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Schaeffler leads<br />
OESAA members at<br />
Autoform Live 2017<br />
Schaeffler Automotive Aftermarket (UK) will be joining its<br />
fellow Original Equipment Suppliers Aftermarket Association<br />
(OESAA) members, along with industry training<br />
specialist, ADS, to host Autoinform Live 2017.<br />
Held at the GTG Academy in Wolverhampton, between<br />
the 25th and 26th November, the weekend event provides<br />
technicians with crucial hands-on diagnostic training and<br />
seminars, with the aim of arming them with the latest<br />
repair techniques and alerting them to new technologies,<br />
equipment and products available in the automotive aftermarket.<br />
This year’s Autoinform Live has been separated into<br />
three groups, designed to streamline and improve the experience<br />
for the event’s growing number of visitors.<br />
Inside Autoinform Live<br />
Schaeffler’s team of REPXPERTs will be hosting IMI-approved<br />
dry double clutch system training courses throughout<br />
the weekend. <strong>The</strong>se will begin with an introduction to<br />
the system and then identifying the opportunities available<br />
for independent workshops, before an installation<br />
demonstration of a Volkswagen (VAG) DSG clutch removal<br />
and replacement is conducted.<br />
<strong>The</strong> REPXPERTs will then hold a forum to show and<br />
discuss the differences between VAG, Ford, Renault and<br />
Fiat systems. Schaeffler is urging visitors to sign-up early<br />
and express interest in an IMI-certificated assessment<br />
during the event.<br />
Additionally, Schaeffler’s latest technical innovations<br />
will be on display, like the thermal management module<br />
(TMM), which uses sensor-controlled rotary slide valves<br />
to manage the temperature balance inside the vehicle’s<br />
drivetrain. This allows the engine and transmission to<br />
reach optimum temperature quickly.<br />
Schaeffler to urge visitors to<br />
sign-up to REPXPERT<br />
<strong>The</strong> team will also be on-hand to help visitors join the<br />
68,000 active users already signed-up to REPXPERT.<br />
Schaeffler’s online garage portal allows technicians to<br />
access invaluable technical solutions, such as an LuK<br />
clutch fitting guide video or an INA timing belt specification<br />
sheet, free-of-charge.<br />
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FROM the beginning of 2016, to<br />
qualify for a 5 star Euro NCAP<br />
safety rating, all new vehicles<br />
require a minimum of two<br />
advanced driver assistance<br />
systems (ADAS) – autonomous emergency<br />
braking and lane departure warning – to<br />
be fitted as standard.<br />
ADAS technology has now led to such<br />
innovations as traffic assistance, adaptive<br />
cruise control and traffic sign recognition<br />
to be built into a vehicle to assist the<br />
driver and increase vehicle safety. All<br />
are complex pieces of technology that<br />
require equipment to diagnose faults and<br />
reset them, should they encounter any<br />
problems.<br />
Hella Gutmann Solutions has provided<br />
the solution to one of most common<br />
problems these systems encounter – the<br />
correct calibration of the cameras and/or<br />
radars these vehicles relay on to function<br />
correctly – via its unique, cost effective<br />
camera and sensor calibration (CSC) tool.<br />
Clearly there can be major repercussions<br />
if the ADAS systems are incorrectly<br />
calibrated, including inaccurate<br />
deployment, the deactivation of systems<br />
and corresponding ADAS technologies and<br />
incorrect function. Manufacturers now<br />
specify that recalibration of ADAS must<br />
take place after work has been performed,<br />
so there is also the risk that customers<br />
may pursue legal action against the<br />
workshop if the calibration is not carried<br />
out properly or ignored completely.<br />
<strong>The</strong>refore, workshops need to be<br />
equipped to handle ADAS technology,<br />
which is where Hella Gutmann Solutions<br />
steps in. Hella Gutmann Solutions has<br />
a range of equipment for workshops<br />
including the CSC tool, which can aid<br />
technicians in diagnosing and recalibrating<br />
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