OEM Repair Procedures Tucson AZ

Would you construct a new home on a foundation built on a fault line? What about a foundation made from recycled milk cartons or popsicle sticks? If you answered "no" to these questions (and hopefully you did), then ask yourself why a technician would repair a damaged vehicle without first knowing that the frame was structurally sound and in proper alignment?

2/9/2009 3:29:51 PM

Any rookie tech will tell you the frame is the structural foundation of every vehicle. But today more than ever, the frame is also the linchpin that controls and activates a host of electronic and operational  systems that affect not only the vehicle’s driveability but how it will react in a subsequent collision. And how it reacts has a great deal to do with whether occupants walk away with minor scratches after a collision...or whether they walk away at all.  

Space Age Technology

Vehicles today are technological marvels. They’re totally integrated and autonomous packages that include high-tech materials and electronics that would have been viewed as science fiction just a few years ago. Consider that the new Cadillac CTS has no fewer than 21 on-board computers – more than twice the number on the Apollo spacecraft that went to the moon! And all of these 21 systems are linked and constantly communicating with each other to control such vital functions as the powertrain, ABS passenger re-straint systems, door zone modules, electronic suspension, StabiliTrack a...