MAHLE Test Systems, a supplier of end-of-line and diagnostic engineering services to the automotive industry, has announced the general availability of a new ¡®TestLogiq¡¯ mobile evaporative system dry leak tester for automotive and component fuel systems.

"As government regulations for on-board diagnostics evolve, testing tolerances on many emissions systems are becoming more stringent," said Ben Shirey, Director for MAHLE Test Systems. "This tester is engineered to meet current (U.S.) Environmental Protection Agency regulations that require an audit detection of minute leaks in the fuel system, which would be time-prohibitive using standard on-board diagnostic routines."

The portable evaporative system dry leak tester conducts a vacuum-based test of a fuel system through the vehicle's fuel-tank filler neck, without requiring disassembly of the vehicle, without using vehicle power, and within a cycle time suitable for in-line testing on a production assembly line.

An application of the TestLogiq tester has been in use at all Chrysler Group manufacturing plants in North America for more than a year. More recently, the tester has been applied to other critical subsystems, as well as Tier 1 manufacturing.

MAHLE Test Systems is part of MAHLE Powertrain LLC, a division created when The MAHLE Group acquired Cosworth Technology in 2005. It employs 600 people at its offices in Michigan and Northampton, Wellingborough and Worcester in the UK.