Mobile communications interface, system comprising a mobile communications interface, and a method for identifying, diagnosing, servicing, and repairing a vehicle

The invention relates to a method for identifying, diagnosing, servicing, and repairing a vehicle (10) in a garage, comprising the steps of: saving customer, vehicle, and job-sheet data which pertain to said vehicle (10), out of a central customer databank and into a working data storage-device (18) of a mobile communications interface (1); connecting the mobile communications interface (1) to said vehicle (10) and connecting a first vehicle testing device (3a) at least to said mobile communications interface (1), at a first work station (41); reading the customer, vehicle, and job-sheet data out of the working data storage-device (18) of the mobile communications interface (1) and into the control computer (32a) of the first vehicle testing device (3a); carrying out first tests on the vehicle (10) using the first vehicle testing device (3a) and/or the mobile communications interface (1); saving the first test results into the working data storage-device (18) of the mobile communications interface (1) by mean