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Mechanex Harrogate 2024 preview

|Date: April 30, 2024

Mechanex Harrogate 2024 preview

After a successful show down south at Sandown Park in Surrey last November, we are delighted to be packin ...

After a successful show down south at Sandown Park in Surrey last November, we are delighted to be packing up and heading up North to the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate on the 16th and 17th of Ma ...

April 30, 2024
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Unpacking Key Points from the IAAF Conference

|Date: April 29, 2024

Unpacking Key Points from the IAAF Conference

PMM’s editor Kieran Nee brings you the most important updates from the recent IAAF conference. When I spo ...

PMM’s editor Kieran Nee brings you the most important updates from the recent IAAF conference. When I spoke to GiPA’s Quentin Le Hetet for the PMM Podcast earlier this year, he mentioned, with a certa ...

April 29, 2024
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Leveraging Online Diagnostics Configurators

|Date: April 26, 2024

Leveraging Online Diagnostics Configurators

Delphi shares the details of the launch of its new online diagnostics configurator. To help workshops exp ...

Delphi shares the details of the launch of its new online diagnostics configurator. To help workshops expand their service offering and repair quality, Delphi recently introduced a new online diagnost ...

April 26, 2024
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Apprentice tools and tips

|Date: April 25, 2024

Apprentice tools and tips

Draper Tools is here with some top tool recommendations and some advice from experienced mechanics on wha ...

Draper Tools is here with some top tool recommendations and some advice from experienced mechanics on what they wish they knew as apprentices. Anyone going into the industry should know that they’re d ...

April 25, 2024
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The Benefits of Garage Management Software

|Date: April 24, 2024

The Benefits of Garage Management Software

PMM hears from Meadowfield Autocentre to find out how it has benefitted from using garage management soft ...

PMM hears from Meadowfield Autocentre to find out how it has benefitted from using garage management software Autowork Online. Specialising in providing a comprehensive range of high-quality tyres, ve ...

April 24, 2024
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PMM discusses the state of motor oil in 2024

|Date: April 15, 2024

PMM discusses the state of motor oil in 2024

PMM clears up a thing or five about motor oil. Dipping into the silver tome that is the AA Book of the Ca ...

PMM clears up a thing or five about motor oil. Dipping into the silver tome that is the AA Book of the Car, published in 1976, I find the advice for “choosing the right oil” includes castor oil as a v ...

April 15, 2024
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Thinkcar outlines its remote diagnostics offering

|Date: April 12, 2024

Thinkcar outlines its remote diagnostics offering

Thinkcar is bringing a new approach to remote diagnostics for UK workshops. Access to vehicle manufacture ...

Thinkcar is bringing a new approach to remote diagnostics for UK workshops. Access to vehicle manufacturer level diagnostics has long posed a challenge for independent garages. And yet, ever-advancing ...

April 12, 2024
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Ring outlines areas to upsell

|Date: April 09, 2024

Ring outlines areas to upsell

Ring Automotive encourages readers to look beyond batteries, bulbs and blades when it comes to winter ups ...

Ring Automotive encourages readers to look beyond batteries, bulbs and blades when it comes to winter upselling. Despite rain, wind and generally miserable weather being a given in the UK, it’s common ...

April 09, 2024
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Esprit urges for performance testing on repair kits

|Date: April 08, 2024

Esprit urges for performance testing on repair kits

Victoria Evans, director at Esprit Windscreen Repair Equipment, argues the case for performance testing o ...

Victoria Evans, director at Esprit Windscreen Repair Equipment, argues the case for performance testing on windscreen repair kits. If you’re carrying out windscreen repair at your garage, it’s likely ...

April 08, 2024
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OESAA and Banner explore battery failure

|Date: April 05, 2024

OESAA and Banner explore battery failure

The Original Equipment Suppliers Aftermarket Association, or OESAA for short, is an organisation set up a ...

The Original Equipment Suppliers Aftermarket Association, or OESAA for short, is an organisation set up and run by OE suppliers in order to facilitate better training and education among aftermarket p ...

April 05, 2024
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Philips discusses retrofit LED bulbs

|Date: April 04, 2024

Philips discusses retrofit LED bulbs

PMM editor, Kieran Nee, sat down with Philips Lighting’s UK country manager, Richard Armstrong to chat ab ...

PMM editor, Kieran Nee, sat down with Philips Lighting’s UK country manager, Richard Armstrong to chat about the legal bind the aftermarket has been left in when it comes to retrofit LED bulbs. Hi Ric ...

April 04, 2024
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PMM interviews Chair of the VLS

|Date: April 02, 2024

PMM interviews Chair of the VLS

PMM sat down with Jacquie Berryman, Chair of the Verification of Lubricant Specifications, to catch up on ...

PMM sat down with Jacquie Berryman, Chair of the Verification of Lubricant Specifications, to catch up on her plans for her role as VLS chair and the wider issues VLS will need to address in the comin ...

April 02, 2024
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Mewa discusses re-usable wipes

|Date: March 28, 2024

Mewa discusses re-usable wipes

Günes Yenen, UK managing director of Mewa, explores how re-usable wipes could help garages boost efficie ...

Günes Yenen, UK managing director of Mewa, explores how re-usable wipes could help garages boost efficiency and profitability. In every garage and workshop, the constant goal is to enhance workplace ...

March 28, 2024
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Pico unveils low-resistance testing tool

|Date: March 25, 2024

Pico unveils low-resistance testing tool

Pico Technology charts the rise of the three-phase motor in powering passenger vehicles and how its lates ...

Pico Technology charts the rise of the three-phase motor in powering passenger vehicles and how its latest tool is helping technicians perform more accurate low-resistance testing. Over the last 20-25 ...

March 25, 2024
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Launch Tech UK reveals its EV diagnostics range

|Date: March 22, 2024

Launch Tech UK reveals its EV diagnostics range

Dave Richards, managing director at Launch Tech UK, talks readers through the firm’s EV diagnostics offer ...

Dave Richards, managing director at Launch Tech UK, talks readers through the firm’s EV diagnostics offering. To stay ahead of the curve with the impending petrol and diesel vehicle ban in 2035, garag ...

March 22, 2024
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