remove this had been made by the guys at the garage using the OEM tool used by Vauxhall, Nissan & Renault but this injector was not budging!

18580000 - Tool in place

So I was set the challenge of pulling the injector out of the engine and with this particular Vauxhall having a joint engine fitted, also common in Renault and Nissan vehicles and renowned in the motor trade as the worst engine to remove injectors from – It is the fabled ‘M9R’ motor! 

Injector successfully removed

People in the know normally allow half a day or more to pull one injector, so you can imagine how impressed the staff were when I managed to pull this tricky injector out……..along with another 4 injectors that were stuck in various Vauxhall M9R engines in little over half a day! Reeesult!

It has to be said that the garage had serious doubts we could provide a tool (18580000 - CLICK HERE to see video) that would actually assist in this tricky problem, yet alone work on this type of engine - but ours did. I have to add that our vibro-impact air hammer tool (90206000) also assisted in this operation and the combination of tools used really did the business!  

Voila!

Mission: Accomplished!

"Shut that door!" – Another top tip from Professor Rob

Shut That Door!

Vehicle diagnostic checking – always remember to shut the doors first or else there is a real chance your diagnostic tester won’t communicate with the car you are connected to.

Many vehicles (particularly Germanic ones) will restrict high level ECU access with the doors open or if the interior lights are on. Basic entry level EOBD readers pick codes from around the ECU core data..…but to go right into an ECU at a higher level using OEM type communication protocols – then many ECU’s only exchange data with the doors shut & interior lights off – so always remember to Shut That Door!

Conveyor Engineering – Delivering in style…...

Conveyor Engineering – a local family run business based in Wolverhampton, manufacture one of our best selling lines and talk about delivering these to us in style! Father and son team Graham & Stuart Goodall each own a Holden Ute Maloo – imported from Australia, each has a 5.7 litre V8 engine (the same engine as a Corvette!) and boasts an impressive 340bhp. Environmentally friendly, the Holden’s LPG Dual Fuel system allows the Ute to automatically switch between petrol and LPG making it a cleaner, greener and cheaper alternative!

Conveyor Engineering UK Ltd – Providing general precision machining and fabrications
Tel: 01902 871254
Website: www.conveyorengineering.co.uk

Latest generation of vehicle EOBD flight recorders to help find faults that never seem to show up in workshops…

Blubox

The past generations of vehicle flight recorders have always promised a lot but then failed to deliver – with most having limited communication, poor data recording and next to nothing in the way of diagnostic capabilities – all in all they just frustrated us! However don’t be disheartened because at last there is a recorder that delivers. The new ‘Blubox’ from Sykes-Pickavant offers full CAN compliance, multiplexing and selectable parameter recording allowing for weeks of data recording capability, making it an item that can be put into a car and left until a fault or faults appear.

 

When the little marvel spots a trouble code (not just P codes, but also B, C & U codes too!), it records it, beeps loudly and flashes its LED to alert the driver to bring it back to your workshop. In the past, older types were limited in the information they held – but Blubox is able to replay whole journeys back in real-time showing what was being sent to the ECU at the time a fault occurred and this combined with its diagnostic capability, database and free (yes free!) updates makes it the bee’s knees! So if you own a PC and are looking for a decent code reader - at £149.50, Blubox could be the ideal solution for you.   

New Summer Promotional Brochure - Available Now

We have now launched our latest Special Offers and New Products promotional brochure that runs from May until August 2011. The latest promo includes a mixture of products covering areas such as Suspension, Injection, Braking and Diagnostics and new tools like the Hydraulic Injector Puller System and Concentric Speedy Steering Rack Wrench are already proving to be a hit.

 

Be one of the first to see the brand new Tyre Pressure Monitoring-Sensor (TPMS) all makes service tool.  Its features include sensor checking, activation and replacement – all in one tool!

  

To request  a copy of the latest Summer promo, call Customer Services on 01543 679900 or CLICK HERE to view a copy.