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David
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I think the problem stems from ‘lack of balance’ in the trade. I have always been responsible for my own training to back up my practical experiences in the workshop, however when you branch off to higher education then nothing really learned there is of much value to the garage shop floor because what an employer needs there is really a nuts and bolts type of person who can get the job out, while specialist training like auto-electrics is also not really delved into deeply in higher education either, therefore organisations like Bosch who specialize in this subject are the better places to go if the person wants a job on the shop floor. My long term experience now tells me if I had my time over again, and I could know what I know today, I’d look for something else as a job because the motor trade is the most poorly paid and disrespected professional trade I know of when I compare it to other trades.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the way advanced technology has gone in modern vehicles that manufacturers and their designers will not take into consideration the outside trade during the design of diagnostic investigations. Why should they?

Modern vehicles (if you believe that) are capable of communication directly with the manufacturers and dealers now, thus faults that are developing on a vehicle now but have not reached the point of failure can be assessed on the vehicle by technology and is now being electronically booked into the dealers automatically and the driver can be advised through the instrument display of the said vehicle. Sound good, seems the latest idea, maybe heard it in a Bosch Master Tech training course! Please be advised, nothing brought to the attention of the trade today is new, all this technology was around a very long time ago and back in the 1980’s through my early college years when I learned about it. The wheel cannot be reinvented by sitting back a generation or two and then bringing back old ideas and making them new again.

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