VIDEO: Using a Community to Confirm a Diagnosis

VIDEO: Using a Community to Confirm a Diagnosis

Diagnostic community help can be a great tool in your shop.This video is sponsored by Mitchell 1.

Having a fellow technician help you think through a diagnosis of a vehicle can be invaluable. But, what if you can’t find one at your shop? Some service information databases have developed communities of technicians to help you with a fix. Inside these communities are confirmed repairs and diagnostic from previous threads and you can start a new thread on your problem.

In this video, Andrew Markel covers how he used a community to confirm an inoperative A/C Compressor.

This video is sponsored by Mitchell 1.

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