07-01-2013, 01:53 PM
You cant do live readings with a multimeter whilst driving lol.........I'd like to see you try! 
How are you gonna have a 'hunch' until youve gained experience though? Hunch's can be dangerous anyway........the mechanics that looked over my Golf told me the dmf had failed as cams never wear out (yes really!)........needless to say I didn't leave it there lol. But those guys have worked there for years, getting all sorts of cars in as its a small independant but never a golf with failed cams...you can't possibly know whats wrong with every different car, or know the common faults on them. Ok for the cams or DMF neither would bring up a fault code (as they did check...because thats the first thing to do with an unknown fault) but say it was a misfire or something, I happen to know part of the injector loom fails on PDs from research and forums, but I wouldn't expect the majority of indepants to know that - yet a quick code read and they'll find the injector circuit broken, then can pinpoint the exact part with a multimeter. At the main dealer you'd obviously expect them to be familiar with cetain issues and get good 'hunch's', just like we would with cars we're familiar with now (306s lol).
Also - we were taught to use bloody multimeters for everything as there was only one code reader to go round lol, and guess which team always finished the job first...yeah the one with the code reader lol. Multimeters waste time unless you know where you're heading first and what readings you're expecting to find. Much easier to read a code in a minute or two, check the code/usual faults for that code on Autodata and then it'll even give you what to check with the multimeter and expected readings. So much simpler than going through guessing things because of a hunch in my opinion.
Aaaaaanyway, what do we reckon the 'state is worth back as standard? 3 months T & T, 121k miles, some SH, recent service. If its not worth much and not worth the hassle I'll probably just trade it in. Depending on what you guys reckon its worth....
How are you gonna have a 'hunch' until youve gained experience though? Hunch's can be dangerous anyway........the mechanics that looked over my Golf told me the dmf had failed as cams never wear out (yes really!)........needless to say I didn't leave it there lol. But those guys have worked there for years, getting all sorts of cars in as its a small independant but never a golf with failed cams...you can't possibly know whats wrong with every different car, or know the common faults on them. Ok for the cams or DMF neither would bring up a fault code (as they did check...because thats the first thing to do with an unknown fault) but say it was a misfire or something, I happen to know part of the injector loom fails on PDs from research and forums, but I wouldn't expect the majority of indepants to know that - yet a quick code read and they'll find the injector circuit broken, then can pinpoint the exact part with a multimeter. At the main dealer you'd obviously expect them to be familiar with cetain issues and get good 'hunch's', just like we would with cars we're familiar with now (306s lol).
Also - we were taught to use bloody multimeters for everything as there was only one code reader to go round lol, and guess which team always finished the job first...yeah the one with the code reader lol. Multimeters waste time unless you know where you're heading first and what readings you're expecting to find. Much easier to read a code in a minute or two, check the code/usual faults for that code on Autodata and then it'll even give you what to check with the multimeter and expected readings. So much simpler than going through guessing things because of a hunch in my opinion.
Aaaaaanyway, what do we reckon the 'state is worth back as standard? 3 months T & T, 121k miles, some SH, recent service. If its not worth much and not worth the hassle I'll probably just trade it in. Depending on what you guys reckon its worth....