Ed Cockill from Uckfield Motor Services reviewed the Kane Five Gas Analyser for the PMM Youtube channel.
Fault diagnosis
1. We’ve got a Mini in with a misfire problem. Let’s start by plugging the probe into the exhaust and turning the engine on.
2. You can hear it audibly misfiring. Let’s check the live data coming through onto the machine.
3. Immediately the hydrocarbons have shot up and the CO level is very high, which says to me straight away that it’s running rich. This indicates there’s an ignition problem of some kind.
4. After a bit of testing under the bonnet, we found that the coil pack on cylinder one was faulty, I’ve swapped in a good one and the car now sounds a lot better.
5. Let’s double check now with the emissions analyser. This time, I’ll check the live readings through the mobile app, so I don’t need to be close to the exhaust.
6. I can see now everything is back within the parameters they’re meant to be in. YouTube
Verdict
There’s no other machine that does aircon on the market and it also does fan speed and humidity, so that’s great. What’s good about this machine is that all within one system you can see lots of readings at the same time. It can really help with aircon diagnosis, especially if you’ve got something like a blockage or a weak compressor or something along those lines that you’re struggling to diagnose.
