Wednesday 30 August 2017

Airflow sensors

The amount of air entering your engine is a  mesaurable value.
This  undertaken either by a moving vane air sensor or more commonly a MAF or mass airflow unit.
The early MAFs were literally a  heated wire,the amount of air  was detected by the level of current needed to maintain the wires temperature.
All a bit hit and miss and prone to a lot of failures. Todays MAFs use thin film technology giving far quicker responses to changing air flow conditions







Monday 28 August 2017

Graphs and information

Pulling data and information from a car is useless without being able to apply the information







Saturday 26 August 2017

The ECU isnt that smart

Your engines control unit or brain a some cal it isn't really smart.
It simply reacts to inputs and works on the basis they are correct nothing more







Thursday 24 August 2017

Full basic health check

how well is your engine running?
good bad,hard to start either hot or cold.
Starting issues are often the sign of  deeper issues developing,way before your engine  fault light appears.In  fact it may never illuminate and still the car will strand you.



A basic check is via the exhaust using a pulse sensor,and no bonnet lifting even needed 

Wednesday 23 August 2017

Coil on plugs

These are way better than traditional caps and spark plug leads but,the continuous heat soak buried in the engine takes its toll on them.
Cheap ones are the worst culprits,and they can fail without warning
we recommend replacement of them all at 30 000 miles to avoid that


Sunday 20 August 2017

Snap secondary testing

In a steady state engine running condition the ecu assumes full control.
A snap test  allows issues with certain components to reveal them selves.
As a subject its advanced and powerful one we will be entering in much more detail






Sunday 13 August 2017

Thursday 3 August 2017

fuel filters

Fuel filters are a vital part for regular maintenance.
A clogged or partially clogged  wil put a lot of strain on your fuel pimp causing it to fail.
for a few pounds it is false economy not to simply replace it .....dont skimp