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The Next Generation Needs You

Posted by Becca Knight on November 11, 2020

It feels pretty strange out there in the automotive world. Like many other industries, teetering on the edge of collapse and recovery. Treading a fine line between being part of the world we cannot live without and yet could all go under before we have balance restored. 

It can feel like all the opportunities the business needs to keep operating are all but gone, and if they weren’t already, then the stop-start nature of the covid-19 restrictions and relaxations will definitely do it. However, don’t lose hope just yet; the next generation needs your workshop.

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Topics: workshops, workshop challenges, recover together, Next generation vehicle, ways to serve your customers

5 Ways To Invest in Your Workshop

Posted by Becca Knight on November 11, 2020

This list is designed to firstly help you face the challenges that Covid-19 has presented; get the most from operating on less staff and build up workshop efficiency. But secondly, and most importantly, its designed to help you stop needing to operate on less staff staff, to increase business demand and workload, so that you no longer face this challenge.

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Topics: workshops, teamwork, recover together, ways to invest in your workshop

Common Rail Injector Coding & The Hartridge Mission

Posted by Lee Jacobs on February 12, 2019

The Hartridge mission, which we boldly accept, is to ensure that fuel injection components are tested according to OEM standards. We seek to do this to the highest criteria with the correct methods, even if these methods mean we can’t take a quick & easy path to providing workshops with what they need to achieve these OEM standards.

So for us CR injector coding; if it is to be done correctly, is simply a means of ensuring that an injector which passes the Hartridge test plan is then calibrated to perform as originally specified by the OEM.

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Topics: Sabre CRi Master, workshops, diesel injector, injector testing, Common rail injectors, diesel workshops, coding, Sabre CRi Expert, injector coding

Future Proofing the Workshop

Posted by Becca Knight on August 09, 2017

The Back to the Future trilogy may be great classic films but they did get a few things wrong. The distinct lack of hover boards in 2015 has hit people pretty hard. The world has been predicted to end multiple times but here we are. It’s safe to say that we aren’t that great at predicting the future and hindsight helpfully highlights exactly how far off track we were. So given how hard the future is to predict is it possible for an after sales department to see ahead and future proof the workshop accordingly? And if it is conceivable, then how far ahead is it possible to plan?

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Topics: DPF 300 Master Series, heavy duty workshops, workshops, vehicle workshops, future proof, future proofing, preparing the workshop

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