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traditional sound German engineering.

THE INCREASING complexity of modern
automobiles make the need for top-grade servic-
ing more necessary than ever.

And when that. areas— and computers,
automobile is one in’ the The biggest change in re-
Prestigious BMW line of  cemt years with BMW and
touring cars, the car owner others has been the incor-
looks for the best. poration of micro-electronics

and microprocessors to bet-

A took inside the service ter control autamotive per-
bays of Parkshore Motors, formance.
at 108 Bowser Avenue, With sophisticated  elec-
shows how far automobiles tronics replacing much of
—~ and the service industry what was once familiar
NEWS photo lan Smith ==. has come. The old under the hood of the car,
THE UNDER-THE-HOOD confusion of today’s cars holds ‘grease pit’? imaye of the the demands on service per-
no terror for Horst Duess, service manager at Parkshore  typiga} garage fas been sonnel have also grown rap-
Motors. replaced by brightly-lit work idly over the past several

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THE SWEET sound of success, in this case, is Bitter. That's the tradename for this stylish West German touring car that
is slowly making its impact on the Juxury market — at $70,000 apiece. The rather unique name comes from the car's de-
signer and builder, Erich Bitter, a 51-year-old German with an eye for style that favors the sleek line of the Ferrari and

years,

BMW has aided that cause
through the introduction of
such devices as the Service
Test and through continuing
development of self-
diagnostic systems, expected
in new models next year.

The Service Test is the
faiest generation of the
automotive analysts
machines that began show-
ing up in garages 20 years
ago. It not only ‘‘reads** the
cats performance but allows
for operator guidance that
ensure that data provided is
correctiy assessed and
evaluated.

The Service Test reads the

Micro-electronics
enters the BMW

full range of engine perfor-
mance to permit accurate
comparisons between actual
performance indicators and
target fevels and prints out a
written summary of the ac-
tual levels.

Working from that, and
working in a logical se-
quence, the serviceman can
trace trouble to the source
and ensure that the potential
for trauble does not develop.

The development of such
equipment and procedures as
the Service Test, in response
to the growing sophistication
of the BMW, ensures that
owner satisfaction remains
high,