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The automotive repair industry has undergone a paradigm shift over the last three decades. The era of the "shade tree mechanic," reliant on a greasy paperback manual and intuition, has been supplanted by an era of software-driven diagnostics. Modern vehicles are essentially computers on wheels, containing dozens of Electronic Control Units (ECUs) communicating via CAN-bus protocols. In this environment, static PDF manuals are often insufficient.