trading standards

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:16 pm

had a visit yesterday off trading standards along with 2 gentlemen from auto diagnose, it seems there are a lot of copys of the disc being offered for sale locally and they wanted to know what i was using. at £850 a year for a genuine disc or £30- £40 a lifetime for a copy its easy to see why the copys are selling like hot cakes and throwing a spanner in the works for auto diagnose but be warned if anybody out there is using a copy and you get caught the jobby WILL hit the fan.
they may be in my area now but they might be in your area next.

Post by **Merlin** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:26 pm

tramroadmotors wrote:they wanted to know what i was using

A real copy I take it?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:38 pm

not a copy disc i can assure you. the book is only £50 and none of the books /discs give you a time for welding a rusty floorpan in a mk2 escort or fitting a weld in cage to a honda civic which is the type of things most of my work consists of.

Crazy_C · Post by **Crazy_C** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 8:39 pm

Damn, £30 is expensive!! I've been offered it for £15!

Post by **Ammo** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:21 pm

What it is auto diagnose?

Crazy_C · Post by **Crazy_C** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:24 pm

It's a massively overpriced piece of software for mechanics that gives them all the information about car specs and information.

Personally, for a system like that, I prefer Alldata.

Essentially though Ammo, it's like Google searching "how do I do .... on .... car?"

taz8520 · Post by **taz8520** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:26 pm

I know a few people round my way that use copy autodata, me included lol

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 8:43 am

it gives you repair times for jobs, service schedules, timing belt intervals, known faults etc

this http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUTODATA-CD3- ... 3356c2569f

Post by **Lude-dude** » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:11 pm

found that autodata not to be that great

for prelude's anyway