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My daughter also wants to become a mechanic, she loves getting stuck in every weekend helping me in my workshop. I also have a female apprentice, who is fantastic. Listens, learns, does the job as I want her to ie. not leaving any traces of being under the bonnet, no oily handprints anywhere, no spills, no boot marks on carpets etc…
On day one, i had her strip an broken engine to learn how it works, and what was inside, day two she did a timing belt for another garage, day three she did an engine swap, day four she did a clutch, day five she rebuilt a peugeot engine……
And since then, I have not had to really supervise her at all.
I have had many male ‘work experience’ people, and what a bunch of useless, lazy, messy muppets they were….. never again!!
So yeah, encourage this girl if it is what she wants to do… they make far more relaible mechanics in my opinion!