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Just don't be scared, a car is nothing but a" bunch of nuts and bolts with a couple of pieces in between" (my dads quote). Alot of knowledge is car specific certain cars are prone to certain problems but with the internet there is a forum for every car out there and get the "shop manual" not the chilton or haynes manual. Invest your money in tools.
The OP asked if taking a course to get a certificate of being trained and certified to help him save on his car repairs and learn about his car enough to be educated in dealing with repair shops.My answer was that reading and understanding his cars service manual would teach him the details he wants to learn. If he can not do this he is wasting his time in taking a highly technical auto training course. They dont offer courses on just one model and thats why he would waste time.If he cant read and understand a service manual he doesnt have the ability to take a real training course because that would be much harder. You start with the basics and having and reading and understanding the manual is a basic for him to accomplish what he is asking about.
I went to a pretty good school....almost a year long....learned a lot. Too bad I have a pretty bad case of hereditary neuropathy......nerves scream and burn when under too much stress. I really wanted to make a career of it.....but it was too painful.
If you want to get really good at working on cars, I would concentrate at least half the time on electricity/electronics. Being very good at reading schematics, understanding how circuits work, using pc based scan tools, digital storage oscilliscopes, electricity/electronic troubleshooting, logic troubleshooting methods, scopemeters, working with computer interfaces............all these are very important. The future of cars is going to be more and more based on electronics......more and more complicated systems.
I don't own a car right now, but expect to use further knowledge gained to be a little more independent when it comes to making sure my potential next vehicle stays running without any issues. Since I now know what everyone means by "look at the FSM" it doesn't sound so difficult after all.
As far as this mantra about "wasting time" goes, all I have is work and sleep in my life at this point.
Not trying to take this off track, but vocational ed in this realm is all about keeping my life occupied. Some people have relationships, people like me try to go for things more worthwhile.
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