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Gather the known conditions
You enter the vehicle details, symptom, observed conditions, recent work, and safety level. You keep facts separate from suspected causes.
Made for Auto Mechanics
Capture the Conditions Behind an Intermittent Fault
15 min
Intermediate
Make a Plan
Gather the exact conditions surrounding an intermittent symptom and turn them into a focused reproduction plan you can use in the bay or on a test drive.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Avoid chasing a vague complaint under the wrong conditions.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Close the important gaps
You answer the targeted questions with exact values or useful ranges when possible. You don't guess or add a diagnosis.
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Produce the reproduction plan
You have the assistant organize your facts into a controlled sequence that starts with a baseline and changes conditions carefully.
Make Your Play
Capture the Conditions Behind an Intermittent Fault
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Provide the year, make, model, engine, transmission, drivetrain, mileage, and any relevant modifications you know.
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Describe exactly what is noticed, where it seems to come from, how long it lasts, and how often it occurs without naming an assumed cause.
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List the temperature, speed, load, road, fuel, drive-time, sound, smell, warning-light, and operating conditions already known.
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List recent repairs, maintenance, impacts, battery events, modifications, fluid changes, or changes in when the symptom occurs.
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Select the highest known safety concern before planning any reproduction attempt.
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What you'll do
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01
Gather the known conditions
You enter the vehicle details, symptom, observed conditions, recent work, and safety level. You keep facts separate from suspected causes.
02
Close the important gaps
You answer the targeted questions with exact values or useful ranges when possible. You don't guess or add a diagnosis.
03
Produce the reproduction plan
You have the assistant organize your facts into a controlled sequence that starts with a baseline and changes conditions carefully.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
You can enter plain observations even if you don’t know exact technical values. Write “unknown” when you don’t have a detail. Answer the follow-up questions from memory, the repair order, or a safe conversation with your customer. Don’t guess.
Advanced instructions
You can add freeze-frame details, event data, scan-tool parameters, temperature readings, RPM ranges, gear-command information, or previous test results. Keep reported conditions separate from measured conditions, and change one major variable at a time during the controlled test.
Use this when
Use this when a fault comes and goes, doesn't appear during the first inspection, or seems tied to a specific operating condition.
You'll need
- Vehicle basics
- Reported symptom
- Observed conditions
- Recent work or changes
- Known safety concern
You'll get
- A neutral symptom definition, a ranked list of trigger conditions, a three-pass reproduction plan, a recording checklist, clear stop conditions, and a short list of unknowns
- You can run the plan without guessing which conditions matter.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A neutral symptom definition, a ranked list of trigger conditions, a three-pass reproduction plan, a recording checklist, clear stop conditions, and a short list of unknowns
- You can run the plan without guessing which conditions matter.
Examples
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