15-10-2022

Is Jaltest diagnostics a good investment?

Karol Filarski, Dział Wyposażenia Warsztatów

Surely you have asked yourself at least once the question: is the purchase of Jaltest diagnostics an investment for me or just an additional cost? We will try to show in a few points that the equipment from the Spanish company Cojali is well invested funds.

Very wide coverage of the models of diagnosed vehicles.

Jaltest is able to deal with vehicle models from those produced in the 80s or up to the latest. In principle, it will serve every truck of a major manufacturer, e.g. Mercedes MP5, DAF XF E6 or Iveco T-Way (but also X and S). These are cars that appeared on the market literally two or three years ago.

At the moment you are reading this article, Jaltest allows its users to diagnose 213 different makes of vehicles from the following areas:

commercial vehicles, i.e. buses, vans, trucks, semi-trailers / trailers;
construction vehicles;
agricultural vehicles;
lifts (basket, telescopic, forklifts);
floating equipment (water scooters, motor engines, stationary engines).

Which gives a total of 5,966 different models that you can diagnose with one device. And that number keeps growing.

What else can the Jaltest diagnostic device do?

The purchase of this device gives garage employees the opportunity to carry out numerous calibration, adjustment and parameterization procedures, which will undoubtedly help in the precise determination of problems with the diagnosed vehicle. The many possibilities offered by Jaltest include:

deleting reviews,
calibration of clutches and gearboxes,
adaptations of components after replacement (accelerator pedals, NOX sensors, VGT turbines, injectors and many others),
changes in braking forces in semi-trailers/trailers and changes in the behavior of the lifting axle,
DPF regeneration and programming after filter replacement,
comprehensive diagnosis and testing of the AdBlue system,
taking the vehicle out of emergency modes and limiting power and speed.

In addition, along with the device you get access to probably the richest technical bulletin on the market, which includes:

vehicle technical data,
electrical diagrams (not only of the ECU system, but also of the entire vehicle),
information about components related to individual systems,
diagnostics by symptoms, leading the mechanic step by step through the repair.

The essence of such an extensive technical database is that the user, when a fault occurs, receives the most complete additional information about the damaged component (i.e. where it is located, what it looks like, written out electrical pins, electrical diagram, etc.), which will undoubtedly make repair work much easier. .

In addition, Jaltest has a built-in GRP (Garage Resource Planning) module that facilitates workshop management, thanks to which you can e.g. keep a history of vehicle repairs and assign it to a specific registration or customer, prepare service orders along with repair times, but also set notifications about planned inspections and services in the future.

Why in Autos?

An undoubted advantage of purchasing Jaltest diagnostics is also access to the latest knowledge and training. By choosing Autos as your supplier, you can count on:

pre-purchase presentation of the device on your fleet – after all, no one likes to buy a cat in a poke!
start-up and operation training;
devices at home in the workshop;
devices at home in the workshop;
regular – free training in the field of e.g. pneumatics, exhaust gas treatment, fuel systems, gearboxes;
telephone technical or online support, and if necessary at your workshop;
a replacement device in the event of failure or damage to your tester.

Our experience suggests that customers have the most questions after the purchase, when they encounter the first more difficult cases. You can always count on the support of Autos specialists at such a time.

Everyone should answer the question asked at the beginning of this text for themselves. However, in our opinion, the above arguments definitely indicate that investing in the aforementioned diagnostic tester is definitely a good idea. It will improve the work of the workshop, but also speed up and expand the range of possible repairs.