Autoparts

Here at Autoparts we like to think we're early in the uptake of new and innovative products. In an effort to keep this up we've taken on a new product from a new supplier, The Turbo Clean Set from Innotec Automotive divison.

Innotec are specialists in techno-chemical solutions and manufacture their own products, which, combined with direct feed-back from customers allows them to stay at the forefront of technological advances. Their extensive range of products are of the highest quality.

Turbo Clean Set is a specially designed set to solve problems of diesel engines in a fast and efficient way such as contamination and seizing of the variable geometry of turbos and catalysts caused by carbon residues.

Denso UK call us last week and drop a bomb shell by inviting us to an open day at the Toyota F1 factory... in Cologne. We bit their hand off and are heading out on the first plane Tuesday morning. Tuesday we're flying at 14:00 and staying in Cologne over night, after a few beers we'll be having an early night, as always. Wednesday, we're heading straight to the factory for our super duper tour. If all goes to plan and we're allowed to take cameras in, you'll be able to take a look at what we're upto as we take a look around. Frank, Martin, you both need to be following our progress...

On the 22^nd July, the European Commission has released an important Communication on the expiry of the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (MVBER). The published document accompanied by an Impact Assessment aims at defining policy orientations for the future competition framework for the automotive sector. It intends to address issues such as independent garages' access to technical data, access to spare parts and access to VM authorised repairs. It will also tackle the misuse of warranties aim at excluding independents. The deadling for responding to the report is September 25th 2009.

We need you! APSW have launched their new automotive community forums, Pro Mechanic - www.promechanic.co.uk  

Having seen our training courses bring fellow garage owners together, we thought it would be a great idea to continue that community. At every course we've run so far one of the most obvious benefits other than the learning is sharing information with other garage owners. Week in week out we've seen the guys on the course come to the class with issues, have suggestions made to them and take the rest of the week to trial the suggestions. The following week we hear the results, 9 times out of 10 the issues we resolved. At the end of every course at APSW we've always felt it was a shame to have the end the "technical forum" and so here we are with Pro Mechanic.