Question by Devin: What’s the best education program to becoming a car mechanic?
I want to pursue training in car mechanics and I’m wondering what type of institute offers the highest level of education. My dream job would require expertise; I don’t want to work at Jiffy Lube changing people’s oil for a living. What’s the best path to attaining a higher end job at a dealership? And out of curiosity, what are the “higher end” jobs for car mechanics? Are there options other than the local community college?
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Answer by Theneelster
Do you want to be a book monkey or a mechanic? If you want to be an actual mechanic join the military and work as a repair mechanic for them and if possible also work on a mechanical engineering degree while you’re there or shortly afterward. If you do that you have options. Getting roped into working at a dealership the rest of your life is a depressing path…at least set yourself up to do other more important things.
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A local community college will be sufficient as long as their program prepares you for ASE certification. WYO TECH is a program that I hear prepares you for this. If your looking to become a high end dealer technician then I suggest you try to attain as many ASE certifications, especially Smog Certs. and Computer Control. After you become employed at a dealership they then provide the training needed to work your way up to Master Technician level. Honda in my city does most of their training and testing online. I must warn you though most dealerships are flat rate shops and working flat rate when first starting out is very frustrating until you get some seniority under your belt and know the “tricks to the trade” if you will to get the hours in allowed per vehicle. I’ve seen many techs. fresh out of school that have many ASE certificates but when it comes down to actually wrenching allot of that book work doesn’t really apply to hands on experience. While your in school try to acquire as many tools as possible and if you can try to buy an up-datable scanner as well. Good luck and hope this helps.
The BEST education is to actually repair a lot of cars. Any GOOD ASE certified mechanic will tell you they NEVER stop learning new things. You don’t REALLY understand what you ‘learn’ in a class until you actually DO it. I can find EVERYTHING on the ASE certification test on-line. That doesn’t mean I can actually fix anything.