The system technologies that were once only a figment of an engineer’s imagination are the systems we are seeing on production cars today. Are you ready for what tomorrow may bring?
One recent (and also our first “cold”) morning, my wife headed off to work as she normally does but on the way there, experienced a severe “shudder” when she came to a full stop in her 2014 Scion tC.
I wasn’t angry because I had lost the technician competition. I was angry at myself because I had tried a testing method I was sure I understood and failed. (OK, maybe I was also a little angry that I lost.)
Electrical problems are often hidden from view, if not entirely invisible to our sight. We have to rely on our tools and our knowledge, often actively ignoring what our emotions may be telling us.
To be a great diagnostic technician, you have to be able to understand how things interact, and how one element of a system can impact another. These are all critical thinking skills and some are born with a greater abundance of these skills than others.
Every technician has been there — deep in the diagnosis, tunnel vision sets in, and often memorable mistakes are made. But it's only a failure of you don't learn from the experience!
Like the doctor you rely on to keep you healthy and safe, your customer relies on you to advise them on the state of health of their automobile. Here are a few thoughts on what you should be checking on each and every car you touch.
I recently heard two men whom I respect very much jokingly refer to technicians who were using a new diagnostic method I’d never heard of before – Statistical Diagnostics. The term references what seems to be an increasingly common trend, and a great topic for this month’s Tech Corner!
