Thermal Imaging Camera For Automotive Diagnosis - Tire Leaks, Parasitic Drain, Seat Heaters and More 

Thanks James! This was a fun video to make and having this tool is very valuable as a tech.

Hello, There are a lot of great uses for this tool. Great to have one on hand to help solve some odd problems.

Thanks Manish, This is a great tool to have on hand.

Thanks bud! I love having one of these thermal imagers handy. They can really help diagnosis when used in the right setting.

@@AskTheCarExperts I love mine so I know what you mean lad.

Hi SS Thank you!

Your welcome. Having a thermal imager is such an awesome tool.

Hi Curt, This is an amazing diagnosis tool. I have not regretted owning one 😀

Very very true! You can get a false reading from a thermal reflection. I have see it on Chrome trim for example. Great mote!

Great trick!

Hi Randy, The tire air leak was done very close of about 2 feet away and the rim heat dissipation was about 6 to 8 feet away. I am sure you can see the heat pattern at 30 feet but it might not be as dialed in.

They are decent quality as well.

@@AskTheCarExperts sure they are quality. But the price is so inflated it’s incredible that people buy there stuff. At least stuff that is not exclusive to them. When I buy tools I asses if this tool will make a positive amount of money in a reasonable amount of time. If the answer is no, then why buy it?

It should be able to detect a change in temperature from the exhaust gases

Absolutely! Have already run into it where I work. Make sure the wheel rim hub surface is not painted. The mating surface is where you need to be concerned.

I think it may help in some cases but an air leak can be very small and it is sucking air I'm so I don't think it would work too well. Best to use a smoke machine for an air leak diagnosis.

@@AskTheCarExperts Ahh yes, I was just very curious if I can bypass a smoke machine cause that would be an incredible new way of detecting vacuum leaks! Thanks for the reply. I shall still give it a try on my w124. Just got the flir one pro to test

Hi Zoe, It is a fun tool to play with

Hi Randy, There are 3 options for the seek camera. This is the less expensive one but it works great!

@@AskTheCarExperts thank you. It looks like one of those tools that you don't absolutely need, but once you buy it you keep finding uses for it. That happened to me when I bought my first non-contact temperature gun. 2 weeks later my $37 tool made me $550. I install flooring and I worked at a house with a radiant heat floor. I needed to nail down tack strip around the perimeter of the rooms for the carpeting. It was a very slow process, but I could the center off every tube in the floor, probably within an eighth of an inch. The tubes were not a consistent distance from the wall and in many locations, the tubes we're directly below where I needed to drive nails. I was able to determine that the tubes were installed incorrectly. I went off the deep end a year ago and bought a fluke because I use the tools so often. No such thing as too many tools, right 😁

In some cases, that is true. Refective surfaces can show an incorrect reading such as chrome.