Raybestos, a member of the Affinia family of brands, has introduced new Raybestos brand Advanced Technology and Professional Grade control arms. According to Affinia, these are direct replacements of the OE part, offering reliable and accurate handling that withstands the demands of modern vehicles.
Mudlick Mail, a provider of direct mail services for auto repair shops, has forged an agreement with CARQUEST Auto Parts to offer a direct mail program exclusively for the company’s TECH-NET Professional Auto Service network. The program is designed to help TECH-NET members reach new customers and grow their businesses.
Bosch’s hybrid-ready ACS 620H Digital A/C Refrigerant Handling System is user-friendly and independently certified to the new J2788 High Voltage Addendum standard. This allows the shop to service hybrid vehicle A/C systems utilizing high-voltage electric drive compressors. Accurate, safe hybrid service is made possible by the service hose flush capability, and the absence of on-board oil injection, which prevents system oil cross contamination greater than 1000 PPM between back-to-back services.
The Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association (AAIA) is producing the Shop of Tomorrow at AAPEX in booth #3066 to showcase an innovative breakthrough approach to vehicle service using connected technology. In the Shop of Tomorrow, management and service information systems communicate seamlessly with equipment in the back shop.
Federated Auto Parts and its drivers, Ken Schrader and Tom Hessert, have gone pink – the Federated teams will showcase special paint schemes for the month of October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.
California Gov. Edmund Brown has signed into law CA S.B. 869, legislation that amends current law regulating automotive repairers. The new law amends the Automotive Repair Act. It provides that an automotive repair dealer who prepares a written estimate for repairs that includes the replacement of a deployed airbag and then fails to restore the airbag, as specified, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a $5,000 fine, one-year imprisonment in a county jail, or both the fine and imprisonment.
According to a Sept. 20 poll conducted by the Small Business Majority, 80 percent of small businesses support increasing the fuel economy requirements to 60 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2025. This finding was part of a larger study assessing the position of small businesses toward clean energy initiatives.
The latest Harris Poll measuring how the public perceives 22 of the nation’s largest industries shows massive changes over the past two years. The biggest changes since 2009, when the survey was last conducted, are a huge improvement in the number of people who think that the automobile industry is doing a good job of serving consumers and a very large increase in those who give the airline industry bad marks, the company said.
NHTSA has opened an investigation of alleged failure of car jacks on certain Ford Motor Co. minivans. The agency is reacting to consumer complaints that the service jacks, used in changing to a spare tire in an emergency situation, can suddenly break, allowing the vehicle to fall and potentially injure users.