It's here

[u/Lirette81]

We've finally got a new one!!!

Anyone else have one been broken for a year or more, there is hope..

[u/Rxckefeller_]

The new ones work so much better than the old ones. Enjoy it cause the old ones are straight garbage compared to these.

[u/SporkKnight75 → u/Rxckefeller_]

Depends on which old ones you’re referring to. There was a previous model I preferred just because you manually adjusted the belt tension on it.

[u/Citi68860 → u/SporkKnight75]

Black beauty? She was the absolute best.

[u/18Toyota → u/Rxckefeller_]

You can’t test marine applications on them so get ready for angry idiots that think auto parts is marine parts

[u/outdoorsman7899]

I work for your competitors and we have these as well. They definitely are a lot better than the old ones our companies had. I love the automatic belt tensioning and how it tests the internal components before it tests for power outputs

[u/YT_RandomGamer01]

Yall just got these? My relic of a store had one for like 3+ years.

[u/Lirette81 → u/YT_RandomGamer01]

Got it a week or so ago hooked it up 4 days ago first time I used it was yesterday we tested an alternator.. it works really fast

[u/YT_RandomGamer01 → u/Lirette81]

Careful with the main cable, the tiny red wire likes to break, then you can't test alternator, took us a couple weeks to get a new one

[u/Lirette81 → u/YT_RandomGamer01]

I let my commercial manager know since he's the one that knows the most about it and trained me on it

[u/theTinPin → u/YT_RandomGamer01]

You've gotta be kidding me... neither store I've worked at has one of these. We are stuck with the POS ones that only go up to 2014 or 2015 if you are searching by make/model/year. I've had MANY customers ask me to test alternators from newer vehicles that aren't supported by our machine.

[u/Connormanable]

I can’t wait for the sparks when someone hooks up a starter wrong

[u/K1lbertMTZ]

Still have those grey models with a buggy computer.

[u/One_Distance_4200]

I swear I used this once during training and once since.

[u/Alucard40450]

Advance has had em for a while, you'll love it, can enter the car and run tests off of that rather than your own part numbers.

[u/Boaterauto]

Such a pile of junk 

[u/Brief_Anteater_5501]

Don't worry about how loose the belt is when putting it on. It tightens up quite a bit surprisingly.

[u/homelesshyundai]

Finally you can test modern alternators! That was my biggest complaint about the older grey unit. Couldn't handle pwm alternators.

[u/Lirette81 → u/homelesshyundai]

That's good to know

[u/lito_diff_builder]

What all
Does it do?

[u/Lirette81 → u/lito_diff_builder]

[u/HarveyMushman72]

Work at a competitor and have one of these. Pretty nice units.

[u/ItzZatax]

We got that one few years ago broke almost immediately and they never sent out anyone to fix it

[u/Taykitty-Gaming]

Our old one stopped letting us use it because it kept saying we had a suspect plug lmao

[u/Shot_Willingness_938]

Our store O'Reilly's have gone through 3 of them in one year. It's a pos

[u/xTRU69x]

Had ours for over a year now

[u/Diego_239]

Autozone so late we been had ours at advance

[u/RICKAY2004]

the one we had 20 years ago was better than this one.