Tech Tip: Redline Detection SpeedSmoke

Dec. 4, 2020

Related To: Redline Detection LLC

In this video, Scott Brown, ASE Master Certified L1 Technician, provides troubleshooting tech tips utilizing Redline Detection's SpeedSmoke unit for dealing with an engine under boost fault (DTC P0299) on a 2015 GM Ecotec 1.4L turbocharged RPO-LUV engine.

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