Automechanika is the largest automotive technology show in the world, it is held bi-annually in Frankfurt. This year there were over 4,200 exhibitors from 170 countries at the five-day expo.
Is anyone reading this article guilty of driving home from work not completely focused on the one critical task at hand: driving safely and minimising the risk of accident, injury, or death?
Whilst tyre fitting and balancing have seen some improvements around automation, wheel alignment technology has seen rapid technological advances with more coming down the pipeline.
About a month ago, Tesla opened a class leading sales and service facility in Auckland South, bigger, better and more in keeping with the brand’s ownership of the electric vehicle market.
When balancing a wheel on a balancer it can be hard to centralise using a traditional cone mounting, with a risk of not balancing the wheel correctly and in some instances damaging the wheel.
As with anything electronic, technology, in terms of vehicle electronic, moves fast, and so does the capabilities of workshop diagnostic equipment to keep up with it.
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CoolDrive Auto Parts continues to prove itself as a partner of choice for workshops, with a range of Bosch Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) calibration equipment now available.
The EV market and the subsequent potential for EV servicing is growing exponentially, whilst this is from a small base in New Zealand the numbers are adding up with an estimated 68,000+ EV’s (BEV