Beginner Videos

[Alex F.]

You should do Videos for people who know nothing or Very little about the auto-World(Like Myself)

-Its basically like your regular videos except more in-depth to what your working on, its Job, Diagnosing, and what its connected to.

– I’m 14 years old, and recently stumbled upon your you-tube channel, and quickly gained large interested in the automotive world.

– Do you have any suggestions for Me or Comments? Id love to hear them.

Sincerely,
Alex from Ky.

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[Steve]

Hello Alex! I’m in Kentucky as well, although 30 years older, lol. Great that you are gaining knowledge about working on cars. I wish we had the internet when I was your age. That’s right, when I was 14, there was no such thing as the internet and cell phones was a huge object you held and used in your car if you was a millionaire, lol.

[EricTheCarGuy]

I’ve actually done a few of these videos. Here are some examples.

As for suggestions you might check out the ETCG1 channel as I’ve done quite a few videos on the industry and what to expect.

Good luck.

[Chevypower]

Hey dude,

I’m 25 now but at your age, I started my subscription to Hot Rod Magazine. I’ve always found books on the topics that interest me.

I recommend finding magazines you like as well as going to the library and borrowing every book you can find about cars. If your library is part of a district/network, use their card catalog to request books from other libraries in the network.
School libraries also tend to have a decent enough section for the young Grease Monkey.

Once you find topics that you want to learn about, visit the ETCG homepage and use the search function.

Hell, at 14, I was getting into High School shop classes for the first time. We didn’t have Auto Shop, but I took Welding & Small Gas Engines. I wasn’t a fan of Wood shop.
I ended up taking Small Engines 3 or 4 times and I took welding nearly every semester of H.S. up to spending half days in a special program at another facility attended by students from several schools regionally for VoTech trades.
Talk to your school’s career/guidance counselor or whomever helps students choose classes. My guidance counselor even scored me a few ‘Job Shadow’ opportunities wherein I went to local auto shops and their Service Managers set me up to follow different technicians around the shop for a few hours.

The other thing I did was to start looking at Tech schools, both local and across the country, to find out which program I wanted to attend.

In addition to all of that, here is a list of 3 websites that I still use when I want to learn something new:

YouTube
Wikipedia
Bing

Without those 3 websites, *I* would be a complete dumbass.

I was talking to a friend of mine yesterday about these new-fangled Constantly Variable Transmission pieces of junk. I always start with Wiki then move on to U2be. If my interest is held, I’ll Bing it for more information.

If you’re really serious about wanting to learn all about cars, buy yourself a text book.

When I went to WyoTech, we had a book called “Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach 5th edition” by Jack Erjavec.

Personally, I find it to be dry and difficult to read, but every lecture I sat through was built from the key points in the book and I still skim through it from time to time in search of that one piece of information that can’t be remembered.

Hope I’ve helped,

Jason AKA Chevypower

[Alex F.]

Hey i apprtiate the help and suggestions—–Ya im not into the internet that much—if i am its on this site for less than an hour- My friends poke fun at me all the time cause im only on xbox once a week and less than 30 minutes to watch King of The Hill

[Alex F.]

THANK YOU SO MUCH For HELPING ME OUT!—–i appritiate it im looking forward to subskribing to a car magazine, im going to get a summer-job on a rach this summer so i can pay for it my self and not feel like a bum lol…..But this has really helped me out—-My uncle is a master machanic in Upton Ky. but time are hard for him right now so i know that as a machanic i wouldnt be making much—- But as a suggestion to you Check out NEW VENTURE ON WALL STREET: its a great Christion company that teaches people to munipulate the Stalkmarket to thier advantage i thing you-or any machanic would bennifit from it.

Thank you agian

[Alex F.]

Hey I really appritiate you taking the time to Help Me out- But the videos didn’t Show up… Sorry to bother.

—On the other hand I have a Baja Worrier Mini Bike, And yestraday I took of ad cleaned what appered to be a small Cadilitic Converter/ Im getting a Job this summer and was thinking about doin replacement videos—I dont know yet though– I downloaded the Owners Manuel for it so well see wat happens

[Author]

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