Snap-On Tools repair and diagnostic tools and equipment, are high quality yet very expensive. When the price makes your butthole hurt.
For mechanics, the expense is considered part of a lifetime investment in their tools of the trade.
They give a license to operate a franchised mobile store so the extra markup is for the franchisee I believe. They have phone tech support.
Then there is some other game getting service manuals, schematics for the equipment etc. I've heard they also lock that down so repairs are exclusive and expensive. Not sure about their warranty.
Snap-on goes to an OEM with their own "special features", looks etc. Their custom multimeters are OEM'd out of Korea, have 61010 safety certs. that I can see.
A common application for automotive multimeters is measuring parasite drain, and of course the fuse gets blown so I wonder what they have - Cat. III 600V so it's your usual expensive multimeter fuse. Mechanics would need a bushel of 10x38's UGH.
I recently fixed a Fluke used by heavy duty mechanics and they'd machined brass spacers to accommodate 5x20mm fuses in the 10x38 holder lol. One way to save pain. I should post a pic, start a fad.
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