Smoke Machine Testimonials

“I have recently purchased a Smoke-Pro (Total-Tech) and have used it for a couple of months now. I have tried many different types of smoke detection devices and hands down your product has, in my opinion, become the holy grail of leak detection equipment.

So far I have found many EVAP leaks and the diagnostic time has been cut down by at least 2/3. Recently we performed over $1200.00 worth of repairs on a 1999 Ford Expedition with 180k miles. I brought the long term fuel trims down from 13 at idle to 2. This car had a leaking EGR, leaking throttle shaft, and a leak at the lower intake plenum. Also we found a leak in the PCV line where a crack was found under the foam insulation. This would have been impossible to see with out the thick smoke. It took me about 10 minutes to have this vehicle hooked up.

I am a full time automotive technician that see's the potential of profit and helping my fellow tech's gain access to this incredible device.

About the oil, I went to my Walgreens and purchased a big 20 OZ bottle of baby oil for $3.00. This will last us a long time and is a big plus.

Thank you"

“I have been fixing cars for along time and wish I had discovered the Smoke Pro before. The way cars are made today make smoke machines mandatory. There is not one tool that can pay for itself faster or make more money for our business. Six days after trying one of these we purchased six more for our other stores.

Fords in particular come in with lean conditions quite often. The biggest Failure codes are PO 174 and PO 171. Every car that has these lean condition codes (bank 1 and 2) gets smoked. The four most common leaks are intake gasket leaking, EGR valve leaking, IAC valve leak, and PCV valve at bottom side of intake. The smoke finds these immediately. Most of these Fords are finicky and it is difficult if not impossible to hear the difference in idle with carb cleaner or propane because of the engines whooshing noise. In today’s cars a minimum amount of vacuum loss may be causing these problems due to their increasing complexity and stricter emission requirements.

Here are about four days worth or repairs. We worked on a Ford Taurus and found leaking upper and lower intakes. Re-smoked it and found a leaking EGR. Wrote about a $550.00 invoice. A Mazda had a fractured inlet and a leaking elbow at the PVC resulted in a $650.00 invoice. We found an upper intake leak on a Ford Ranger and verified a leak on a Dodge Intrepid. On these repairs the tickets averaged about $450.00.

Now we repair with confidence and show the customer where the engine takes in un-metered air so they are comfortable with our service.

We really like not having to hassle with nitrogen or a smoke machine that has its own internal air compressor. Hook this up to your air supply (it has a regulator on it) and a car battery and you are ready for testing. It is not complicated.

I can see now how many cars I sent away to the dealer that I could have fixed easily with this tool. The profit lost to our business is a little hard to swallow.

I am strongly recommending this tool to our other stores.”

“This tool is very simple, just push a button and it goes.

We found a leak on a 2000 Ford Expedition; it had EVAP codes 6 times in the last year and had been to at least 3 different shops. They changed all the (PCV) lines under the hood only to have the light come back on in a few weeks. Then the customer brought it to us. Within 20 minutes I fixed a gasket (O RING) at the fuel pump. This tool worked absolutely perfect and I wrote a $600.00 ticket. I believe the code was a PO 440 or 442,

On a 2000 Mercedes Benz we found that the oil separator was clogged, the customer had been to the dealership which was not aware of the problem. The Smoke Pro really figured this out in a few minutes.

We sold this job only because we were able to show the customer with smoke the problem.

Being able to get the oil for this tool at Wal Mart is really a plus.

This tool creates opportunity that means profit for our business."