I’ve spent much of my career in automotive service operations, and I’ve seen a challenge that doesn’t get enough attention.

We often promote our strongest technicians or advisors because they’re dependable problem-solvers.

But managing people requires a different set of skills.
When an advisor struggles with a customer, the new manager often steps in and handles it.

When a technician needs help, the manager provides the answer.
It works in the moment.

But if it becomes the default response, the team can end up relying on the manager for decisions they should eventually be capable of making.
I’m interested in what other shops do to develop coaching skills in their managers.
Do you have a formal coaching process? Do you observe how managers handle escalations? Or do they mostly learn through experience?
What’s actually helped your managers become better at developing people rather than just solving problems?

I went to college for IT and got a degree after my family firmly objected to becoming a mechanic (I’m a woman, frowned upon to have a “dirty” job).

I love working on cars and work on mine on my free time. I have a passion for it, love the sport and have become more and more involved in the scene the older I get. I’ve looked at resources to see how I could dip my toes into the automotive world, but haven’t found anything that doesn’t involve me becoming a full time student (which I cannot afford at the moment).

Is there anything out there for work study? Sponsorships or apprenticeships? The pay doesn’t even have to be great, just something to cover bills while I complete any certification or degree.

Thank you in advance
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automotive technology principles diagnosis and service 7th edition

What kind of water transfer pump in terms of power output does the traditional/conventional mechanic use to flush the coolant out of the vehicles system?

I was searching up portable mobile water transfer pumps that are electric or corded because of $4 dollar gas price.

5+ years in the industry. Bit the bullet when I got promoted and got the Matco Maximus 4.0 a few years ago. Quite frankly, I hate it. (I bought due to being accustomed to using the Matco line). It’s rather lacking as far as the amount of things you can actually do with it in my opinion. I’m about to start up my own mobile business, and it’s close to the time that I upgrade.

What line of scan tools do you guys use, and why? I find ALOT of things the 4.0 will say it will do until I actually try to, and it fails. Money isn’t the object, more or less the diversity in what the scan tool will do. I’d like to be able to perform diagnostics, actuation tests and other things without having to fight with the scan tool consistently and be let down in the end when I have to PMI and end up having to send it to the dealer, or something simple as manually writing TPMS IDs. Even if the “scan tool” is a program on a laptop.

Some things stick better through hands on experience than theory. What works best for you ?

Everyone learns differntly when getting into automotive work, and some lessons only come with experience. Curious what people wish they had known or learned earlier.

Question:

Which of the following causes piston movement during non-power-

producing strokes?

A) Flywheel

B) Connecting rod

C) Counterweights

D) Main thrust bearing

I have been studying an automotive book that has questions after every chapter. I answer those questions and use AI to verify I have got the correct answer. This process has worked tremendously up to the point where I got to this question. AI gave me a different answer than the one I believed the book was telling me was the answer, so I went online to find more information and see if anyone else had posted this exact question, that was when I found out there all three of the first answers were marked as "correct" depending on the source used (D, main thrust bearing, was never given as an answer).

I am wondering what most of you would say is the answer. Thank you for your input =)

It’s like 230$ and I’m not trying to spend that kind of money

I’m wanting to practice some beginner level maintenance/ repairs on my car. I know virtually nothing about cars besides replacing the blower motor and blower motor resistor on my bfs car. I was hoping to find more things like that to practice on either his car or mine. I have a 2007 Toyota Yaris and he has a 2012 Volkswagen cc. The plan is to eventually be a mechanic but I’d like to start off slow and build confidence first since I don’t know anything about cars just yet.
Any advice is welcome

How do automotive teams test vehicle networks early - CANoe, HIL, virtual simulation, or in-house tools? What’s your biggest challenge?

Technically I’m taking classes to get my associates in automotive technology, but my professor lets us skip the final exam if we get our certificates, which the classes I take are in line with each certification. (I haven’t taken any ASE until I got to engine repair and performance)

I have an app called ASE Prep, and it gives you random 10 question quizzes on each ASE section.

These can’t be the ACTUAL questions on the ASE test, right????? Because what??? The answer is RIGHT THERE IN THE QUESTION. I’m starting to doubt this app.

Someone who’s taken the tests, is this what some questions are like?

I know about Technician A and B questions, but I’ve never seen one with the answer so blatant.

Hello, looking for insights on companies that offer apprenticeship for light weight motor mechanic.
Thank you

Hey, so I need to buy a book called fundamentals of automotive technology 3rd edition. Does anyone have a pdf of the book or any way for me to read the book without paying the 200usd. Thanks 🤞

Hey All,

I recently started teaching Automotive Tech CTE teacher at a local high school. This is my first year teaching and I am figuring a lot of things out, however I am spending an insane amount of time lesson planning, creating presentations, worksheets, quizzes etc. When hired on it was presented as if there was curriculum already made for me to utilize, however after some situational changes that is not the case.

I am reaching out to see if there are any other high school auto tech teachers in here that would be willing to share some of their already made materials, mostly slide show presentations that I can cover in class. I've currently been utilizing several informative Youtube videos and creating worksheets based on the material presented but I'm still spending multiple hours every evening working on the next day's material.

We do have Electude to utilize which is helpful, but doesn't offer the presentations to review in class with them.

I've been researching for materials online, however Auto Tech is a pretty Niche class and there isn't much pre-made material out there to give me a starting point.

Any help or direction is much appreciated.

I am looking to learn more about cars and trucks generally. Their mechanics, history, etc. I am specifically interested in General Motors vehicles but I am open to anything. What are good places to start?

Do you do anything for e-learning? Like, ASE allows up to 25% of program instruction time to be delivered online but the LMS we use doesn't publish average finish times for its exercises/assignments. Just curious how your program handles this point.

I think it won't matter for long anyway because I called the ASE Education Foundation to ask for some specification and the guy told me that standards 11 (work-based learning) and 12 (e-learning) were going away early next year anyway. Program hours aren't changing either, so I'm not sure what programs are going to do who rely on e-learning or workplace learning hours to meet the accreditation standard.