Re: OT: skills shortage

clutch@xxxxxxxxx wrote in news:11ob08uctbl8n07@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> That is an excellent example of a service sector job that pays well.
> After a 15 year hiatus from working on my own vehicles I found I had
> to seriously upgrade my knowledge base to troubleshoot and repair my
> own car. The complexity of a vehicle has gone up a lot over the last
> 20 years or so.
>
> I've read horror stories on the web about car repairs gone wrong where
> it was obvious that the service person was not a technican but only a
> parts changer.
>
> For some reason parts changers focus on the most expensive part in a
> machine when they are running after snowflakes rather than using
> knowledge and deduction to focus on the problem item.

Worse yet is that you need specialized equipment to change a lot of the
parts these days. The automakers make that equipment prohibitively
expensive.

My wife's car had the service light come on and it started running rough. I
determined that it needed a new mass air sensor. The mass air sensor is an
integral part of the throttle body, so it's not a cheap part to begin with.
Worse yet it turns out that if you change it on your own the car won't run.
You need to hook up a computer to the car and download some data in order
for it to work.

It's not any old Wintel computer either. It's an $18,000.00 "special" that
no dealer is going to lend out. You have to take the car to the dealer.
What a rip-off. And what small repair shop is going to lay out that kind of
money for the proper equipment?

--

Dan

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