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Citroen Fuel Pressure Sensor

January 13, 2020

On Friday we visited a customer in Bury St Edmunds who had visited a number of local garages that were unable to accurately diagnose Limp mode and cutting out of the 2.2 HDI engine found in the Citroen relay and Peugeot boxer engines. Within an hour of arrival we ran a diagnostic test to find …

Mercedes SCR / Adblue Fault

January 11, 2020January 11, 2020

Mercedes AdBlue Problems – Background AdBlue is another name for Diesel Exhaust Fluid or DEF. This solution of urea in water is fed into exhaust gases as a part of the exhaust treatment system called selective catalytic reduction or SCR. This process transforms up to 90% of the harmful nitrogen oxides made by the vehicle …

Ford Crash Data – Ford IDS

January 11, 2020

Ford crash data & Airbag deployment reset using ford IDS. We are regularly called upon by local bodyshops to perform resets on crash data including th reset and coding of air bags and airbag control units. Using IDS to perform a crash data reset is relatively straight forward some models can take time to complete …

Fiesta 2014 Mileage Correction

December 17, 2021January 10, 2020

Mileage correction on the MK7 fiesta (2014). The fiesta is one of the fastest dashboards to re calibrate. Weather you dashboard has been replaced through damage or the ECU is damaged we are able to perform mileage correction. We are based in Saxmundham, Suffolk but we are able to provide a fully mobile service throughout …

Mercedes Battery / Starting Issues

January 9, 2020

Recently we have seen a number of Mercedes from the CLA, E Class and A Class models suffering with the battery warning message and failing to start. One of the vehicles indeed had flat or low voltage supplied by the battery but the other two had low voltage error store in the ecu but did …

BMW Diagnostics using ISTA + | Lowestoft, Suffolk

January 8, 2020

Today we visited Lowestoft in Suffolk to take a look at a BMW 1 Series with BMW OEM Diagnostics (ISTA+). After visiting a local garage the customer was left a little confused after being told “we cannot clear the fault code” we had been instructed by the customer to simply diagnose and read the engine …

Volkswagen, Audi, VAG Group Feature coding

January 7, 2020

We often get asked what can we code and programme in terms of VAG Group OEM features. So we put a small list together of the common factory settings / activations we perform regularly. Of course there are many more options and activation’s available this is just a list of basic common features. MMI & …

Reviewed – The Diagnostic Specialist in Suffolk

January 7, 2020

Until now we haven’t really focused getting reviews but if you have previously used any of our services from OEM diagnostics, coding to programming please feel free to leave us a review on social media or on Google. Your reviews really matter to us and apart for making us happy it really helps us in …

Mercedes Star Commercial Diagnostics – Star & Xentry

January 7, 2020

Mercedes specialist diagnostics in Suffolk for mercedes commercial vehicles. Gel automotive are fully equipped with DAS, Xentry & Star providing OEM diagnostics as your main dealer would. Although we are based in Suffolk our mobile service does cover Essex and Norfolk too.

We have the latest Mercedes update currently Dec 2019 this is the very latest version available at your dealer, We are able to bring this service right to your door or you can visit us in Suffolk for the exact same service as your Mercedes main dealer for significantly less cost than the Mercedes labour rate.

Chech out the video below showing Xentry in action with the latest commercial vehicles available.

BMW E90 320D 4D4A Fault – DPF

January 6, 2020

Today we visited a customer in Saxmundham, Suffolk who had some DPF problems. The BMW DPf system holds on to 4D4A fault code even after deleting the code, The customer had used a number of OBD faut code readers to delete the code but it kept coming straight back. BMW ISTA + is the only …