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June 2015 Issue 45 www.tat.net.au 2015 Expo defies the gloom Auto aftermarket will come to the industry’s aid everybody wins TaT’s 1st choice TaT’s 2nd choice Join TaT today The TaT trade A$130 (NZ$165) p6 award winners gives you: The TaT team turns it on 12 months subscription to TaT 6 magazines mailed to your address Access to solutions online Technical assist service Subscribe on page 32 and be part of chnic ‘s a fact te ia n problem solving y s b THE INDEPENDENT f NETWORK Poorly powered patrol Tribute no so beaut? Astra ECU dashed o s • • • r n t ia echnic Your motor trades insurance specialist. Deal with an insurance specialist who understands your business. Capricorn Risk Services understands your insurance needs. Our account managers have access to a wide range of general insurance products to assist in finding the insurance you need . Find out how Capricorn can help you. 1800 007 022 | [email protected] | www.capricornrisk.com RISK SERVICES Products sold through Capricorn Risk Services Pty Ltd are: (i) discretionary risk protection products issued by Capricorn Mutual Ltd; and (ii) general insurance For the best products issued by a range of insurers and brokered through Capricorn Insurance Services Pty Ltd. Before deciding to acquire any product you should consider the interests of Product Disclosure Statement available from Capricorn Risk Services Pty Ltd to see if the product is appropriate for you. Capricorn Risk Services Pty Ltd (ABN 91 111 632 789) Authorised Representative (No. 324456) of Capricorn Mutual Ltd (AFSL 230038) and Capricorn Insurance our members Services Pty Ltd (AFSL 435197). The Automotive Technician 2 with Ken which would have cost more are merely mementos of a After each presentation, UP Newton than a good year’s salary to great event. All the discovery scores of technicians came to build, while members of the of new things takes place in our booth looking for TaT team were lugging boxes the show in an electric touchy- sign-up forms to become TaT FRONT of magazines and booth feely environment. subscribers. backdrops, collapsible tables The exhibitors bring their And we met hundreds of and stools into their stark three most knowledgeable sales existing TaT subscribers and square metre booth in the here’s something force to this show, many of every one of them raved on middle of this city of booths. about a really big them backed up by scientists, about this magazine and Ttrade show that is Some of the trade displays engineers and chemists who the time they have saved by stimulating and exciting. at Expo were two-storey were involved in product logging in to the TaT website affairs, virtually a miniature development. It was surprising to check the TaTs a fact You will see plenty of that shopfront on the High Street, to see the number of database of case studies. excitement in this issue’s complete with showroom and engineers who had travelled Expo may have left us all tired cover story which we think conference room – some even from Germany, the UK and the and exhausted, but it refuelled is justified because the had a cocktail bar cum coffee US, just for this show. Australian Automotive our fires and encouraged us shop on a second level. Even for someone like me, Aftermarket Expo is the to do more in the coming year a non-technical person, the biggest showcase for The TaT booth was frugal for our many friends in the Expo was an exhilarating technicians and mechanics in by comparison, but just as aftermarket. effective. Ours was a talking place to be for three days. the country, every two years. It One of our biggest challenges booth, a small space where just can’t be ignored. At closing time on the is to encourage more we could talk to any of the Saturday, despite sore feet, subscribers to dip into the On the evening before the 10,000 or more technicians the TaT team were euphoric. resources on the TaT website. Expo opened its doors, and mechanics who prowled Our trainers, Jeff Smit and the massive Melbourne through the alleyways, most There’s so much information Geoff Mutton had done us Convention Centre looked like loaded with showbags stuffed available and information proud with packed houses a city of the future, all glitter with brochures and gifts. How has now become the most for their seminars. Jeff Smit and lights and fancy displays much of it ever gets read essential tool in every attracted the second biggest full of polished tools, cars and afterwards is neither here nor workshop. audience of the show and banners. there. the biggest audience for a And that’s precisely what we Finishing touches were being It’s the thrill of it all. What they technical presentation – 321 were selling at the TaT Expo applied to booths, many of carry away in the showbags delegates. booth. • TaTassist • Tat chat • TaT train THE TAT TEAM • TaT’s a fact • Tips for TaT • TaT Biz CONTENTS Publisher Columnists • TaT check • TaT find Stop grieving for lost brands…………4 The Automotive Technician Julian Hentze – Georgia USA Pty Ltd Hayley Windsor – Australia are all registered trade names of TaT selects most innovative tools……6 ABN 27 121 589 802 Geoff Mutton (Business) The Automotive Technician Pty Ltd 30 Dale Street The worst Jag on earth………………10 BROOKVALE NSW 2100 Reader The Automotive Technician Pty Ltd publishes [email protected] Bron Robinson technical advice and actual case studies for the TaT to the rescue………………………11 1300 828 000 purpose of educating technicians. Advertising inquiries Everyone needs to know their limitations…12 Your motor trades Fax 1300 828 100 These advices are given in good faith, and Janene Champion are based on actual workshop repairs. No Editor in chief [email protected] guarantee is given, nor any liability accepted in Don’t stuff your strut –look for these signs…15 Ken Newton 03 5862 3090 0403 226 770 respect to any published advice. Top Tools – Terminal pin removal kit……17 [email protected] The Automotive Technician Pty Ltd is not insurance specialist. 0438 569 517 Graphic design responsible for the accuracy of any information TaT’s Interesting……………………….19 Fax 1300 828 100 Russell Jones Graphic Design contained in material submitted by third parties 0411 817 012 and published in this magazine and accepts TaT’s a fact……………………………..20 Deal with an insurance specialist who understands Technical editor [email protected] no liability in relation to such materials or their content. 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Anthony Tydd No fuel like an old fuel…………………34 Rod Maher 1800 007 022 | [email protected] | www.capricornrisk.com RISK SERVICES Maurice Donovan Expo exhibitor reviews………………..35 Products sold through Capricorn Risk Services Pty Ltd are: (i) discretionary risk protection products issued by Capricorn Mutual Ltd; and (ii) general insurance Wayne Broady For the best products issued by a range of insurers and brokered through Capricorn Insurance Services Pty Ltd. Before deciding to acquire any product you should consider the Benjamin Perry Commercial news……………………..38 interests of Product Disclosure Statement available from Capricorn Risk Services Pty Ltd to see if the product is appropriate for you. Capricorn Risk Services Pty Ltd (ABN 91 111 632 789) Authorised Representative (No. 324456) of Capricorn Mutual Ltd (AFSL 230038) and Capricorn Insurance our members Services Pty Ltd (AFSL 435197). The Automotive Technician 3 Repairer campaign, Industry Minister Stop Ian Macfarlane copped a serve for his handling of the automotive industry crisis. ‘We are very disappointed with Minister Macfarlane,’ said Stuart. ‘Ford is going in grieving 2016, Holden and Toyota in 2017, so what does the Federal Government do – tries to take $500 million out of the industry assistance program that was legislated. for lost They want to close the scheme at the end of 2018 but the problem is that nobody in Canberra has said what will replace the brands car industry. There is just no vision.’ Aussie ‘The entire Australian economy is facing Aftermarket a crisis of unprecedented proportions,’ Stuart added. ‘We have never had to The aftermarket work through the shutdown of an entire advanced manufacturing sector of an is Australia’s new industry.

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