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Andy Savva, Alistair Mason and Tim Benson
bate the importance of special
tooling and budgeting
for them.
Tim said: “Keeping up-todate
(with tooling) isn’t easy
for an independent, but we
invest in it. If there are jobs
on a repeat basis that are a
challenge, it is not efficient
to keep doing it slowly, so
we need to buy the tools to
enable us to do it faster and
accurately.
“When we’re fitting a selfadjusting
clutch kit, for example,
we use a Schaeffler
tool, and, yes, we could do
the job without it – but it
makes it so much more difficult
and there’s the possibility
of doing the job wrong.”
On the topic of budgeting,
Andy added: “Tooling and
equipment, as well as training,
should be an ongoing
process.”
He then asked what Oldfields’
budgeting strategy
is – Tim replied: “We don’t
have a fixed budget, but I’m
aware that we need to factor
it within our costs. We don’t
buy a new diagnostic kit
every year, for example, but
we subscribe to it and keep
it updated.”
From Schaeffler’s point
of view, it offers a range of
tools to help clutch, bearing
and timing belt fitments, to
ensure technicians can ‘fit
and forget’.
The first two videos are
now available to watch on
the REPXPERT social media
channels – Facebook (@
repxpert.co.uk) and Twitter
(@REPXPERT_UK) – as well
as the REPXPERT website
(www.repxpert.co.uk
VXPRO FUEL VAPORISERS
AS part of its ongoing strategy to provide
the independent with the matching original
equipment (OE) components it needs, ELTA
Automotive Ltd, through its VXPRO sense
and control electronics programme, has
launched a range of fuel vaporisers, primarily for Ford
diesel applications.
The fuel vaporiser is a relatively new component designed
to improve the diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration
process and further reduce harmful emissions from the
engine’s exhaust gas.
DPF regeneration requires extremely high temperatures
in order for soot that builds up during everyday driving,
to be removed from the DPF by combustion. When the
driving conditions do not allow for this temperature to be
reached in the exhaust system, additional processes must
be introduced to raise the heat.
Traditionally, post injection of unburned diesel fuel into
the combustion chamber provides the catalyst and raises
temperatures. However, this has been found to cause oil
dilution leading to premature engine wear or more frequent
servicing.
Fuel Vaporisers go some way to solving this problem,
lowering emissions, whilst prolonging engine life. Rather
than being injected directly into the combustion chamber,
fuel is directed to the fuel vaporiser. The vaporiser then uses
an integrated, electrically heated glow plug to evaporate the
fuel before injecting it into the exhaust gas stream ahead of
the catalytic converter/diesel oxidation catalyst. Vaporised
hydrocarbons are then burnt on the catalytic converter,
releasing energy from exothermal chemical reactions
and raising the temperature before the DPF allowing for
regeneration to occur without oil dilution or the need for
additional cooling.
All VXPRO products are tested to ensure they operate
within the manufacturer’s original parameters, therefore
guaranteeing that there will be no change to the vehicle’s
original performance following the installation of the part.
In addition, the range also features QR codes on the
packaging, enabling installers to access a quick link to
product specific fitting and technical advice, without having
to open the box.
MOT Wallets from
www.motwallets.co.uk 0800 097 5254
sales@kpsprinters.co.uk
£178/1000 For more information concerning VISIONPRO or
VXPRO, or any of the other brands within the ELTA
Automotive product range, please call: 01675 466999,
email: sales@elta.co.uk or visit: www.elta.co.uk
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