Hey all, I've been poking around here for a few months after a friend introduced my to this site. I decided it was time to become a member and join the conversations. I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes to working on these cl***ics and have a lot to learn. A little about myself, I have been a master certified automotive technician for 19 years. 18 of those years I spent working in a GM dealership and thanks to COVID and a search for new challenges I landed a job about 9 months ago to be a privately contracted auto mechanic for an individual with a collection of 46 vehicles. Needless to say, I have been faced with a variety of challenges but have welcomed them all. This experience has forced me to grow and learn and I hope to continue on this path with the help of you all. Thanks.
Hi & welcome. WOW, 46 of them can be a challenge for a technician as likely few have computers. You will quickly become a mechanic. Hopefully the owner has the parts and service manuals and with that you should have it easier. If in a bind for info on a spefic vehicle Faxon Auto Literature has some originals and most all reprints of service manuals. www.faxonautolit.com . jimmie
Thanks, I was told they had manuals for all the cars. I have found that not to be true, thanks for the link.
Welcome to the HAMB from Illinois. Sounds like a really interesting job. With a fleet that size you have to get one car started each week to run them all at least a little in a year. Wow!
A master certified auto technician that has a lot to learn! Lol. What chance do I stand?!?!? Welcome bud. Another youngster from MI. Nice.
Welcome from Detroit too. Old cars and new cars don’t have a lot in common [emoji16] Sent from my iPhone using H.A.M.B.
Welcome aboard just curious with your background in a dealership. What type of car really gets your motor running. I mean something you love to have or work on. I worked in several GM dealerships in the late 60s early 70s. I loved prepping the high HP cars ending with the test drive. But most often got stuck with everything else including lots of water leaks and road rattles yuck stuff that paid hardly nothing on flat rate. Take care enjoy your new adventure.
Truthfully working at the dealership for so long made me grow to hate cars. I also did a majority of the work that paid peanuts on flat rate, mostly transmission and diesels. I didn't mind working on the hard stuff but got tired of the flat rate game. Anyway, I've started to appreciate cars and working on them. I guess I'm becoming a gearhead again. Honestly what gets my motor running is tractors old and new. I farm part time and just love being in the tractor seat working the land. I come from a family of farmers and that's also how I got into wrenching. Hands down some of the best mechanics I've ever known were farmers.
Interesting love the old tractors too. Once I got out of the dealership I went to work for a trucking company working in the garage. Most of the trucks had 8v Detroit’s spent several years up to my elbows in oil and diesel fuel. My father-in-law had a small farm in southern Mi. He was quite a good mechanic too he called himself a rock farmer. His fence rows were piles of rock he pulled from the fields.
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