THIS month’s MACS Service Report highlights the importance of understanding Ohm’s Law when tackling electrical diagnostics and discusses when it is appropriate to bin the textbook in favour of a combining your technical experience and intuition to find and fix electrical faults. Just as an inexperienced skier is unlikely to survive an off-piste adventure without … Continue reading The ‘freestyle diagnostics’ Ohm page
THIS video clip demonstrating the potential danger of using highly flammable hydrocarbon refrigerant in the air conditioning system of a family sedan was conducted in Sydney Australia in 1995, but its findings are as relevant today as they ever were. Would you put your family in a car with an AC system that had been … Continue reading Video: Hydrocarbon refrigerant flammability test archive footage
TAFE Queensland SkillsTech was the first in the Sunshine State to kit out a fleet of vans that can deliver automotive apprentice training and assessment on-site at their workplace with minimal disruption to their employer and colleagues. Each of the three vans is equipped for a different qualification with a workbench, desk, awning, tool kit … Continue reading Van delivers improved apprentice outcomes
VASA Vice President Brett Meads delivered a presentation about R1234yf at Bracken Ridge TAFE in Brisbane, providing the automotive industry audience of employers and suppliers with in-depth information and context to help prepare them for the transition to this new refrigerant. At the Automotive Industry Breakfast event on September 28, Brett condensed much of the … Continue reading VASA builds TAFE links with R1234yf talk
THIS month’s MACS Service Report covers the upcoming changes and challenges with access to vehicle diagnostics through the trusty OBD port. Forewarned is forearmed, so make sure you download the report from the members section of the VASA website. Continue reading OBD port revolution coming
VASA will be among more than 300 exhibitors already confirmed for the next Australian Auto Aftermarket Expo, which will be held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 6-8 April 2017. By early October the Expo had already sold out almost 90 per cent of its floor space, including to long-standing major naming rights … Continue reading VASA confirms return to Aftermarket Expo
ALMOST 200 countries forged a historic agreement to phase down HFCs, such as R134a, under the Montreal Protocol at the weekend. The deal was stuck on the sixth day of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, held in Kigali, the capital of East African … Continue reading Global HFC phase-down under Montreal Protocol agreed in Kigali
VASA’s recent trip to Frankfurt, Germany took in the massive Automechanika trade show, followed by a meeting of our continental affiliates MACPartners Europe (also attended by representatives from our North American counterparts MACS Worldwide) and the fascinating European Automotive Air-Conditionng Convention. The mission of VASA President Ian Stangroome and Executive Director of Communications and Editorial … Continue reading Video: VASA visits Automechanika, European Automotive Air-Conditioning Convention in Frankfurt
IT HAS taken 77 years of automotive air-conditioning development for someone to figure out that it might be possible to put the condensation dripping from a car’s evaporator to good use. That person was Ford powertrain controls engineer Doug Martin and colleague John Rollinger, who connected a reservoir, water filter and pump to the condensate … Continue reading Video: Ford’s evap tap
VASA member Recarc Electronics has landed a $2.5 million Next Generation Manufacturing Investment Programme grant from the Australian Federal Government, which will help the South Australian company almost double its workforce over the next four years. A major redevelopment and 2000 square-metre expansion of Redarc’s Lonsdale manufacturing facility is expected to create around 100 new … Continue reading Redarc grant to build exports, jobs
