Happy Birthday to our Service Advisor Shane!
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Happy Birthday to our Service Advisor Shane!
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Our Auto Tech students earned a total of 58 entry level ASE certs this school year!
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Basic Class Lesson of the Day: Tire Inspection
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We are finishing up are Spring semester and have successfully completed out first full year for out EV/Hybrid Courses.
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Whether you're a mom or just bring those mom vibes to work, which “mom move” have you caught yourself doing in the shop?
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Happy Birthday to our Gold Meister Tech Dan!
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Jr certified technician working on a intake manifold on a Jetta.
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💐 Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Tom Wood Subaru! 💐
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Detail Spotlight: Zach + This Toyota Supra = Perfection!
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We're Hiring – All Departments, All Levels!
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Big shoutout to our Nissan Service and Parts team for clinching the win in Nissan’s Steak & Beans competition against other dealers!
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Today, the average age of a vehicle on the road is 12.5 years old. This is good business for many dealership service departments and independent repair facilities. As of course the older the vehicle, the less likely it will be to fall under factory warranties and warranty extensions. But this may possibly pose a problem for the modern entry level technician. If the average vehicle age is 12.5 years old, this also means that even older vehicles are staying on the road much longer. Some maybe older than your newest technicians! Why does this matter? It will be important to start new technicians out on the right foot and in the correct mindset. Older, uncared for, improperly repaired vehicles (let’s not beat around the bush and call it what it is, junk) flooding repair shops may not be a reflection of what these new technicians were trained to work with. Older vehicles tend to be far more likely to have higher levels of rust, have components that are more difficult remove, are more likely to have fasteners and other parts that will break if extreme care is not used. While these vehicles entering repair facilities is part of the business. It maybe in a shop manager and/or owners interest to great consideration in a vehicles age when dispatching work. Some shops have vehicle age restrictions to keep older vehicles that may bring excess issues and aggravation out of the shop. Such as no vehicles older than 20 years old, or vehicles built before 1996 (pre OBDII).
Technician
This is also another area to specialize for techs who want to work on those older cars. If a shop sets an age limit and only wants to work on new stuff, folks that like the older projects can sell that service. I've worked on everything from 1949 to 2024, and I am more familiar with the stuff from 1980 up, but as long as I can access the information, I can fix it.
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For sure. As long as accurate info is available, anything is possible. Main point I’m driving home is that it’s not going to be realistic for entry level techs to be comfortable on working on vehicles older than themselves. 20 year old vehicle technology today, is realistically equivalent to what 40 year old vehicle technology 20 years ago. Considering how much vehicle technology has advanced in the past 20 years.
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