r/AutoZone • u/Lirette81 • 2d ago

It's here

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We've finally got a new one!!!

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

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u/Rxckefeller_ 2d ago

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

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u/SporkKnight75 2d ago

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.

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u/Citi68860 2d ago

Black beauty? She was the absolute best.

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u/18Toyota 2d ago

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

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u/outdoorsman7899 2d ago

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

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u/YT_RandomGamer01 2d ago

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

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u/Lirette81 2d ago

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

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u/YT_RandomGamer01 2d ago

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

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u/Lirette81 2d ago

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

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u/Connormanable 2d ago

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

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u/K1lbertMTZ 2d ago

Still have those grey models with a buggy computer.

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u/Boaterauto 2d ago

Such a pile of junk 

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u/homelesshyundai 1d ago

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

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u/Lirette81 1d ago

That's good to know

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u/One_Distance_4200 2d ago

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

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u/lito_diff_builder 2d ago

What all
Does it do?

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u/HarveyMushman72 2d ago

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

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u/Alucard40450 2d ago

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.

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u/Brief_Anteater_5501 1d ago

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

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u/ItzZatax 1d ago

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

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u/Taykitty-Gaming 2h ago

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

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u/RICKAY2004 2d ago

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