Air Repair: August 2007

              Stay tuned for our new
website—launching later this year!
Ken Beauvais (right) welcomes Ken Zanders (left) to the Air
Team. Zanders is our newest Outreach Trainer and conducts
seminars on Advanced Evaporative Repair Techniques.
days of city and highway driving would
set monitors. While that is true in some
cases, there are exceptions. Experience
has shown that inexperienced drivers
(including consumers) should not
attempt to perform drive cycles. They
were designed to be monitored and
evaluated in a compressed time and
distance pattern by a technician that
has the correct enabling criteria and a
scan tool attached to the vehicle. We
think you will find that the seminars
will help you set readiness after you
diagnose and repair the problem.
Setting monitors is an important part
of the repair process. The Illinois EPA
Volume 10 ■ Number 3
August 2007
Help is Available for Monitor Rejects
It has been said that experience is
a hard lesson, because we get the
test fi rst and the lesson afterwards. Set t ing on boa rd diagnost ic
(OBD) readiness monitors has been
challenging—even for seasoned
technicians. I’m sure many of you can
share experiences where there was a
loss of hair, nerves or sleep because of
diffi culty getting a particular vehicle
to set to read. Whether it was fi nding
the correct drive cycle or fixing the
problem that prevented the monitors
from setting to ready, it has become
quite apparent just how important it
is to have the resources and training
needed to tackle readiness monitors.
Statistics show that the reject rate
for monitors exceeds the OBD fail
rate. This is a signifi cant problem, and
therefore, we designed the 2007 seminar
schedule to focus on issues related
to readiness and monitors. Our three
trainers have done extensive research to
be able to present meaningful seminars
this year that help you understand and
set readiness monitors.
For years, it was thought that several
i s consider ing
factor ing retest
readi ness i nto
s h o p s’ r e p a i r
e f f e c t ive n e s s
index (REI). The
goal is to help
consumers select
a repair shop that
c a n d i a g n o s e
and repair their
vehicle and insure
that it is ready to
be t ested. REI
c r e d i t wo u l d
only be given for
repairs that result
i n set t i ng t he
required monitors
and passing t he
retest. This change
in calculating REIs
would ensure that
vehicles are truly fi xed, since achieving
readiness is a clear indication of
effective repairs.
Outreach seminars focus on ways
to quickly and effi ciently set readiness
monitors, take control of the vehicle
and retest the vehicle. This generally
resul t s i n i ncreased customer
satisfaction, fewer comebacks for
codes generated as a result of monitors
setting after the vehicle is returned
to the customer, and cleaner air for
everyone! Register today for the
FREE training seminars by calling
847-758-3434.
Ken Beauvais, Editor
CONTENTS
■ Help is available for
Monitor Rejects
■ 2007 Outreach Seminar
Schedule
■ E-85 & OBD II: What’s Fueling
an Incomplete Monitor?
■ I Get By With a Little Help
from My Friends
(That’s What Friends Are For)