Abstract: A diagnostic tester for motor vehicles is described, and programmable control units having self-diagnostic means are provided for in the motor vehicle that, in program-controlled fashion, control, monitor the engine control and other systems of the motor vehicle, generate error codes and store them, and which can be connected to an external diagnostic tester via a diagnostic/test plug in the motor vehicle. The external diagnostic tester is equipped with a program recognition and program loading device. The program version contained in the connected control unit is queried and recognized using the program recognition device. Then, if the program available in the motor vehicle and recognized via the diagnostic/test plug, available in the connected control unit of the motor vehicle is not stored in the latest and most current version, the respective latest version is loaded by the program loading device into the program storage device of the corresponding control unit.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine wherein the vapor pressure curve is determined with a pressure sensor in the fuel metering pipe during the shutoff phase of the engine and the fuel injection quantity in a subsequent start of the engine is corrected in correspondence to this pressure curve.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for operating an internal combustion engine wherein the vapor pressure curve is determined with a pressure sensor in the fuel metering pipe during the shutoff phase of the engine and the fuel injection quantity in a subsequent start of the engine is corrected in correspondence to this pressure curve.

Abstract: A method and an arrangement for operating a drive unit of a vehicle are suggested. A desired value is preset and an actual value corresponding to the desired value is determined. The desired value is filtered in at least one operating situation. At the start of filtering, the filter is initialized with the determined actual value.

Abstract: An on-board diagnostic arrangement is disclosed for checking component systems of a motor vehicle by test functions which are triggered during operation of the motor vehicle under predetermined start conditions. The test functions are characterized in that at least one signal can be coupled into the arrangement via which the triggering of the test functions by the arrangement is inhibited and in that at least one test function, which is carried out by the arrangement, is triggered independently of the predetermined start conditions and/or can be modified in its sequence. The arrangement makes possible a shortening of the check of component systems at the end of an assembly line or after customer service because satisfying time-consuming start conditions for the normal operation of the test functions can be omitted.