CartWelcome to the automotive tutorials section. Here you will find tutorials designed to help increase your understanding of the electrical and electronic systems in modern motor vehicles.
NEW Automotive Diagnostics Videos NEW
Watch automotive diagnostics videos – including the automotive oscilloscope guide – in our new multimedia tutorials section.
Free to watch, these video tutorials are an invaluable training resource that demonstrates how PicoScope and the Automotive Diagnostics Kit can be used to find a variety of vehicle faults.
Engine Management Tutorials
These tutorials explain the operation of various systems and components, and how you can use an automotive oscilloscope to check that they are operating correctly.
- Tutorial 1: Ignition primary circuits
- Tutorial 2: Trigger signals (part 1)
- Tutorial 3: Trigger signals (part 2)
- Tutorial 4: Trigger signals (part 3)
- Tutorial 5: Primary versus secondary circuits
- Tutorial 6: Electronic fuel injection (part 1)
- Tutorial 7: Electronic fuel injection (part 2)
- Tutorial 8: Electronic fuel injection (part 3)
- Tutorial 9: Emissions related components and actuators
- Tutorial 10: Miscellaneous sensors and actuators waveforms
Real-Life Diagnostics
In this series professional motor mechanic Nick Hibberd gives you his real-life experience of diagnosing faults. Fault-finding procedures, detailed explanations of components and systems, and high-performance automobiles make this high-octane tutorial series a must read.
- Real-Life 1: Ferrari 360 with intermittent non-start
- Real-Life 2: Lotus Elise II: High idle speed and cutting out
- Real-Life 3: Troubleshooting a knock sensor
- Real-Life 4: Misfire most severe
- Real-Life 5: Diagnosing ABS
- Real-Life 6: One bit at a time
- Real-Life 7: Diagnosing poor interior temperature control
- Real-Life 8: Is it possible to determine the fault just by the vehicle owner?
- Real-Life 9: Double trouble...
- Real-Life 10: BMW X5 misfire
- Real-Life 11: Diagnosing a no-start problem on a SEAT Arosa
- Real-Life 12: Batch no. F R I D A Y / A F T E R N O O N
Everyday Diagnostics
In this series you tell us how you’ve used a PicoScope automotive oscilloscope to diagnose vehicle faults in your everyday life. Everyday diagnostics — anything but everyday faults.
If you have any requests for future tutorials or would like to contribute a tutorial please contact us.
- Everyday 1: Audi S2 intermittent and progressive failure to start
- Everyday 2: Timing issues – misleading MIL?
- Everyday 3: Got me under pressure
- Everyday 4: BMW braking issues
- Everyday 5: Direct injection — poor performance
- Everyday 6: Toyota Avensis — system too lean
- Everyday 7: Ford Focus hard starting
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Auto-Solve Diagnostic Assistance CD-ROM
The Auto-Solve Diagnostic Assistance CD-ROM provides help on a wide range of topics and vehicle problems — virtually all that you are likely to encounter, together with with diagnostic flowcharts and an extensive waveform library to assist in fault diagnosis and problem solving.
With over 180 web pages and over 320 technical illustrations the Auto-Solve Diagnostic Assistance CD-ROM is the ideal companion to the Automotive Diagnostics Kit.
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