Vehicle Inspections
During a routine inspection, the technician checks whether the vehicle can remain stationary when parked on an incline.
What is the parking brake?
This tool can be used to check the antifreeze protection level of engine coolant.
What is a hydrometer?
This component removes dirt and debris from the air entering the engine.
What is the air filter?
These are two things a technician should look for when inspecting the transmission area underneath a vehicle.
What are fluid leaks and loose mounting bolts?
A vehicle is being prepared for winter service. The technician checks a fluid whose job includes keeping the windshield-washing system usable in freezing conditions.
What is windshield washer fluid?
A customer is considering buying a used vehicle and wants an independent assessment of its current condition.
What is a pre-purchase inspection?
This condition can cause serious engine damage if there isn't enough oil available to lubricate the engine.
What is a low oil level?
This is the typical shape of the air cleaner box on a multiport fuel-injected vehicle.
What is rectangular?
Suspension bushings, shock absorbers, and brake hoses and lines are inspected in this general area of the vehicle.
What is the steering/suspension area?
A technician asks another person to stand behind the vehicle while different functions are activated. The second person is primarily helping verify these components.
What are the exterior lights?
A technician connects a scan tool during an inspection and finds several stored diagnostic trouble codes. Before clearing anything, the technician should do this.
What is document/investigate the codes before clearing them?
A customer says, "I checked the oil and it's above the full mark, so that's actually better, right?" The technician should explain why this isn't necessarily true.
What is overfilling can damage the engine?
This simple inspection method can help determine whether an air filter element is still serviceable.
What is holding the filter up to a light and looking through it?
This fluid is usually brown or black, slippery, somewhat thick, and has an oily smell.
What is engine oil?
During an inspection, a technician notices that a windshield wiper blade has become stiff and torn. Based on its condition, this component should be replaced.
What is the wiper blade?
A shop wants its inspection reports to be easier to read, store, and share with customers while reducing paperwork. This method of documenting inspections would accomplish that.
What is an electronic inspection form?
This fluid is typically red in color when found in an automatic transmission.
What is automatic transmission fluid?
This simple technique can help identify a drive belt that is causing a squealing noise.
What is squirting water onto the belt?
This is where the vehicle manufacturer's recommended tire pressure is typically listed.
What is the driver's-side door pillar/door placard?
A technician wants to inspect the windshield and wipers but doesn't want to risk damaging the glass or rubber. This condition should be avoided when operating the wipers.
What is operating them on a dry windshield?
A customer asks whether a vehicle has passed the state's required safety requirements. The technician would need to determine whether the vehicle meets this type of inspection requirement.
What is a state safety inspection?
This type of fluid absorbs water from the atmosphere and may need to be changed periodically.
What is brake fluid?
This type of belt is designed to maintain the proper amount of tension throughout its useful life.
What is a stretch-fit belt?
When inspecting the transmission area underneath a vehicle, this internal component is not something a technician can normally inspect directly from underneath.
What are internal linkages?
A wiper blade that has lost this physical characteristic may no longer make proper contact with the windshield.
What is flexibility?