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    Varta offers winter battery advice

    Varta is recommending technicians replace customer batteries with a like-for-like product this winter. As ...

    Varta is recommending technicians replace customer batteries with a like-for-like product this winter. As the winter months draw in and the cost-of-living crisis in the UK continues due to soaring ene ...

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    Replacing batteries on modern vehicles

    Banner Batteries is hoping to provide technicians with the information and confidence necessary to succes ...

    Banner Batteries is hoping to provide technicians with the information and confidence necessary to successfully replace the beating heart of a car – the battery. While some people look after their hea ...

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    Product Test: Traction Charger MPL50-Li

    Tony Powell AEE MIMI, owner of A P Autodiagnostics has spent a month with Traction Charger’s MPL50-Li. He ...

    Tony Powell AEE MIMI, owner of A P Autodiagnostics has spent a month with Traction Charger’s MPL50-Li. Here’s how he got on. On first opening the box and on first sight of this charger my expectations ...

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    Autoelectro offers ignition advice

    Autoelectro’s UK sales manager Nick Hood offers his advice to technicians diagnosing and replacing igniti ...

    Autoelectro’s UK sales manager Nick Hood offers his advice to technicians diagnosing and replacing ignition parts. Technicians faced with replacing alternators should be wary of delicate data connecti ...

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    Valeo outlines battery challenges

    Valeo outlines the challenges facing batteries and alternators in modern passenger vehicles and what the ...

    Valeo outlines the challenges facing batteries and alternators in modern passenger vehicles and what the company is doing to meet those needs. As vehicles are becoming increasingly complex and additio ...

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    AS-PL investigates starter faults

    AS-PL investigates some common issues surrounding starters. The starter does not stop turning The most co ...

    AS-PL investigates some common issues surrounding starters. The starter does not stop turning The most common starters used in vehicles with internal combustion engines are electric starters. These ca ...

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    NGK outlines spark plug issues

    Spark plug specialist NGK offers the PMM audience its advice on the most common spark plug issues. UK wor ...

    Spark plug specialist NGK offers the PMM audience its advice on the most common spark plug issues. UK workshops carrying out service and MOT work on their customers’ cars need ignition components they ...

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    Lithium Ion and Lithium Iron differences

    Traction Charger outlines the key differences between the similarly named Lithium Ion and Lithium Iron ba ...

    Traction Charger outlines the key differences between the similarly named Lithium Ion and Lithium Iron batteries. Despite having similar names these are actually two different types of battery, used f ...

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    Different battery types and how to care for them

    Ken Clark, Managing Director of Rotronics, has provided a whistle-stop tour of the different types of bat ...

    Ken Clark, Managing Director of Rotronics, has provided a whistle-stop tour of the different types of battery available on the market and how to care for each of them. With the cost of living rising a ...

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    Common causes of alternator noise

    Electrical components supplier AS-PL discusses some common causes of excessive alternator noise, includin ...

    Electrical components supplier AS-PL discusses some common causes of excessive alternator noise, including both electrical and mechanical faults. The alternator is the source of electricity in motor v ...

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    The future of battery testing

    Rotronics’ Managing Director Ken Clark takes a look at battery testing in the workshops of tomorrow. Futu ...

    Rotronics’ Managing Director Ken Clark takes a look at battery testing in the workshops of tomorrow. Futureproofing technology in a modern workshop is essential, and that is just as important when loo ...

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    How to fix a flat battery on a Range Rover Evoque

    PMM troubleshooter Andy Horwat tackles a Range Rover Evoque whose battery issues are causing its owner co ...

    PMM troubleshooter Andy Horwat tackles a Range Rover Evoque whose battery issues are causing its owner considerable stress. Vehicle Information Make: Land Rover Model: Range Rover Evoque Engine: 2.2l ...

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    CTEK outlines PRO120

    Battery chargers are a feature in every workshop. Here, we take a look at an offering from CTEK – the PRO ...

    Battery chargers are a feature in every workshop. Here, we take a look at an offering from CTEK – the PRO120. The PRO120 from CTEK is a 12 V, 120 A battery charger and power supply, designed to meet t ...

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    How to reduce the risk of battery failure

    Rotronics outlines some of the steps independent workshops need to take to reduce battery failure in cust ...

    Rotronics outlines some of the steps independent workshops need to take to reduce battery failure in customers’ vehicles. With nearly 4.5 million independent battery tests in the bag via their custome ...

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    The evolving relationships of parts

    Autoelectro UK’s Sales Manager Nick Hood outlines the evolving partnership between battery, starter motor ...

    Autoelectro UK’s Sales Manager Nick Hood outlines the evolving partnership between battery, starter motor and alternator. The relationship between the vehicle battery, starter motor and alternator is ...

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