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Autovista changing to Carweb #

Posted by Graham Bullock on May 21, 2015, 7:03 pm
Edited by board administrator May 26, 2015, 1:59 pm

Just received the following email, is Carweb the same, similar or will Autovista be changing a lot?

Dear AutoVista subscriber

I am writing to inform you about some changes to AutoVista, the online automotive technical data system for repairers and workshops supplied by Blue Print.

Since its launch in 2012 AutoVista has attracted many loyal subscribers who have benefited from the innovative features of the system, indeed the feedback from AutoVista users has generated additional modifications and upgrades which in turn have made the system a real success.

The ongoing maintenance and development of AutoVista is an important consideration for us, however we feel that the time has come to hand this significant task over to a specialist company who have the time, knowledge and experience to keep AutoVista up to date with emerging vehicle technology and needs of the subscribers.

Consequently, I am pleased to announce that CarweB will assume complete responsibility for all aspects of the support and development of AutoVista with effect from Monday 1st June 2015.

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by Peter Warman on May 21, 2015, 8:06 pm, in reply to "Autovista changing to Carweb"
Peter Warman

Hi Graham

CarWeb and AutoVista are the same product (same data) only difference is that they have difference interfaces and colours

Any errors found on AutoVisa would be passed onto CarWeb for correction

All the data on both was originally Vivid Workshop Data, Haynes bought Vivid a few years ago and renamed it Haynes Pro

The odd thing about it all, despite Hayes being one of our British icons with the Manuals etc they will not let us in the UK buy Haynes Pro, but you can buy it everywhere else in the world!!

What Haynes have done is to let CarWeb have the data and produce it as e3Technical and AutoVista, so yes they are the same product

Is AutoVista being phased out, I will ask Rob Head tomorrow

CarWeb are the experts in VRM lookup, they clean up the data for DVLA, it's then sold to any company that needs VRM on their websites

Peter

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by aidan birley on May 21, 2015, 8:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Autovista changing to Carweb"

Hi

>>> they will not let us in the UK buy Haynes Pro,<<<

Haynes Pro is now supplied FOC in the UK with delphi diagnostic soft wear subscription.

This is the basic version, but as understand from last release notes Delphi service centers will get the Full version from June.

See Link at bottom for more info

Cheers Aidan

Link: Link to Delphi

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by Peter Warman on May 21, 2015, 8:46 pm, in reply to "Re: Autovista changing to Carweb"
Peter Warman

All Haynes are doing is selling them the data the same as CarWeb and AutoVista. I doubt very much if you will be able to log into the Haynes Pro website, I would not think it's free

just built into the subscription cost

Peter

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by aidan birley on May 21, 2015, 9:18 pm, in reply to "Re: Autovista changing to Carweb"
Aidan Birley

Hi Peter

It is internet based, so I guess it is connecting directly to hayns pro Web site.

It includes REG Number look up on main screen i.e. type in the reg and returns VIN which in turn automatically selects make / model/ engine type on the diagnostic scanner selection screen.

As for cost, I purchased mine with 3 year subscription deal 18 months ago, The haynes pro link was added Feb this year so no extra cost for me at least until end of next year.!

Cheers Aidan

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by Graham Bullock on May 21, 2015, 9:34 pm, in reply to "Re: Autovista changing to Carweb"
Graham Bullock

Thanks Peter,

I will wait to here from them when they are ready for the change over to the new site.

Graham

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by Peter Warman on May 21, 2015, 9:48 pm, in reply to "Re: Autovista changing to Carweb"
Peter Warman

That sounds about right then, CarWeb will be the supplier of the VRM lookup, then linked through to Haynes Pro website

But as I mentioned earlier, you cannot buy Haynes Pro as a stand alone product like Autodata in the UK, they make you buy it as e3Techical or AutoVista

Vivid Workshop Data used to be good, but did need a name change, whenever you did a search for Vivid you did not always get the result you expected

Peter

Re: Autovista changing to Carweb

Posted by Peter Warman on May 25, 2015, 2:16 pm, in reply to "Autovista changing to Carweb"

Hi Graham

I did speak to a couple of people at Top Tech

From what I was told a few years back, BluePrint had developed AutoVista as a sort of bolt on to the products they sold, this was more to help out their customers with an alternative to Autodata, also included their parts catalogue

BluePrint as you know were taken over a couple of years back by Bilstein and I think the accountants are now looking at the NON profitable parts of their acquisitions (allegedly

) so AutoVista may well be a casualty. The big problem is how they are going to covert garages customer data over and integrate it