What was a Krypton Tune?
Discussion
I remember as a youngster seeing a lot of garages offering Krypton tunes in the 80s and thought it was something special, but as I got older and finally got a car I never had the opportunity to treat my cars to one of these elusive magical tunes?
Now I'm presuming it had nothing to do with the Son of Krypton or keeping him at bay, so older members of PH what was it?
Now I'm presuming it had nothing to do with the Son of Krypton or keeping him at bay, so older members of PH what was it?
A crypton machine was basically an ossiliscope that you measured everything on. It had gauges for various things and in the days when most had a timing light, it was hi tech.
We had one and charged extra for using it when in fact there was no need on a service if you did it correctly. They were expensive to buy, unreliable but looked good with all the cables and everything on show did sell itself.
We had one and charged extra for using it when in fact there was no need on a service if you did it correctly. They were expensive to buy, unreliable but looked good with all the cables and everything on show did sell itself.
We had the Sun equivalent at the place I worked at back then. It's a shame when wasted spark/distibutorless ignition came into play on Fords that the add-on wasted spark module for the Sun never bloody worked properly, it rapidly became used for it's clamp-on ammeter function and an expensive bookshelf!
Check this bad boy out, was state of the art in the late 80s! Left hand side of the screen was the 'scope, displayed the HT firing voltages etc, right hand side was a digital display of rpm,timing advance,volts,amps,CO/HC/02/C02,dwell etc... back when things were adjustable and cars had points!
When it was powered up in the morning it went through a calibration sequence and then printed it out. Remember my boss at the time handing this sheet to a pain-in-the-arse customer who maintained his car had a problem, when it didn't. Boss handed him the cal. sheet and said "There you go,machine says there's nothing wrong with it"
Now we have a Toughbook lap top,how times have changed!
Check this bad boy out, was state of the art in the late 80s! Left hand side of the screen was the 'scope, displayed the HT firing voltages etc, right hand side was a digital display of rpm,timing advance,volts,amps,CO/HC/02/C02,dwell etc... back when things were adjustable and cars had points!
When it was powered up in the morning it went through a calibration sequence and then printed it out. Remember my boss at the time handing this sheet to a pain-in-the-arse customer who maintained his car had a problem, when it didn't. Boss handed him the cal. sheet and said "There you go,machine says there's nothing wrong with it"
Now we have a Toughbook lap top,how times have changed!
Edited by GVK on Sunday 4th August 00:30
Made me feel old!I remember the last Crypton tune i paid for on a Mk2 Granada 2.8i.
Paid the substantial bill for the privilege, picked up the car and it drove like an absolute dog.
Took it back, garage owner sends out an old chap with a spanner and screwdriver who managed to get it running like an absolute dream with nothing more than his ears (and possibly using the force). That lesson taught me it's true value.
Paid the substantial bill for the privilege, picked up the car and it drove like an absolute dog.
Took it back, garage owner sends out an old chap with a spanner and screwdriver who managed to get it running like an absolute dream with nothing more than his ears (and possibly using the force). That lesson taught me it's true value.
In the arches at the bottom of Westgate Rd/Neville Street in Newcastle there was a Vargon Autotune shop. It closed years ago but the signs were around until they recently turned the arches into offices.
What was Vargon Autotune? I guess the same sort of caper as Krypton. Vargon ran TV adverts in the '80s with a very urgent sounding man.
What was Vargon Autotune? I guess the same sort of caper as Krypton. Vargon ran TV adverts in the '80s with a very urgent sounding man.
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