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0:00hi I'm John from alel and I'm here with
0:04you tonight it's night time where I'm at
0:07to film a video at the request of one of
0:10autel's Distributors now this is not
0:14something that AEL does AEL does not
0:16make videos for all kinds of various
0:19Distributors we have way too many of
0:21them and we just don't have the manpower
0:22to do it but I am filming this video at
0:25the request of one one of our
0:28Distributors it's going to be available
0:30on my YouTube channel so that all of our
0:33Distributors can go ahead and share it
0:35with their customers so this video is
0:38all about using the the altel ultra scan
0:43tool for Diagnostics and this video is
0:47going to start off by covering a little
0:50bit about navigation just for when we
0:53get further down the line here and then
0:56it's going to end with actual diagnostic
0:59procedures so let's go ahead and get
1:01started we've kind of already talked
1:03about the the agenda here but what's
1:05most important when we get into the
1:08later part that Strays away from the
1:11actual navigation of the tools is the
1:14actual diagnostic mindset remember no
1:18matter what brand of equipment you
1:20happen to be using it's the diagnostic
1:22approach it's going to help you repair
1:24the vehicle so real quick just to cover
1:29a little bit very basic navigational
1:31purposes of the scanner and then we'll
1:34flow right into the scope one of the
1:36common questions we get all the time is
1:39hey I'm working on a Chrysler product a
1:41relatively new Chrysler product or a
1:43relatively new Ford product or whatever
1:45the case happens to be Volkswagen and
1:48it's not allowing me to do what I want
1:50it to do well any vehicle with a secure
1:52Gateway module you will need to go ahead
1:55and follow the procedure all of our
1:57tools are ETI certified so you can
2:00actually go ahead and either pay the $50
2:04to Auto off and then add the car lines
2:07to your autoo account or it's auto.com
2:12or in Volkswagen's case you're going to
2:15be buying some tokens and stuff like
2:16that as the time goes on more and more
2:19car manufacturers will start requiring
2:22something like that to happen one of the
2:25big things to remember in order for you
2:27to go further in your diag astics on any
2:30vehicle a secure Gateway module it does
2:33require you to have a current
2:35subscription on your scan tool it's not
2:37just altel scan tool it's anybody's scan
2:40tool that's a requirement set forth by
2:42the oems it's not set forth by any tool
2:46manufacturer so when you first start off
2:48there's a couple different ways that you
2:50will go ahead and ID the vehicle so the
2:54autel scan tools allow you to use Auto
2:56detect it will also allow you to do it
2:59the old fashion fion way where you can
3:01select your make model you know brand a
3:03vehicle all that stuff as always but you
3:06can also either scan the VIN number of
3:08the license plate a word of caution when
3:10scanning the license
3:12plate that's assuming that the vehicle
3:14has a has a legitimate plate on it if
3:17somebody has an incorrect plate on it
3:19you scan the plate it's going to look at
3:21the DMV records and it's going to tell
3:23you whatever whatever type of vehicle
3:25that plate happens to be registered to
3:28so most of us will use the autodetect it
3:30works really
3:31well now when you use autodetect and you
3:35go through it may start to come up and
3:38it may start to ask you some what we
3:40call RPO codes and I know as a
3:43technician we hate when it asks us
3:45questions but here's the important part
3:48of it the reason why there's RPO codes
3:50is there was a time when cars are very
3:53basic and all the information you needed
3:55could be obtained by looking at the VIN
3:57number nowadays however you may be able
4:00to buy an SUV that has you know two
4:03different transmission choices or it may
4:05have you know air conditioning that has
4:08you know dual zone three zones whatever
4:11the case happens to be a high
4:12performance sound system in it if you
4:15tell the information if you tell your
4:17scan tool incorrect information about
4:20the vehicle you could end up chasing
4:22your tail around trying to diagnose
4:24problems that possibly don't even exist
4:27so for instance if you happen to tell
4:28her you had a premium sound syst system
4:30and it doesn't see the components of a
4:32premium sound system it's going to want
4:34to set a false a bunch of false trouble
4:36codes so you get that information off
4:39the build data the build data can be
4:42found sometimes in the glove box on a
4:44sticker sometimes it's on the door jam
4:47where there's going to be like a little
4:48QR code that you can scan with your with
4:50your phone but make sure you give it the
4:53correct the correct RPO information if
4:56it asks you it won't always ask you but
4:58if it does keep in mind mind it is
5:00important to make sure you give it the
5:01proper information now once we go ahead
5:04and communicate with the scan tool again
5:06I'm just going through a very basic
5:09generic overview of how to navigate the
5:11tool we will come up with what we call
5:14the topology screen the topology screen
5:17as you can see on the screen here has a
5:18lot of information on it all at once
5:20it's great for helping you diagnose any
5:22type of communication type of faults
5:25it's a great place for you to be able to
5:27pull trouble codes from all the
5:28different modules on the network this
5:31way you can at least make those
5:33customers aware that there's other codes
5:35stored in the in the vehicle it also
5:37allows you to erase all the codes in one
5:40location it's not a bad idea for you to
5:43keep track of all the different trouble
5:45codes because sometimes certain codes
5:48will actually be stored where if you
5:51repair a different code then it's also
5:53going to also cure that code prime
5:55example Toyotas you get a misfire on a
5:58Toyota well you have have traction
6:00control lights and codes that get stored
6:02you have obviously check engine or
6:04engine control module codes you have ABS
6:07codes all be stored when all in all
6:09reality all you have is basically a
6:12misfiring engine and if you cure that
6:14then you can go ahead and forget about
6:16the other codes and the other modules
6:18and just erase them so we notice that on
6:21this screen also we have all the
6:23different networks identified for you
6:26with different colors of wires and next
6:28to those colors wires are actual numbers
6:32those numbers represent What terminals
6:34of the OBD2 connector that that
6:36particular Network happens Beyond and at
6:39the bottom of the screen all the
6:41different networks that this particular
6:43vehicle supports will all be identified
6:45for
6:46you okay so from this screen once you go
6:50ahead and perform the all system scan on
6:54the topology screen let's assume at this
6:57point you go into a module now once you
7:00enter the module it's going to ask you
7:01on the left hand side of your screen you
7:03know what do you want to do do you want
7:04to look at trouble codes well if you did
7:06the topology scan not a whole lot of
7:08sense in looking at the trouble codes
7:10again unless this happens to be a Ford
7:12product where they have continuous
7:14memory Keon engine off and Kean engine
7:16running most of the time you're going to
7:18be going into the live data menu so from
7:21the live data menu once you go ahead and
7:22select that you'll notice that the scan
7:25tools everybody's scan tools will give
7:27you a breakdown so I can look at all the
7:30data at once most of the time but I can
7:32also look at specific data that kind of
7:34groups it into something that makes more
7:36sense so something like misfire data or
7:39something like that what this does is it
7:42allows the scan tool to have a faster
7:44refresh rate by breaking it down into
7:46smaller categories so once I were to
7:49select one of those categories now I
7:51will come up with the screen where I'd
7:53be looking at live data it's always
7:55going to default into the actual numeric
7:58number screens
8:00but we can change that if I wanted to
8:01look at an analog gauge for one of these
8:04or if I wanted to change from from
8:06metric system to the imperial system I
8:10can change just I could change it
8:11holistically throughout all the
8:13different data stream pids or I could
8:16change just one data stream pit I myself
8:19prefer to look at everything in imperial
8:21system measurements with the exception
8:23of mass airflow sensors I like to look
8:25at that in grams per second I can also
8:28graph from this screen I have a couple
8:30different ways to graph I have a line
8:31graph I have a bar graph I also if I
8:35come across a car line that I'm not real
8:36familiar with if I hit the little I
8:39button there it will tell me what that
8:41abbreviation stands for so we'll just
8:44keep it simple for this part of the the
8:46video here ECT everybody knows that
8:49stands for engine cooler temperature
8:50sensor but if I didn't know that if I
8:52were to hit the little I button it would
8:55come out and it would say electronic
8:57coolant temperature sensor or engine
8:59coolant temperature sensor now if I were
9:02to select the graph mode from that drop-
9:05down menu and notice all the pids that I
9:07have the ability to do this to have the
9:09little drop- down menu next to it I
9:11would pull up a graph it's going to have
9:14a predetermine setup of of the graph
9:17that I'm going to see by predetermine I
9:19mean the time base and also the
9:21amplitude at the top of that graph I
9:24have the the set buttons the set y the
9:27set X so I can manip at that to
9:30basically change the amplitude of that
9:32graph or change the frequency of that
9:34graph I can even go ahead and select
9:37when to start recording on the graph
9:40mode moving on I'm showing you on this
9:44screen once I manipulated the set menus
9:47at the top of the graph what it does to
9:50the pattern so the same pattern from the
9:51previous slide I just made it look a lot
9:55larger and I changed the time that I'm
9:57actually graphing it for
9:59I can also graph multiple channels
10:02there's so many different things your
10:04tool can do again this is not really
10:06meant to be a navigational type of of um
10:10video that I'm sharing with you I'm just
10:11giving you some quick little highlights
10:14I can show them all on the same screen I
10:16can actually have split windows I can
10:18have you know if I'm looking at four
10:20different channels I could have four
10:22small little squares on the screen I
10:24have quite a bit of op um quite a bit of
10:28opportunity to to go ahead and change
10:30this screen however I want to I could
10:32change the colors of the graph if I
10:33wanted to now we also have the ability
10:37if I'm wanted to go into generic or
10:40Global OBD2 the advantage of that is
10:43number one I cannot go ahead and use
10:46Auto ID if I use Auto ID it's going to
10:48want to go onto the OEM side of OBD2 so
10:52in this case I would want to just go
10:53straight to the the OBD2 check engine
10:56light there and now this will give me
10:58the modes of of onboard
11:02diagnostics so the advantage to that is
11:05everybody plays by the same rules on the
11:07generic side so if something's called
11:10oxygen sensor voltage it's going to be
11:11called oxygen sensor voltage on a Chevy
11:14it's going to also be called oxygen
11:15sensor voltage on a Volkswagen whatever
11:17the case happens to be I'll also always
11:20have access to the valuable mode 6
11:22information on the generic side where
11:25the OEM side I may have it I may not so
11:29that's one of the huge differences the
11:31other thing too is with mode 10 the
11:35newer cars that support mode 10 those
11:37are permanent diagnostic trouble codes
11:39you can see those permanent diagnostic
11:41trouble codes you cannot erase a
11:44permanent code it requires the car's
11:46computer to run checks and balances to
11:48erase that it's never going to cause a
11:50check engine light to illuminate it's
11:52not going to cause you to fail an
11:54emissions test but the actual recording
11:57of the actual permanent code code will
11:59be there for you in mode
12:0110 we also have on the screen the
12:05opportunity to use remote expert so we
12:07got a lot of buttons we're not going to
12:09cover all these buttons here in this
12:10video but remote expert is one important
12:13one this is a great opportunity for a
12:16shop shop owner a technician whatever
12:19the case happens to be to take advantage
12:21of a feature that we put in our tools
12:23it's called remote expert remote expert
12:26basically allows you to instead of
12:29hiring somebody to come into your shop
12:31to do a programming procedure or to help
12:33you diagnose a car maybe help you out
12:36with an calibration whatever the
12:38case happens to be it allows you to use
12:41one of our vetted experts industry
12:44experts they had approved that they had
12:45the OEM training they also have the OEM
12:48tooling they're just basically using
12:50your tool as a pass through and they are
12:52remotely doing the procedure that you're
12:54asking them to do if you haven't tried
12:57remote expert yet you might want to you
12:59know play around with it a little bit
13:01give it a shot on the next time instead
13:02of calling out a mobile guy go ahead and
13:05take advantage of having the ability to
13:07use it right on your tool
13:09here so again these are just a couple
13:12screens here that kind of show the
13:13procedures of remote
13:16expert you can use remote expert on any
13:19of our any of our MS series tools so the
13:22909 the 919 or the ultra but you can
13:26also go ahead and use the remote expert
13:29feature on our Maxi flash tool so if you
13:32happen to have a competitor's tool that
13:34don't offer that and you don't want to
13:35buy a whole new scan tool we give you an
13:37affordable way it's not a scan tool but
13:39it's affordable way you could take
13:41advantage of the remote expert features
13:44here okay so moving onward here we have
13:48the ability
13:50to through remote expert do the
13:53programming like we said now if you're
13:55not doing remote expert or if you are
13:58doing remote expert no matter what one
14:01big key important point to always
14:03remember is you have to have a good
14:05internet connection now the good
14:07internet connection for a remote expert
14:10a lot of times the expert's going to
14:11inform you that they want you to hook up
14:13the actual ethernet cable there's a
14:16little adapter that came in the box that
14:18you bought your tool in that allows you
14:21to plug the USB port into the top
14:23connector over here and then plug the
14:25ethernet cable into the actual little
14:28USB spe to ethernet adapter in the tool
14:31settings menu you'll have to go in and
14:34turn that feature on so once you go
14:36ahead and turn that feature on then
14:38it'll be you you could have a Hardline
14:40connection the tool can also be done
14:43wirelessly but for programming we never
14:45recommend that you try to program
14:47wirelessly it's always better and safer
14:49to have a hardwire Connection in there
14:52when you're using the tool however for
14:54just regular diagnostics for whatever
14:56you're going to be doing it's important
14:59that in the upper right hand corner you
15:02have a green Mark next to the globe that
15:05green Mark next to the globe represents
15:07that you are connected to altel servers
15:10so this will give you the add added
15:12guided Diagnostics and stuff along those
15:14lines that you're after if you're ever
15:17getting a lack of communication or can't
15:19do something on your tool make sure look
15:21in the upper right hand corner that
15:23there is a green Mark next to the globe
15:26that's in in the upper right hand corner
15:28of your tool
15:30okay so at this point let's focus a
15:33little bit of attention on the scope
15:35part of things so if I turn on if I go
15:38into the menu again and select
15:39measurements I can turn on the actual
15:41scope feature now the scope feature just
15:44again that's going to be a very basic
15:46overview of the
15:47scope has a lot of the same features
15:50that any other of our competitor Scopes
15:53will have so if you're relatively new or
15:56Advanced our scope can go ahead and help
15:59help you diagnose and repair these cars
16:01so one of the common questions we get a
16:03lot of times is what about a waveform
16:05library the tool will come with a known
16:08good waveform Library built into it as
16:11you see on the screen right now I pulled
16:13up the waveform library I can also store
16:16my own waveforms to that same library or
16:20if I wanted to create a separate Library
16:22I can use the userdefined library and I
16:25can start creating my own Library if I
16:27wanted to now if I'm relatively new to
16:30using the
16:34scope you'll see that when I hit the
16:36little car button on the top menu bar
16:39it's going to bring up a menu button and
16:41it's going to ask me you know what are
16:43you trying to do here if I were to
16:45select actuators or starting and
16:46charging or sensors or ignition or
16:49whatever it is I was trying to get use
16:51my scope to have help me diagnose a
16:53vehicle on it's going to bring up
16:55several submenus so if I were to select
16:57something like actuators and a fuel
17:00injector it may ask me a couple
17:02different types of fuel injectors is it
17:03a gasoline direct injection in direct
17:07injection injector or is it a throttle
17:09body injector is it a multiport injector
17:12this is all made there so that it will
17:15help you set up the scope if you're
17:18relatively new to using a lab scope
17:20overall now the scope you will have with
17:23the ultra scan tool and the 919 scan
17:26tool you can buy the scope separately
17:29and add it to your 909 scan
17:33tool now with that being said we also
17:36have guided Diagnostics in our Scopes so
17:39if I were to select something it would
17:41tell me stuff like hey here's how you'd
17:43have to hook up your scope to the
17:45whatever you just selected you wanted to
17:47do it would actually if I wanted to blow
17:49up the pattern it actually give me a
17:51close-up view of it it would tell me
17:53stuff like what possible trouble codes
17:56could be stored as a result of this part
17:59being faulty it would also tell me what
18:01that part's supposed to do on a car
18:03right so if you if you're doing
18:05something that you don't really have a
18:07whole lot of experience with it would
18:08tell you code setting strategies it it
18:11it it really has a huge help feature
18:13built into it now our scope comes with
18:17the oneto one leads and a couple of
18:19ignition leads and some some
18:23attenuators however we also have another
18:26kit that's called an MS Oak so it's it's
18:29the Ms and then oscilloscope accessory
18:31kit and that's where you can get the
18:33altel Branded low amp and high amp
18:36current probes some more ignition
18:38related types of probes but I'm going to
18:41go out on the record here and say that
18:43literally any scope can be used with
18:46anybody's leads it doesn't matter if
18:47it's a altel scope or if it's a
18:50competitor scope you can interchange a
18:52leads between them autel gives you a
18:55nice feature that if I wanted to add say
18:57a pressure transducer that's a that's a
19:00lead that we don't have at autel but I
19:02can buy anybody's pressure transducer
19:05and I can actually create a special
19:07probe in my scope menu I don't need to
19:10do that I could just start using the
19:13probe if I have the scope experience
19:15that's needed to actually know how to
19:18navigate the scope and set up the time
19:20base and the triggers and everything but
19:21if I wanted to go ahead and take the
19:23time to set up a dedicated a dedicated
19:26lead or a dedicated adapter for my scope
19:30I can under the userdefined
19:33probes now some of the advantages to it
19:36obviously it's a four Channel scope I
19:38can look at so here's a typical fuel
19:40injector I can look at the voltage
19:43pattern as well as the amperage pattern
19:44of the same fuel injector and then I can
19:47go and take it a little bit further and
19:49I can say if I was using this to explain
19:51it to a customer or if I was using it to
19:55possibly teach a class on a video like
19:57I'm doing right now or what ever the
19:59case happens to be I can actually
20:01annotate this I can say okay well this
20:03is where the the battery voltage is the
20:06fuel injector is basically turned off
20:08it's told to turn on um the next screen
20:11over here is going to tell you how we're
20:13ramping up the current to build up
20:16pressure to overcome the fuel pressure
20:19so that we can open up that pintel and
20:22then it's going to eventually tell us
20:24when the fuel injector opens on the
20:25amperage screen here so you see the PIN
20:28hump there and then obviously when the
20:30fuel injector turns off and then how we
20:32would measure the millisecond pulse
20:34width of that particular
20:37injector so I can pull up the cursors on
20:40the measurement screen too we also not
20:43only have the scope but we have the
20:45graphing multimeter we have a bus
20:47inspection but we have a waveform
20:49generator I want to take a little bit of
20:51time talking about the waveform
20:53generator five different types of
20:55Automotive signals found on a vehicle
20:58all five of those types of signals I can
21:00go ahead and create so here's a scenario
21:04I like to give people I can use this if
21:06I think I have a bad part on a car I can
21:10go ahead and give the computer a known
21:12good signal just like that part would
21:15normally create and then make sure that
21:17that once I replace that part that
21:19that's going to cure the
21:22problem excuse me I can go ahead and go
21:26ahead and uh adjust that signal so if it
21:29happens to be a voltage signal you know
21:31do I want it to be a half a volt do I
21:33want it to be 5 volts I can go ahead and
21:35raise or lower that actual voltage
21:37output or pulsewidth modulation or
21:40whatever the case happens to be our
21:42special test menu we have our active
21:46tests our component test our special
21:48functions our system check and our
21:50service functions real quick a service
21:53function even though it may sound like
21:55it's a bidirectional test in the world
21:57of auta
21:59that is stuff like resetting the oil
22:01change light retracting those power
22:04brake pistons for the parking brakes um
22:07a true bidirectional test is going to be
22:09found under active test or component
22:11test so now that we've
22:14covered the actual generic like I said
22:18it was going to be a very generic
22:19overview of just navigating this tool
22:22let's talk about the dynamic dual of
22:24this tool so it's a scan tool and it's a
22:26scope and as a diagn ostian those two
22:30tools are AR are arguably the most
22:33important tools for a diagnostician to
22:36diagnose any type of computer related
22:38type of problem so I call it the dynamic
22:41dual and at this point what I want to
22:45stress again is that I even purposely
22:48put in this presentation some competitor
22:51tools screen shots just to show you that
22:54everybody's tool can actually do these
22:57types of performances so the course
23:01objectives are this I the main objective
23:04is I want you to think about the
23:06diagnostic mindset how we get from point
23:09A to point B there's no only one ro
23:12oneway road to get there technically as
23:15long as you end up at your final
23:17destination and you diagnose the car
23:19correctly then you're a winner however
23:22there's times that if you think about it
23:24and think outside of the box and I'm
23:26going to give you a whole bunch of
23:27little tips and tricks as we go through
23:29this video together that it may make
23:31more common sense to do it a certain way
23:34so think about it as how your mindset is
23:39working as you get from point A to point
23:42B and that's the most important part and
23:45your brain is always going to be your
23:48most important tool right I'm saying
23:50that wearing an altel shirt right now
23:53you know we sell tools but I'm telling
23:55you your brain and your education is the
23:57most important important tool in your
23:59toolbx so again many roads leads to the
24:02same destination um there's really no
24:05wrong way as long as you get there but
24:07can you get there faster and more
24:09efficiently that's the diagnostic
24:11mindset we're trying to to accomplish
24:13here so I always tell people this I look
24:18at no matter what type of car I'm
24:19working on I look at six main inputs
24:22those main inputs are temperature oxygen
24:25sensors both pre and post load sensors
24:28which is mass airflow or map sensor your
24:30demand sensor which is throttle position
24:32or pedal position sensors your rpm
24:35sensor and your fuel trims with those
24:38six main pids if I have a driveability
24:42related problem I have a pretty good
24:45idea what system is where the underlying
24:50fault lives so we'll use this as an
24:52example I've got a vehicle it's running
24:54rough or it's misfiring or whatever we
24:57all know that it could be on mechanical
24:59it could be fuel it could be ignition
25:01right we'll use just this one example to
25:04show the importance of these pits if I
25:08understand how to use these pids and how
25:09to diagnose them properly I now know
25:13what to do when I get out of the
25:14driver's seat I know hey I think I got
25:17an engine mechanical problem so when I
25:19open the hood these are the series of
25:21tests I want to perform on that vehicle
25:25or I think I got a fuel problem these
25:26are the series of tests because if if I
25:28thought I had an engine mechanical
25:29problem would I really care what the
25:31fuel pressure on the vehicle happens to
25:33be to fix that no not really I just want
25:35to know what the mechanical problem
25:37happens to be all right so what am I
25:40using these pits for so temperature
25:41obviously that can affect fuel trims and
25:45overall emissions coming out of the
25:46tailpipe but one that a lot of people
25:48don't stop to think about is the intake
25:50air temperature sensor to Great PID to
25:53help you help determine if you have a
25:55restricted exhaust on a vehicle if the
25:58hot exhaust gases can't make its way out
26:00the tailpipe it's going to find its next
26:02hole the next hole is going to be the
26:05the throttle plates which is then going
26:07to take the 600 700° exhaust gas
26:10temperatures and raise them up in the
26:13intake air temperature so I tell people
26:15all the time if it's if your intake air
26:18temperature sensor is reading like 180
26:21190 Dees even on a hot day underhood
26:23temperatures whatever and you're still
26:26alive and you can read this on your scan
26:29tool well you probably want to
26:31investigate the engine's ability to
26:33breathe can it actually does it actually
26:36have a restricted exhaust or not RPM
26:39sensors I use that for my crank signals
26:42um helps determine whether or not I have
26:44no fuel pressure well am I getting an
26:47RPM signal to the fuel pump relay to
26:49tell it to turn the fuel pump on in the
26:51first place also same thing with
26:53injectors and ignition coils stuff along
26:56those lines my O2 sensors pre impost I'm
27:00looking at pre impost for not only
27:02determining if it's running rich or lean
27:04but also telling me if the cause of it
27:06running um rough in this scenario that
27:09we're using as an example is a result of
27:11a fuel problem or if it's a result of an
27:15ignition related problem so I have this
27:18all listed out for you here my postcat
27:21O2 censor if it's got a higher greater
27:25than 600 molts with Upstream low or
27:28normal then that's telling you it's an
27:30ignition problem now obviously if it's
27:32the exact opposite of that that's
27:33telling you it's a fuel problem so when
27:36you get outside underneath the hood are
27:38you doing ignition system testing or are
27:39you doing fuel system testing right my
27:42throttle position sensor it should
27:45always match the load sensor you think
27:47about it when I step on the throttle
27:48plates I don't care if it has a map
27:50sensor or a mass airflow sensor I should
27:52see an immediate change in that sensor
27:55if I don't primarily in the mass airflow
27:57sensor sty style Vehicles the volumetric
28:00style Vehicles that's a good indication
28:02that I have a contaminated hot wire on
28:04that mass airflow sensor and that's
28:07going to be the reason for it to be
28:08running rough or having poor fuel
28:10economy or hesitating or stumbling or
28:13even stalling or
28:15backfiring now if I look at my fuel
28:17trims obviously I can tell if it's
28:19running rich or lean off my fuel trim
28:21short-term longterm and total trim some
28:24cars will take short-term and long-term
28:26atom together and then give you a total
28:28trim value keep this in mind for fuel
28:31related problems if it's double digit so
28:35if it's posi 10 -10 or anything higher
28:39than those numbers it's primarily going
28:42to be a fault of a fuel delivery problem
28:46so whatever that problem happens to be
28:48if happens to be a leaking injector or
28:50if it's a weak fuel pump dirty fuel
28:52filter whatever the case happens to be
28:54if it's single digit it's probably not
28:57going to be a direct result of a fuel
29:00delivery type of problem my load sensor
29:03I'm looking for any signs of a pirate
29:06air unmetered air getting inside of it
29:08um possibly a vacuum Lea if it's a map
29:11sensor I'm also looking at the
29:13calibrations of that that particular
29:15component by calibrations I've got
29:18another tool that I'm going to explain
29:20that in Greater detail of but basically
29:22is it out of is it out of spec is is my
29:25fuel trim telling me I'm lean throughout
29:27the entire dynamic range of operation if
29:30it is well that's going to either be an
29:33autocalibrated load sensor or it's going
29:36to be something that affects fuel
29:38delivery for the entire dynamic range
29:41such as a weak fuel pump if it has weak
29:44fuel pressure it's not going to fix
29:46itself at idle and then get better or
29:49get worse at off idle right so this is
29:52how you start to think with the
29:54diagnostic mindset here so once you go
29:57ahead and Mas Master those six pids this
30:00allows you to stop wearing a blindfold
30:02and when you open the hood on the car
30:03you have a a guided diagnostic path of a
30:07way to start doing more pinpoint testing
30:11on the actual systems so what's really
30:14needed we really need to know you know
30:17what the strategies are so your
30:20information systems give you the
30:22strategies autel has partnered with
30:24motor true speed when we switch over to
30:26the scan tool I'll show you how to get
30:27to that um it is an optional thing
30:30unless you happen to buy it during one
30:31of our promos that are going on right
30:33now if you buy a brand new scan tool it
30:35will come with it for a year however
30:38even if you had to pay for it it's $60 a
30:41month that's a very cheap price for a
30:43shop to pay for an information system so
30:46you'll get information like what I'm
30:48showing you here this is a big case and
30:50point that I tell people all the time
30:52don't just look at the trouble codes
30:53this is why we don't send people to
30:56AutoZone to have them pull the code and
30:58then whatever the code says put it on
31:00the vehicle because let's say for
31:02instance you had an oxygen sensor code
31:04but the customer brought you their car
31:06because they said it was hard starting
31:08right well you can look in the cold
31:10startup mode we're not even looking at
31:12the oxygen sensor so that oxygen sensor
31:14might be bad but it's not going to fix
31:16that customer's complaint so that's just
31:18one strategy that we that we're showing
31:20you here um timing strategies right so
31:25again this is a video we don't have a
31:27whole lot of time in the video to cover
31:29everything in super great detail but we
31:32don't want any spark timing Advance
31:34during cranking mode so here's another
31:36strategy that's built into in this case
31:38General Motors vehicles that when the
31:40RPM is lower than 600 RPM and it sees a
31:44knock sensor input because obviously
31:47there's a starter motor engaged into
31:49some into some teeth on a flywheeler
31:51flex plate so you're picking up that
31:53noise it knows you're cranking so it
31:55also knows you don't want any timing
31:57Advance at that point so we did away
31:59with the electronic spark timing until
32:02it starts up and the RPM goes higher
32:04than 600 600 RPM so what else do we
32:08really need we need the information we
32:10need to understand how the strategies
32:12are supposed to work something as simple
32:14as using mode 6 you know p0440 type of
32:19trouble code everybody always likes to
32:20say it's a loose gas cap or check the
32:24gas cap or replace the gas cap or
32:26whatever for instance it's for tester
32:29evap systems under four different
32:31strategies so if I understood and I
32:33looked at the mode 6 data I would be
32:36able to tell you if the gas cap could
32:38possibly be setting that code at all
32:40right so if it's if it's telling me that
32:42it's basically measuring a relatively
32:45small leak or it's measuring it at a
32:47different time or whatever this is the
32:49benefit one of the benefits to use a
32:51mode 6 it gives me the testing strategy
32:55and the conditions of when it was
32:57actually tested so not all car lines
33:00will go that far in in depth but in this
33:03one example here Ford does this one
33:05strategy and gives it to us all in the
33:08mode 6
33:09information okay so we got a common
33:12scenario here and this scenario might be
33:14hey this thing's got cam crank
33:16correlation codes well here's another
33:19little silver bullet I can throw out
33:20there for you guys in the actual world
33:24of an engine running if the if the to
33:28jump timing it's going to jump in the
33:30mode it's not going to jump in
33:32the advanced mode that's just a
33:35self-preservation of you think about the
33:37serpentine routing of the chain the belt
33:39whatever the car happens to have if it's
33:41in the advanced mode well one of two
33:44things is causing that either somebody
33:46put it on wrong right so look at the
33:49side of the engine and say or front of
33:51the engine or back of the engine
33:52wherever the timing um scenario happens
33:55to be here and it looks like somebody
33:57was is just in there doing some work
33:59then that could possibly be that but in
34:01some cases like Chryslers where they go
34:04ahead and
34:05they trigger the crankshaft off of the
34:09flex plate well that flex plate could be
34:13cracked that's a common thing that
34:15happens now why am I talking about this
34:17in the least bit well think about it do
34:19you want to take 3 hours four hours of
34:22time taking aart the front of the engine
34:24let's say just to find out that the
34:27timing is is in fact set dead on and
34:30then go ahead and start taking the
34:31transaxle out to actually go ahead and
34:34fix the real problem with the vehicle so
34:36keep that in mind again I'm just
34:38throwing out a whole bunch of different
34:40types of diagnostic types of scenarios
34:43here we also can go ahead and use this
34:45to help diagnose communication type of
34:48faults so I can hook up to pins 6 and 14
34:51and I should be able to get a good caned
34:53data signal now here's a common example
34:57this is going to be a case study I'll
34:59share with you guys this is a customer
35:00called me up 06 Buick LaCrosse it was a
35:04no condition it's been to other shops
35:06and
35:07everything 100% dead you would think it
35:10would be like a dead battery in fact one
35:12of the shops told them well your battery
35:14test good but I'm going to put one in
35:16anyways somehow that shop can charge
35:18people for stuff like that obviously it
35:20didn't fix the vehicle so it comes to me
35:22I go ahead and I hooked up two pins to
35:26the communication pins on this
35:27particular vehicle and I see the problem
35:29right away I have no communication no
35:31lights on the dash my scan tool will not
35:34talk to it so I'm just going into the
35:36communication pins on the OBD2 connector
35:39and using my scope and I see that that
35:42scope signal is being held high it's not
35:44going back down to ground so I know that
35:47this is the this is the reason why this
35:49car is 100% dead so I have to go to my
35:52information system I find out that I was
35:55lucky this is a Stars type of design
35:57system system so it's got It's got the
35:59little splice connector I found where
36:01the splice connector was I removed the
36:03splice connector I printed out a
36:05schematic and I notice that there's
36:08whatever I'm not going to try to look at
36:10this uh schematic on the small little
36:12laptop screen but let's say there's 10
36:14or 12 wires there and I'm going to say
36:17I'm going to go ahead and put each one
36:19of those wires or modules back on the
36:21network one at a time while I'm watching
36:23my scope until I have the bad one that
36:26makes the scope signal go high again so
36:29it turns out and I got this information
36:32from motor true speed it turns out and
36:35this is how I'm doing the back probing
36:36and putting them back on the module
36:38Network all at one at a time
36:41single-handedly and notice that when I
36:43got to the faulty one it says that the
36:46signal is out of range because it's
36:48going higher than what my scope setting
36:50was here so it turns out that it happens
36:53to be the airbag module right which is
36:55underneath the passenger seat on this
36:57particular particular vehicle my
36:59suspicion was the vehicle was in a flood
37:01cuz there was a lot of water underneath
37:02the carpeting in that area but there's a
37:05picture of the SRS module the airbag
37:08module so obviously that you know 100%
37:12visually explains why we were having
37:14this type of problem um the picture on
37:16the left-and side of the screen shows
37:18you the replacement module obviously
37:19there's nothing wrong with that one but
37:21that's comparison to what the was what
37:24was in the actual vehicle there's the
37:26actual waveform after after it was all
37:28done right so after it was repaired
37:30successfully now I've got a goodlook
37:32pattern on the screen here so the
37:36mindset again is what's most important
37:39and I know I'm going kind of fast
37:40because I don't want to make this a very
37:42long video I I promise to people I would
37:45keep it between an hour and an hour and
37:46a half and we're already over the hour
37:48time frame here so I only have you know
37:51a little bit of time left to go so doing
37:54the road test here we want to
37:58try to duplicate the problem but if the
38:01problem can't be duplicated right how
38:03many times have we've all run down this
38:06scenario we can go ahead and try to
38:08graph certain things now this next tool
38:11is not the tool that we're talking about
38:14here at the ultra but we can still do it
38:16with the ultra it won't look exactly
38:18like it but for explaining exactly what
38:21I want to explain this is why I'm using
38:24this other competitor's tool to actually
38:26show you the screen here so this one I
38:29don't need this on right so the first
38:31one is a is a Chevy Avalanche I knew it
38:34had a bad fuel pump before I even open
38:36the hood just the way how it was acting
38:38right but this is great to get you into
38:41the diagnostic mindset so we'll use this
38:43one as an example first so I can pull
38:46out the codes and there are a handful of
38:49codes associated with it mostly lean
38:52codes that were associated with it I
38:54kind of suspected it had a bad fuel pump
38:57I did put a fuel pressure gauge on there
38:59and I'm confirming that I do have a bad
39:00fuel pump on this should be for those
39:03that aren't familiar with this
39:04particular vehicle should be 61 PSI
39:07right I got roughly 11 so it will start
39:10and it will idle but if you try to
39:12accelerate it's going to die right out
39:14the vehicle is towed in so here I have a
39:18picture of the fuel trim on the left
39:20hand side now again the autel tool can
39:23do it it won't look exactly like this
39:25but I can go ahead and use the graphing
39:28features of the altel tool to get a very
39:31similar type of scenario here just won't
39:33show you square blocks but this is
39:35representing the entire dynamic range
39:38for for Bank One and for Bank two now
39:41this one color codes it and gives it to
39:43you in red green or yellow um it even
39:45has like an orange color as well
39:48obviously Red's no good green is what
39:49you'd like but no matter where I was
39:52throughout the dynamic throttle range of
39:54this vehicle I'm in the red which makes
39:56sense because I got low fuel pressure so
39:58I'm not going to have good fuel trim no
40:00matter if I'm at idle or accelerating or
40:03anything now remember anytime I try to
40:05accelerate this thing wants to stall so
40:07I I can't fill up all the boxes there
40:10because it wants to stall out so I'm
40:12trying my best to populate that box
40:14there for you now I also this would also
40:17affect volumetric efficiency as well so
40:21again this same tool that we just showed
40:23you actually has a nice little graph
40:25that you can measure volumetric
40:26efficiency on but let's talk about if
40:28you don't happen to have that graph what
40:30is volumetric efficiency well your tool
40:33knows cuz you just told it the type of
40:35car you're working on it knows what the
40:37cubic inches are of the engine or liter
40:39size of the engine it knows all the
40:42stuff it needs to know so the bore the
40:44stroke all that kind of stuff what we
40:46want basically to do is we have a
40:48theoretical volumetric efficiency which
40:51means in a perfect world at wide open
40:53throttle that things should pump so much
40:55air and then we have the actual
40:57volumetric efficiency now obviously that
40:59will change over time as the engine
41:01starts to wear out but these are the
41:03things that I'd want to graph i' want to
41:04graph those type of pids to get my
41:07volumetric efficiency reading now you
41:09can use a volumetric efficiency
41:11calculator as well you can go ahead and
41:13type this stuff in all that stuff's free
41:15on online you can even use Quick links
41:18and and download a volumetric efficiency
41:21calculator onto your Ultra scan tool
41:23under quick links and then you can have
41:25a a volumetric effic efficiency
41:27calculator built right into your tool if
41:29you wanted to so what is volumetric
41:32efficiency we'll go back to that
41:34particular tool that we were using
41:35before just for graphical purposes and
41:38we'll have basically have two lines
41:40we'll have a yellow line and a red line
41:43and one of the lines represents the
41:45theoretical volumetric efficiency one's
41:48going to represent the actual we want
41:50those to be on top of each other we want
41:52them to match 100% no matter what the
41:56dynamic range happens to be here so if
42:00the engine's
42:01good why isn't volumetric efficiency
42:04ever going to be 100% well because we
42:07have valve overlap on a vdesign engine
42:10we also have little slots in the piston
42:13ring so we're never going to have a 100%
42:15sealed combustion chamber so with that
42:18scenario here I got a couple more
42:20results here that a good volumetric
42:23efficiency reading should be
42:2580% 90% would be even better now where
42:28this where we throw a monkey wrench into
42:31this whole scenario is a non-naturally
42:34aspirated engine so if you got a
42:35supercharger or Turbo turbocharger those
42:38readings are going to be much higher
42:40doesn't mean that the engine's good it
42:42just means that because we're using
42:44forced air induction of some sort those
42:46numbers are going to be higher but we
42:48usually will have a sensor in our data
42:51stream that would tell us whether or not
42:54the engine's good so those vehicles that
42:56are not non naturally aspirated a lot of
42:59times we'll have a pit for us to be able
43:01to use here so I can use my fuel Trims
43:03and my volumetric efficiency values here
43:07to help me determine if there's an
43:08engine mechanical problem and then what
43:11the engine mechanical problem is I'm
43:12going to go further into diagnosing what
43:15it happens to be so is it a timing
43:17problem is it a is it a bad mass air
43:20flow sensor out of calibration type of
43:22problem is it a a valve train problem is
43:25it a restricted exhaust problem whatever
43:27the case happens be so here's an
43:29avalanche after the repair was done
43:31notice that we don't have the red boxes
43:34anymore I can also use the same scenario
43:37to help me determine if there's carbon
43:39buildup on the mass air flow sensor wire
43:41so here this this car wasn't in for any
43:43driveability thing I was just playing
43:45around with the tool and I noticed that
43:47hey my graphing the graphing the mass
43:51airflow sensor I see that I've got a
43:54whole bunch of dynamic blocks different
43:56ranges there that our fuel trim and
44:00integrator and block learn block cell
44:02memories are all out of calibration and
44:05it's not throughout the entire dynamic
44:08range at idle it seems to be fairly
44:11worse but the longer I held it at a
44:13higher RPM the more it started to
44:16correct itself just like eventually
44:19you're going to feel the cold air no
44:21matter how much insulation you have on
44:23you on a on a cold day outside but
44:27originally you don't feel it which is
44:28why we have red at the bottom and then
44:31it slowly starts turning yellow and
44:33green so again we should also be able to
44:37take and graph our throttle position
44:40sensor or pedal position sensor and mass
44:42airf flow if it's voltage if I'm convert
44:45it over to voltage and they should
44:47respond 100% they should mirror one
44:49another if I accelerate the car it
44:52should immediately go ahead and pick up
44:54that change of incoming air if it's a
44:56map sensor it should should immediately
44:57see that the engine vacuum wants to drop
45:00when I open up the throttle plates so
45:04let's go ahead and continue on with a
45:06couple more little silver bullets that I
45:08want to share with you guys here I'm
45:10going to leave these screens up a little
45:11bit you guys can go ahead pause the
45:14video and watch it but these are silver
45:16bullets of just interpreting diagnostic
45:19data stream right so if it's greater
45:22than five suspect um a faulty O2 sensor
45:25or a vacuum leak these are what normal
45:28fuel trim value should be right um we
45:31got short-term we got long-term I use
45:33short-term for diagnosing vacuum leak
45:35type of problems I use longterm for
45:38diagnosing legitimate problems as I like
45:41to call them like you know fuel delivery
45:43problems stuff along those lines
45:45ignition related types of problems so
45:48now that you guys have seen that page
45:51for a little bit let me go ahead and
45:52advance to the next page because these
45:54are more silver bullets and again
45:57instead of me trying to make this video
45:58last a real long time you can pause the
46:01video you can copy this down this will
46:04help you diagnose where the problem lies
46:07and then I have another screen that
46:10comes up here that gives you a few more
46:13little silver
46:14bullets all right so now let's kind of
46:18try to start wrapping this video up here
46:20and let's talk about some of the other
46:22Diagnostics we can do I can go ahead and
46:25think outside of the box right so I can
46:28take an amplified pressure transducer a
46:31pulse style pressure transducer one
46:33that's one that I can't put inside of a
46:37combustion chamber and I can just simply
46:40put it in the exhaust tailpipe and I can
46:43tell you if the vehicle is running rough
46:45or has a misfire present now once I see
46:48it I want it to be uniform so the top
46:50pattern should be uniform because those
46:51are the exhaust pulses right if it's not
46:54uniform if it looks like this I don't
46:57know which cylinder is causing it right
46:59but think about this you got a P0300
47:01type of trouble coat it's a random
47:03misfire coat it doesn't give you any
47:04other guided Diagnostics here throw that
47:07that pulse style transducer in the
47:09tailpipe go ahead and take channel two
47:12of your scope and hook it up to an
47:13ignition or a fuel injector now we can
47:16have some type of firing order type of
47:18event now since we're using it in the in
47:21the exhaust tailpipe remember this it
47:23takes a little bit of time for that
47:25exhaust pulse to get down through the
47:27exhaust system so on a V8 you should
47:30count three pulses afterwards a V6
47:33should be two pulses afterward and a
47:35four cylinder should be one pulse
47:37afterwards just so you can kind of have
47:38an idea of the actual timing event here
47:43I can also help determine whether or not
47:45with that same pulse amplifier I could
47:48put it in the dipstick tube take the
47:50dipstick out put it in the tube and I
47:51could tell you if I have you know worn
47:53rings on the on the vehicle right I can
47:56also so there's a good engine on the
47:58right I want it to be uniform bad engine
48:00excessive blowby on the left here's
48:02another picture of the exhaust pulse I
48:05can also use the other type of pressure
48:07transducer that I can screw inside of a
48:10combustion chamber now the advantage to
48:12doing this is not only will I get the
48:14actual compression ratio here but I can
48:17see the intake and exhaust Pockets I'll
48:20be able to tell you things that I can't
48:22tell you any other way including with a
48:24cylinder leakage test or anything else
48:26sonar leakage test that fails is just
48:28telling you I got a valve train problem
48:30doesn't help me determine what the valve
48:31train problem is is it being stuck open
48:34is it is it crack you know whatever the
48:36case happens to be going inside the
48:38combustion chamber gives me a very good
48:40view and a very good understanding of
48:43what could be wrong engine mechanical
48:45wise with this
48:46vehicle I can also even go ahead and use
48:49it on a fuel rail not on a GDI unless
48:53I'm on the low side but on the on any
48:56other type of fuel rail or even a GDI if
48:58I'm on the low side and I can help
49:00determine if the injectors are flowing
49:04properly going strictly to just a vacuum
49:07hose this replaces a mechanical cylinder
49:11leakage test right so I got a good
49:13pattern on the left I got a faulty
49:15pattern on the right the faulty pattern
49:17on the right the very last one has a
49:20burned exhaust valve so you can kind of
49:22see we want it to be uniform we
49:24obviously don't have the drop down on
49:26that exhaust stroke there so I can see
49:29this now which my question is which
49:31would you rather do would you rather
49:32take spark plugs out and screw screw
49:35pressure gauges in and inject air
49:38compressor um values into your cylinder
49:41leakage gauge here hope the Piston stays
49:44at true top dead center that's a lot of
49:46time consume right or I can just remove
49:49a vacuum hose and plug in a little
49:50sensor on there and get the same type of
49:52test results relative compression that
49:55can be done as well you you can do that
49:57with your scan tool if you go ahead and
49:59make a special little lead you can plug
50:02it right into your scope so basically
50:05you take an OBD2 connector you can buy
50:07it off Amazon you're only hooking up the
50:09positive and negative terminals of that
50:11OBD2 connector put it onto a BNC style
50:14lead or if you have a competitor tool
50:16banana Jacks whatever and then you can
50:18just start cranking the car over make
50:21sure that the car doesn't start up so
50:22remove a fuel pressure um a fuel pump
50:25relay whatever the case happens if you
50:27to make it easy I also have the ability
50:30to go ahead and interpret the caned data
50:33stream so I can interpret the can data
50:36stream um getting a heximal code I can
50:39then go to Wikipedia out of all sources
50:42and help me get some type of PID
50:45diagnostic so if I happen to notice that
50:47I have a
50:48faulty information packet that's that's
50:51screwing up my signal I can go in there
50:53and I could try to figure out try to
50:56diagnose through the heximal coding in
50:58Wikipedia hey this says uh throttle
51:01position sensor well I know that's the
51:02engine control module that's talking at
51:04this
51:05point I'm going to go ahead
51:09and forward through to the secondary
51:12ignition stuff here this is if I'm
51:15looking at the secondary ignition
51:16pattern I have the ability to help
51:19determine you know what's causing this
51:21thing to run rough is it a faulty coil
51:24pack is it a rich running condition is
51:27it a lean running condition all by
51:30looking at the firing the spark line I
51:33should say of being able to go ahead and
51:37determine what's wrong with this vehicle
51:39so once I go ahead and look at the
51:41horizontal type of line not the vertical
51:43line the vertical line is great for
51:45telling me if I have coil pack problems
51:47or if I have an open plug wire stuff
51:48along those lines but the horizontal
51:51line is going to tell me I would like it
51:53in in all practical Theory to be as
51:56level as possible it's never going to
51:58happen on a on a modern day vehicle or
52:00even on an older vehicle but if that if
52:03that horizontal line is starting to
52:05drastically slope down that's telling me
52:07it's becoming increasingly easier to
52:10keep the fire going inside that cylinder
52:12so start thinking along the lines of to
52:14running too rich right if it's doing the
52:17opposite and it's sloping upwards it's
52:19harder to keep the fire going so it's
52:21running on the lean side if I have a
52:23compression problem what will happen is
52:25you never have zero PSI of compression
52:28you always have maybe like 30 PSI or 15
52:31psi so it's going to start off
52:33relatively normal then it's going to do
52:34a sharp little drop and if you see that
52:38happening where it sharply drops that's
52:40showing you it's an engine mechanical
52:41type of
52:43problem okay
52:46so looking at the actual amperage
52:49pattern of a coil pack I have the
52:51ability to determine do I have a faulty
52:53coil pack right so I can take an
52:55amperage pattern I can look at and zero
52:58in on the initial turn on I should see
53:01resistance to current flow if I don't
53:04see that if I see like on the next slide
53:07here the one on the right if I see a
53:10drastic upward rise and then it goes
53:13into the the slope I know for a fact
53:17that there's a problem with the coil
53:19windings I should always see that
53:21resistance to current flow when I zoom
53:23in on my scope now you might be saying
53:25hey that's all great job but how do I
53:27get that on vehicles that have an intake
53:28manifold cover and half the coils well
53:31remember the coil itself is going to
53:33share a power it's either going to share
53:35it with half the coil packs or half the
53:38injectors if I'm testing fuel injectors
53:41or it's going to share it with all of
53:43them so you could print out a schematic
53:45figure out where it's getting its power
53:46from clamp around the power side because
53:50amperage Remains the Same on both the
53:52positive and negative side of the
53:53circuits here a little quick little
53:56showing of how you'd actually hook up
53:58your coil clamp to different types of
54:01ignition
54:03systems I can use it to test any type of
54:05motor you ever have a vehicle come into
54:07your shop that says hey the starter
54:10won't engage and some Oldtimer told you
54:13hit that starter motor with the hammer
54:14and all of a sudden it magically starts
54:16right same thing happens with fuel pumps
54:18or whatever the case happens to be well
54:20that's what that pattern would look like
54:22whatever type of motor is I'm trying to
54:24test if I see that sharp drop off in
54:26there I guarantee you that's the reason
54:28why it didn't crank or that's the reason
54:30reason why the fuel pump didn't pump any
54:32fuel whatever the case happens to be
54:34here so now what I'm going to do since
54:36we are drastically going out of time
54:39here I'm going to go to the end of this
54:44presentation and if you want to know
54:47more about Technical Training autel
54:50offers at their Port Washington location
54:53a
54:54two-day level of Advanced Diagnostic
54:58training we also currently have
55:00training there and EV training as well I
55:03would like to add more classes but as of
55:05right now those are the three classes we
55:07have on the schedule you can go to
55:08ael.com you can see when the next
55:11classes are talk to your distributor and
55:15start to start to go ahead and inquire
55:19about getting the training card and get
55:21signed up and registered for the classes
55:24we would have two days to spend together
55:26where we do Hands-On stuff we show you
55:28this stuff in a lot greater detail
55:31also again this has absolutely nothing
55:34to do with autel because autel does not
55:37do videos for end users I am doing this
55:42as as just a gesture for this one
55:45distributor that asked me to do this for
55:47them and I'm sharing it with all the
55:49other Distributors on my YouTube channel
55:51anybody that wants to benefit from this
55:53can benefit from it I also have my own
55:57YouTube channel there's a link right
55:59there on the screen you can go there I
56:01have tons of Technical Training type of
56:04stuff on that YouTube channel again
56:07that's free you can go to that you can
56:09view it I will have a disclaimer since
56:12I've became an employee of
56:14autel any equipment that I've used since
56:17I've been an employee of autel is always
56:20going to be Auto kind of makes sense but
56:23again it also like I said a couple times
56:26in this
56:27presentation most of the diagnostic
56:29procedures can be done no matter what
56:31type of piece of equipment you happen to
56:33have I'm also giving away the web
56:36address to an automotive AI program that
56:40we've created as well now what's makes
56:43this AI program different it's free to
56:45use both of these things that I'm giving
56:47away free to anybody that's watching
56:49this video what makes this AI program
56:52different is it doesn't just go out to
56:54the internet and search a 100 different
56:56websites or thousands of websites and
56:59try to populate some kind of response
57:01this is stuff that came from my 40 years
57:05as a mechanic so also as a trainer so
57:08training curriculum training videos you
57:11know all the research the case studies
57:13everything that I've had this is where
57:15it goes to and looks for its answers so
57:17you could type in and you could try to
57:19find it one last thing I'm going to
57:21throw out there and again this is not an
57:24autel promotion so I'll probably be
57:27looking for another job by the time this
57:29video is over with but this is a special
57:31school promotion that I have don't ask
57:34your distributor to call up AEL and ask
57:37them what it's about they have no idea
57:38what this is about this is something
57:40that I'm willing to do I've put together
57:42this whole school training curriculum
57:44package that's made for professional
57:48Educators only so basically the
57:51requirement is this you have to work at
57:53a high school or a postc Secondary
57:56School a college you have to have a
58:00edu email address that's your proof that
58:03you're actually a high school instructor
58:06or a college postsecondary type of
58:09instructor if you were to go and talk to
58:11your distributor and purchase
58:14$25,000 which is not very much when it
58:16comes to the world of equipment $225,000
58:19worth of autel equipment which I
58:21guarantee you is going to be superior to
58:24any of the other brands of equipment
58:26when you're looking for something if you
58:27were to do that have that distributor
58:30prove to me that you've actually
58:32submitted a PO and also prove to me that
58:34you have the dot that you have the edu
58:37type of email address I'm going to give
58:41you a full
58:44complimentary training program that I
58:46put together and basically what's on the
58:49training program well I'm going to go
58:52ahead and pull this up so everybody can
58:54see obviously there's like a 600 page
58:57manual 600 page manual is a student
59:00manual the 600 page manual obviously
59:03you're only going to get one of those
59:04I'm not giving you 25 or anything I'd go
59:06broke with this you'll get one of those
59:09and then you're going to get an
59:10instructor disc there's also going to be
59:12a student dis which I'll show you what's
59:15on the student dis here in a second but
59:17what's on the instructor disc so I'm
59:19going to open up the instructor disc
59:21here and if we can flip back over to the
59:24computer here we're going going have
59:26case studies that you can use we're
59:28going to have the
59:30actual image gallery of all different
59:33types of images I'll open a couple of
59:35these up momentarily we'll have a co-op
59:37project so if you're an actual
59:39legitimate educator you know what the
59:41co-op projects and stuff like that
59:43learning modules are self-paced learning
59:45modules those are great activities for
59:47when you are out and you have a
59:49substitute so a substitute doesn't need
59:51to know anything about cars and they can
59:53pass these these sheets out and have the
59:55students do them we also have lesson
59:58plans so you don't have to create your
59:59own lesson plans anymore we have student
1:00:01worksheets tests and answer keys so what
1:00:04are some of the stuff that you'd have
1:00:06out there um let's go ahead
1:00:10into and then obviously we have a bunch
1:00:12of different chapters for PowerPoints as
1:00:14well right and I even gave you some
1:00:16bonus EV type of material but when you
1:00:20follow it you don't have to follow I'm
1:00:22not saying they should replace your
1:00:23current curriculum this should
1:00:24supplement your current curriculum so
1:00:26whatever curriculum you happen to be
1:00:28using you can go ahead and use this you
1:00:31can't use it for profit just like this
1:00:33video cannot be used for profit you can
1:00:36use it to go ahead and teach your
1:00:37student body now what's on the actual
1:00:41student disc right so real quick I'll
1:00:44just kind of show you what's on the
1:00:49actual dis here takes a little while for
1:00:53it to open up because it's a very large
1:00:55Pro
1:00:57program I'm going to go ahead and say
1:00:59enable
1:01:00content I'm going to trust the source
1:01:03I'm going to go
1:01:05into slideshow mode for all the
1:01:08hyperlinks to work so this is something
1:01:10that your students will get now you get
1:01:13all the Powerpoints and everything else
1:01:15you get the lesson plans you get the
1:01:17substitute thing the the test the answer
1:01:20keys the worksheets all that stuff that
1:01:22we talked about this is something that
1:01:25other than the actual manual itself this
1:01:28is something that the students will get
1:01:30here's a way that they can go through
1:01:32and they can use this to help them
1:01:34diagnose Vehicles use it as a refresher
1:01:37use it to help to study for your tests
1:01:39that are coming up they can use it to
1:01:41help to diagnosed cars for the rest of
1:01:43their life if they wanted to so
1:01:45basically you'd start off in the main
1:01:46index these are how it's broken down for
1:01:49this particular computer program and
1:01:51again it's all hyperlink together so
1:01:53they don't have to go Slide by slide you
1:01:55wouldn't want to do that it's a thousand
1:01:57plus slides but let's say for instance I
1:01:59wanted to go into ignition system
1:02:02testing right now I got all the
1:02:04overviews I got all the hyperlinks here
1:02:07maybe I wanted to know more about
1:02:08primary voltage testing so I could go
1:02:11into primary voltage testing gives them
1:02:12a quick little example of what primary
1:02:15voltage is shows them a known good
1:02:17waveform right let's go back to the main
1:02:19index I'm not going to go through all of
1:02:21this but Global generic diagnostic
1:02:24trouble codes
1:02:27let's pull up one of these we'll just
1:02:28pick on the first one there's what a
1:02:31p0106 actually means what what was the
1:02:34enable criteria for that um why did the
1:02:37code set so the code setting strategies
1:02:40what they should try to do to help
1:02:41diagnose it right this is using just
1:02:44very basic types of diagnostic tools
1:02:46assuming like a scan tool and a digital
1:02:49multimeter also what monitors if any
1:02:52were suspended as a result of that I
1:02:54also have a waveform library inside here
1:02:57so they can click on something and they
1:02:59can say hey I happen to be looking at a
1:03:02a um mass airflow sensor or a Ford pip
1:03:05sensor an older type of Ford pip sensor
1:03:08here's a known good pattern explains
1:03:10even the wire color to hook it up to so
1:03:13that's what's on the technician desk so
1:03:15if this is something of value to you and
1:03:16you're a secondary teacher or a
1:03:18postsecondary teacher of some sort again
1:03:21you're going to be buying equipment
1:03:23anyways if you happen to make the
1:03:25purchase of the autel equipment which
1:03:27you won't regret 100% I'm a firm
1:03:29believer in that you'll get this for
1:03:31free something that none of our other
1:03:33competitors can offer other competitors
1:03:36will give you a discount on tools I give
1:03:38you a discount on all that kind of stuff
1:03:40but none of the other competitors has a
1:03:42retired Automotive teacher so I know
1:03:45what you're after I know how to make the
1:03:48class easier for you to teach because as
1:03:52a professional technician or instructor
1:03:55we have lot more going on behind the
1:03:57scenes than just standing in front of a
1:03:58group of students trying to deliver some
1:04:01some training stuff I want to switch
1:04:03over to the autel tool and then I'll
1:04:05wrap this up couple things that were not
1:04:07in the presentation here I'm using demo
1:04:10mode right now notice that there's the
1:04:14topology screen which we did talk about
1:04:16so I don't have to go through that but
1:04:19how can I enter the actual what's a
1:04:21quick easy way to enter the actual motor
1:04:24true speed if I have that at the bottom
1:04:26of the screen it says vehicle data so if
1:04:29I click on the vehicle data
1:04:31here it's taking me to the motor true
1:04:34speed website and it's going to
1:04:37automatic the nice thing about doing it
1:04:39this way I can always go to motor true
1:04:41speeds website and build the car but
1:04:45once I've
1:04:46already recognized the car with my scan
1:04:49tool it's not going to force me to
1:04:50select your make model all that kind of
1:04:52stuff plus if I were to do the topology
1:04:55and there happen to be trouble codes or
1:04:57something like that stored it's going to
1:04:59also go ahead and populate them easily
1:05:02on the screen for me so I have the
1:05:04ability to quickly go in and see if
1:05:06there's a TSB for the code or see you
1:05:09know how to diagnose that type of
1:05:11trouble code whatever the case happens
1:05:13to be but I can go in and I can pull up
1:05:15wiring schematics everything that you
1:05:17could do with your information system
1:05:18now that you currently are using we have
1:05:20the ability to do that now the other
1:05:23thing I wanted to show everybody while
1:05:25we're were on this screen is the
1:05:26measurement button so most of the time
1:05:29you're going to be hovering around in
1:05:31the red diagnostic box unless you happen
1:05:34to have the EV version like I have now
1:05:36then obviously anything hybrid or EV you
1:05:39go to the green box everything else you
1:05:41go to the red box however if you wanted
1:05:45to use the scope or anything that your
1:05:47vcmi um module came with this is where
1:05:50You' go to for the measurements and if I
1:05:52click on that then it brings up the
1:05:54osilloscope way way form generator bus
1:05:57inspection and also the graphing
1:05:59multimeter okay so I know this was a lot
1:06:02of information thrown at you all at once
1:06:05hopefully everybody got something out of
1:06:07this again you can now that you know the
1:06:10YouTube channel and stuff there are some
1:06:13other videos on there there's constantly
1:06:15videos being added to it but if you
1:06:17really wanted a very in-depth diagnostic
1:06:20training class there's a two-day
1:06:22diagnostic training class at ael.com
1:06:24talk to one of your Distributors sign up
1:06:27through them or call up AEL and sign up
1:06:29for the class that way so hopefully
1:06:32everybody got something out of it I
1:06:34appreciate everybody for watching and I
1:06:36look forward to seeing you guys all in
1:06:38person at some point in the future
1:06:40thanks

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