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Battery Maintenance: 4 steps on cleaning

Last week, we talked about the importance of keeping your HVAC system clean for the health of your AC compressor. This week, let's take a look at another auto part that is often forgot; the auto battery and it's connections.

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Making sense of your sensors: Exhaust gas temperature sensor

Thanks to ever-stringent emissions legislation, exhaust gas temperature sensors are becoming increasingly popular in modern vehicles. And because they’re a high failure part, they’re becoming an increasingly popular repair too.

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Making sense of your sensors: MAF sensor

Full name Mass Air Flow Sensor, it’s more commonly known as a MAF sensor, air meter or sometimes simply MAF. While it might have many names, it’s responsible for just one, but still very important job: measuring the amount of air entering the engine.

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Making sense of your sensors: ABS sensor

Whilst traditional braking components may not have changed much, the addition of electronic controls has made braking systems much safer and smarter than ever before. Technology such as anti-lock brakes (ABS), electronic stability and brake assist are now common place.

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Making sense of your sensors: MAP sensor

Typically found in fuel injected engines, the manifold absolute pressure (MAP) sensor is one of the sensors an engine control module (ECM) uses to calculate fuel injection for optimal air-fuel ratio by continuously monitoring intake manifold pressure information

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Diesel Diesel Fuel Systems Diesel Systems General Maintenance and Tips Need to Know Technicians

How-to reset the DPF additive level

A step-by-step guide to resetting the DPF additive level

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How to prevent brake judder

Brake judder is not necessarily the most technically challenging issue, but it can be a source of headaches for technicians, especially since fitment issues are often at the root cause of it.

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Fitting directional brake pads the right way

As automotive technology evolves, and with it customer expectations for a quieter more relaxing ride, manufacturers are turning to increasingly innovative materials and designs to reduce noise, vibration and harshness, or NVH for short.

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What is brake fade and how to prevent it

Look up ‘fade’ in the dictionary and it says ‘to gradually grow faint or disappear’ – not something you’d expect to hear in the same sentence as a safety critical component such as brakes.

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Tech Tip Thursday: The Good and Bad of Mode $09

This webinar will address the operation of MODE $09 In-Use Monitor Performance Tracking. What is it, and how can it help when trying to identify difficult-to-run monitor tests? Can MODE $09 be believed, and is it helpful?

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Tech Tip Thursday: Using Pressure Pulse Sensors

This webinar covers quick testing for engine condition, exhaust tests, intake pulse tests, crankcase tests, and using the sensor to verify the engine condition.

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Tech Tip Thursday: The Good and Bad of MODE $06

This webinar will address the operation of MODE $06. It will cover pre-CAN through the current model-year vehicles. Can MODE $06 be believed, and is it helpful? What are the pros and cons of using MODE $06?

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Tech Tip Thursday: Avoiding Lab Scope Disasters

Lab scopes are essential high-tech tools for certain automotive diagnostic tasks. This 1-hour Delphi Tech Tip Thursday webinar will give techs practical tips for avoiding diagnostic “lab scope disasters”, ranging from frustrations on getting a signal to display, to over-voltage and ground loop conditions that can damage some lab scopes.

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Tech Tip Thursday: Keeping Your Cool (2-Part Series)

In this two-part webinar series, Delphi Senior Tech Trainer Dave Hobbs will guide you through electrically heated thermostats and electric water pumps.

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Tech Tip Thursday: How We Keep Cool

In this webinar, training instructor Tom Finneran will teach you about cooling systems and how they work.

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Tech Tip Thursday: The Good and Bad of Mode $09

This webinar will address the operation of MODE $09 In-Use Monitor Performance Tracking. What is it, and how can it help when trying to identify difficult-to-run monitor tests? Can MODE $09 be believed, and is it helpful?

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Tech Tip Thursday: Using Pressure Pulse Sensors

This webinar covers quick testing for engine condition, exhaust tests, intake pulse tests, crankcase tests, and using the sensor to verify the engine condition.

Technical specification Technical Tip Videos

Tech Tip Thursday: The Good and Bad of MODE $06

This webinar will address the operation of MODE $06. It will cover pre-CAN through the current model-year vehicles. Can MODE $06 be believed, and is it helpful? What are the pros and cons of using MODE $06?

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