Aftermarket June 2022

www.aftermarketonline.net JUNE 2022 AFTERMARKET 3 CONTENTS BUSINESS 10 Big issue: MOT frequency reduction 12 Neil Pattemore: Whatever next? 14 Global aftermarket 16 Tales of the unexpected: Self driving cars 18 You wear it well: Digital transformation 20 Block Exemption: Time to speak up TOP TECHNICIAN/TOP GARAGE 22 Snap-on: Levelling up our industry TECHNICAL 24 Aftermarket of the future 26 Ryan Colley: Software manipulation 28 Frank Massey: Let’s Amarok! 30 Andrew Marsh: Ghost in the shell 31 Big UK Garage and Bodyshop Event Preview 39 Repairify Innovations: Green is good 40 Snap-on: Ride the common rail 42 Kalimex: 2030 – Business as usual IN FOCUS 44 Diagnostic tools 46 Garage management systems 48 Clutch and transmission 50 Lifts and jacks PLUS... 54 General products/Competition 56 On the road: BorgWarner 58 Garage visit: Woodstock Motors 60 EVs and hybrids 62 Training update 64 Recruitment 66 Teabreak MOTORVERSE OF MADNESS Editor | Alex Wells alex@aftermarket.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 370 345 Sales: ryan.fuller@dfamedia.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 370 340 Contributors Jon Arnold | Damien Coleman | Ryan Colley | Andy Hamilton | Vinisha Joshi | Neil Kennett | Andrew Marsh | Frank Massey | Neil Pattemore | Martin Pinnell-Brown Managing Director | Ryan Fuller ryan.fuller@dfamedia.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 370 340 Project Liaison Manager | Emma Floyd emma.floyd@dfamedia.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 370 340 Marketing Executive | Hope Jepson hope.jepson@dfamedia.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 371081 Finance Manager | Caren Brown caren.brown@dfamedia.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 370 340 Chief Executive | Ian Atkinson ian.atkinson@dfamedia.co.uk | +44 (0) 1732 370 340 Published by | DFA Media Ltd 192 High Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1BE Alex Wells, Editor Average net circulation July 2019 to June 2021 18,265 aftermarketmagazine @aftermarket01 @aftermarketmagazine ISSN 2516-9149 Aftermarket is published 10 times a year and is sent free of charge to applicants meeting the publisher’s criteria. All others may subscribe at £60 per anum, £120 Europe and £150 rest of the world. While every care is taken to provide accurate information, the publisher cannot accept responsibility for any errors or ommisions, no matter how caused. All rights reserved. No part of the publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior consent of the publisher. The views of contributors do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher. Copyright: DFA MEDIA LTD 2022. D o you ever feel like you have slipped out of our reality, and into some other universe? About two miles from my house, on the northbound A23 just outside Brighton, some well-meaning government body responsible for road safety has parked up one of those light-up road signs, intended to inform, educate and nag motorists that pass it. Since April it has stood there, unceasingly keeping us all safe by distracting drivers for those few vital seconds at the point the road suddenly bends, just as more cars fly on from an all-but-blind petrol station slip-road. How is this helping? Anyway, each time I see it, I catch it in the corner of my eye. To me, the message reads “SELF DRIVING SAVES LIVES.” Of course, when I recoil and blink, as I do every time, it has already changed to the far less controversial, and frankly redundant “safe driving saves lives.” However, I have accepted the reality of the motoring multiverse, so my question is, will self-driving cars save lives? If you turn to pages 24-25, you can find out more about this in our Aftermarket of the Future section, brought to you by Neil Kennett. We also look at the various levels of autonomy on pages 16-17. Speaking of alternate realities, can you imagine a world where you are not allowed to work on cars under three years old? With the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (MVBER) up for renewal, or not, in 2023, if things go the wrong way, you might find out the hard way. LKQ Euro Car Parts CEO Andy Hamilton has some thoughts on this, which you can find on pages 20-21. VMs are already making it hard for independent garages to work with newer cars within the current regulations, so imagine what they might do if they had no legal constraints. It is in this context that Neil Pattemore returns this month, and muses on whether the cumulative security measures being inflicted on the aftermarket threaten its very existence. You will find that on pages 12-13. The MVBER changed the landscape for the aftermarket in 2003. Just because you have the right to do something, don’t ever assume that right can’t be signed away when you are not paying attention, so let’s get behind the representative associations and make sure we get the framework we need. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance and all that. Moving onto the technical section, Frank Massey is looking at a misbehaving VW Amarok on pages 28-29. Modern vehicles eh? They should have kept that ’52 pick-up. Then, on pages 40-41, Damien Coleman from Snap-on is dealing with a problematic common rail diesel engine. Meanwhile, Ryan Colley is thinking about software manipulation. That is on pages 26-27. We also have a new contributor in the form of Repairify Innovations Director Martin Pinnell-Brown, who in his first article on page 39 is talking about green parts. Elsewhere in the issue, we pop up to North London to get the lowdown on Woodstock Motors, and also have a sit- down with BorgWarner’s Neil Fryer. There are features on diagnostic tools, garage management systems, clutch and transmission and lifts and jacks. Lastly, across pages 31-38 is our special guide to the UK Garage and Bodyshop Event, taking place 8-9 June at the NEC. If you are reading this at the show, look up, you might be about to bump into the Aftermarket team!