Technology briefs provide an insight onto new techniques and the advancement in the tools available to test the technology currently employed by the automotive industry.
Although the initials EOBD are well known by now, the reason for its introduction and why the diagnostic socket is called J1962 may well not fully understood; two documents are provided to describe the reasons and historical development of this fundamental change in automotive technology: EOBD - A brief history and EOBD - A detailed history.
Ultrasound diagnostics is the up and coming diagnostics aid as the sound waves emitted by automotive systems can tell us a lot about the integrity of the systems themselves. Use of tools, likeOmitec's OmiSonic, provide an essential addition to the diagnostician's toolbox.
CAN bus technology, in a greater or lesser degree, is now commonplace in most vehicles and vehicle technicians need to understand what it is and how it works in order to include or exclude it from the diagnostic procedure.
It is estimated that the majority of the owners of scantools, like Omitec's OmiScan, only use 25% of the scantool's facilities, ignoring the importance of 'Live Data' and the 'Actuator' control resident in these tools.
Coming soon will be an explanation of Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) and the testing of these systems using such tools as Omitec's OmiTire.
