Being an expert or experienced Auto Mechanic is not about the numbers of years you have practiced but the numbers of challenging cars fault you have solved. As an expert auto diagnostician who basically works on only problematic cars several mechanics have battled with and couldn’t solve I know the exact challenges a lot of auto techs face.
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I had the opportunity to have practiced in several mechanic workshops during my apprenticeship days, from the roadside workshops to International standard dealership workshops where I have learnt a lot and worked on almost all generations and brands of cars. Haven’t worked on American, Japanese, Germany, Korean and some others of cars brands. Coupled with the knowledge I had as a Mechanical engineer from the University I have been able to understand why most times mechanics faced very challenging problem that they can’t resolve with some cars.
It would surprise you that majority of mechanics in all parts of the world including America and Europe lack proper knowledge of Automotive Diagnostics Technology for both Mechanical, Electrical and Computerized faults. I can boldly say this because daily I consults for Mechanics from all parts of the world.
As one of the few mechanics who have dedicated our time and resources to offer free and paid consultancy services to mechanics round the globe (although we earn more from consultancy than fixing cars). I know that the challenge of proper vehicle diagnostics make mechanics to continue to get issues with fixing modern vehicles cannot be fixed by just acquiring sophisticated diagnostics tool and Software. But there should be a change in the method of Training.
Learning the act of auto mechanic should not just be strictly apprenticeship, where the knowledge of the apprentice is limited a few cars. Rather there should be systematic method of adding relevant practical theories classes or sections to the apprenticeship program of auto mechanics, that would teach them proper auto diagnostic method, and also modern development in vehicles if possible future technology should also be taught. This would ensure that the apprentice are prepared to face any kind of challenges as regards auto repairs even when they have not worked on such brand or generation of vehicles.
Also, rather than emphasizing on mere replacement of parts as repair method, repairing of faulty parts should be encouraged. It’s not advisable to repair all faulty parts but there are certain components that can be repaired or serviced and would function well. Such components should be repaired. This would allow the apprentice to understand the working principles of such components better, and it will improve the creative problem solving techniques in them.
Also I believe that every auto apprentice must at least have a good Knowledge of the all aspects of Auto repair technology which include Mechanical, Electrical, Body Work and Computerized Technology before they can specialize in any of these aspects. Because for modern vehicles some repairs requires good knowledge of mechanical, Electrical, and computerized automotive aechnology. Just as disassembly and reassembly of such parts may need auto body skills and tools to do such.
Finally, there should be regular Automotive Tech conferences to train Auto Techs to modern innovations in the Auto world especially in this era where we are already switching from IC powered vehicles to Electric and Automoted Cars.
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