If you missed last month’s article on Bosch’s CIS-E basic systems checks, you may have a hard time following along.

Independent automotive repair shops have traditionally shunned marketing.

Marketing. The dreaded M word. For most of my career, I cringed when I heard that word.

Simple troubleshooting for such things as a no-start or poor performance problems requires an understanding of how the particular system operates, and how to diagnose it.

Do you remember when a simple DC-powered test light was your best electrical diagnostic friend? Do you remember casually probing it here and there, to quickly determine whether a circuit was live or not?

When you’re through reading each “Waveform Of The Month” installment, you’ll know more about the waveform that it knows about itself.

Emission inspection programs have been springing up all around the country, and emission repairs have become an integral part of our industry as a result.