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The key difference, though, would be jobs & compensation. Nationally, IT Security has negative unemployment (more jobs than people to fill them) and it does pay pretty good once you've got a few years of experience. It can certainly be stressful (I've effectively been on call 24x7 since 1988) but I do enjoy it.
Wonder if that happens at the dealership or the franchises?
Of course, A&P mechanics are certified and have to have experience and pass tests before getting the certification. Otherwise you can work on "aviation related work" only under supervision of an A&P, and even then, there are a lot of parts you can't touch.
The difference between what he does and what the top automotive techs do is the company that he works for gets more than a thousand dollars an hour to guess which parts to try in a modular repair fashion. That's a lot like what Steve keeps lobbying for except and ours has no tolerance for anything even remotely appearing to work that way at a fraction of that price.
The real difference between our jobs? I could do his job starting next week. He couldn't fix a car if he had to and is amazed at how complicated some of the things that go wrong with them can be.
From 2012 - "Volkswagen Group has announced the introduction of a new vehicle architecture that optimizes standardization and use of technologies, extending from compact cars to large SUVs and sedans." (carbodydesign.com)
Modular Design for Technology Devices (huffpo)
The idea isn't new at all. I think it's inevitable that swapping assemblies will be SOP for car "repair" in the future. We're already there with parts swapping.
Audi S4 Carnage
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Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ford-f150-repair-cost-20150729-story.html
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Get a ding? Replace the front clip, get back to your life in a couple of hours.
How affordable and efficient is it to have a body shop tie up your car for ten days while they beat out metal by hand and then repaint it? You wind up with stressed metal that doesn't have the same molecular structure or strength it had when it was formed, so you lose a bit of structural integrity and safety.
Is this really much different from a Vette? As far as that goes, is it really much different from a Camry? Car design is still pretty much stuck in the "four wheels and a running board" stage.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '08 Charger R/T Daytona; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '08 Maser QP; '11 Mini Cooper S
So they only have two techs certified to do this work on the trucks. It's very likely those two techs are also the same two who do all of the work on any of the more advanced systems. It would serve people right if they find the article and many of the blind assertions made in the responses offensive enough that they both called it a career and walked out in the search of better things for themselves.
BTW the best part of this article is what it does for the perception about whether the shortage of qualified techs is real or not.
The world record is one minute and six seconds by some guys in Australia. The rest of y'all are just slackers.
Fastest VW Beetle engine swap (guinnessworldrecords.com)
I'm pretty sure most would not approve of someone simply dropping their engine onto the floor from any height. Then there are the modified wiring harness plug, fuel line, heater controls and tubes, etc.
Then a starter goes bad and it's the same result.
Get an oil leak? Same.
Misfire? Thermostat start sticking? Just imagine. No one to fix it, just plug and play the whole modular assembly.
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No one goes in an solders up HVAC control modules for instance. They replace them, and on some cars that's a $1000 whack in the head.
What I hear you saying is that we will make all this affordable by decreasing the labor time. Yes, but increasing the parts costs a great deal. So, owner gets screwed, technician gets screwed, parts suppliers and dealers make the profit. And the level of waste is enormous.
The only way your plan would work for the car owner, as I see it, is that all the "modular repairs" must be done under warranty. As soon as you are out of warranty, modular repair will turn on you. You will have to throw your car away, like you do with an old water heater.
And at the central location, it could even be feasible and cost effective to refloat the solder on the bad computer boards.
It's really of no benefit to the car owner if his modular transmission can be swapped out in 1/2 hour when perhaps all he needed was a cleaned up valve body in the first place.
Be careful what you wish for, is my advice.
(We do have two refurbed iPads here. )
I bought him lunch that day.
Ah, Steve, so now you've moved up to the "modular car", but literally? I've always been a fan of the recycled car idea--you drive it under warranty, then turn it in to the factory at a set date for another one.
Still, those off lease cars have to end up somewhere!