Diagnostic Testing and Your European Car

If you want to keep your European car running in the best condition possible for as long as possible, diagnostic testing is your friend. Here’s what SimplyEuro Automotive Repair wants you to know about diagnostic testing and your car.

How Does Diagnostic Testing Work?

Diagnostic testing sounds really complicated, but it truly isn’t. An experienced technician connects a reader device to your car’s onboard computer. The computer transfers data to the reading device and the diagnostic tool presents that information to the technician. There’s still some interpreting to be done, so it isn’t a magic solution as soon as the diagnostic device is connected.

Your Car Only Has a Few Ways to Communicate

The reality is that your car only has a few ways to let you know something is going on. There are performance issues, but some of those can mean various things. Issues like decreasing gas mileage can be caused by a variety of problems, for instance. Your car also has dashboard warning lights that let you know when something is wrong, but you also need help interpreting those.

Diagnostic Testing Saves Time

Diagnostic testing saves both you and auto technicians a great deal of time as well as trial and error. In the past, an auto shop might have had to hang onto your European car for a while to test out various issues. The advent of diagnostic testing means that those options are narrowed down quite a bit and the technician can find and resolve problems a lot more quickly.

Routine Diagnostics Prevent Problems

It’s even better if you opt for routine diagnostic testing at least once a year. There are some problems that are small, but which can get worse over time. Those issues might not be severe enough to turn on a dashboard warning light, but it would still be great to correct the problem when it’s really small. Diagnostic testing that is done on a regular basis can help a technician to spot those issues and take care of them right then.

Want to make sure that your European car is running perfectly? Or are you seeing dashboard warning lights that don’t make sense at all? Give us a call at SimplyEuro Automotive Repair in Castle Pines, CO. We’ll set up an appointment for your diagnostic testing and get you the answers that you need about what’s going on in your European car’s engine.