Dash Cash: Resetting Emission Reminder Lights
This situation can be a headache or an opportunity for some extra dash cash, depending on how you handle it.
Carside Manner
It’s always a treat to walk into one of these shops during the day, and watch a real professional at work behind the front desk.
Audi Automatic Transmission Overhaul
Fully automatic three-speed units consisting of a three-element torque converter and a compound planetary gear set. Three multiple disc clutches, a one-way roller clutch, and one friction band control the gear set’s operation.
Carside Manner
Hoping that some of you can convince the owners of these vehicles to stop their horrid treatment of our four-wheeled friends.
Toyota Twin-Cam Valve Adjustment
The way they figured it, selecting the right adjustment shim involved about three parts luck and one part skill.
Top Ten Resistor records – Changes By The Engineers
If you’ve been troubleshooting electrical problems on a hit-and-miss basis, the law of averages is not on your side.
Creating An In-House Parts Department
Parts are an integral part of your business. In fact, very little of your service business is done without them.
BMW Cylinder Head Gasket R&R
An oil leak at the cylinder head gasket in the area between the number 3 and number 4 cylinders on the exhaust manifold side of the head.
Windshield Repair Kits
Like a taillight lens repair, windshield repair can be one of those services that makes everyone involved richer and happier.
Oil Analysis Tests
Oil analysis are a convenient way to extend equipment maintenance intervals, while keeping an eye on internal engine wear.
Mazda Timing Belt Replacement
Not all FE engines use the same timing belt. Prodcution changes and some dealer modifications can make ordering a new belt tricky business.
Let Us Spray: K-Jetronic Injector Testing and Hose Repair
We’d like to look at some commonly overlooked, and fairly simple procedures for testing K-Jetronic fuel injectors and fuel delivery lines.
Carside Manner
This month we’d like to list some of the benefits to both customer and shop owner from a regular maintenance program.
Air Sweeteners
After at least fifteen years of widespread use, catalytic converters have reached the point where they are often taken for granted.
Hot Fudge Hyundai: Excel Maintenance
We’ll familiarize you with the Hyundai Excel’s mechanical layout and give an overview of some of the more common maintenance services that you might be performing on these cars.
Good Guy / Bad Guy: How customers picture you
How do your customers picture you? Do they see you as a competent, caring professional? Or do they have a less pleasant picture of you and your business?
Electrical Service
There are plenty of things that can stand in the way of a good electrical connection, but one of the surest ways to mess things up is to add a little corrosion.
Carside Manner
Being a World Class Technician has never been a guarantee of business success, and he knew that from the start.
Alignment Puzzles
Since no two cars, like no two puzzle pieces, will be exactly the same, it takes a keen eye and attention to detail to complete each alignment picture.
Carburetor Clinic: Keihin Three-Barrel Revisited
Follow up with a return visit to the Keihin 3-barrel carburetor that feeds the CVCC system. We found that there was a lot to know about the Keihin in addition to CVCC components.
Star Service News Bulletin No.32 – Summer 1989
Star Service News Bulletin No.32