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Hello, I hope that I would be welcome here as I am Not a technician professionally now. But I was one in a previous life. I call that live, “The 90s”
I graduated in Jan. 91 from an Automotive tech school in Phoenix az. that out for 3 schools to choose from.(Other two were UTI and AAI and are still going strong) I pick the one that turned out to be on the cusp of going out of business when I started. They managed to stay open long enough for me to get my degree and close a few months later. So much for ever being able to go back for follow up courses.
I took off after graduating to Radford Va to go work for a friend’s buddy that owned a very neat full service shop, with dreams of getting into NASCAR. This shop was where I did my best learning. I was the chassis and brakes guy. I really enjoyed it and was there for 2 years and became close friends with the owner of that shop. I still will talk to him today. He knew so much about chassis suspension and brakes. It was really something that I found so much interest in and got to take it into racing for a time.
I moved back to Phoenix after that 2 years in Va. for a few reasons one being Family. I worked at quite a few shops in the bigger city and it just was never good experiences and very hard to make a decent living. So I moved into being a mechanic in the golf course maintenance equipment area. I really enjoyed that. But I still did quite a bit of automotive side work. By the end of the 90s I had fell onto some health issues that i just could not be a full time wrench anymore and moved into the service manager position at a shop. That shop close and went to another one. then just moved on to other things. That was 2001. So I was full time out of the business at that point. Still doing things on the side at my home and for many years. helping a friend out that ran a shop doing front end alignments and brakes part time. That was about it.
I have tried every now and then to get on at a shop to be a service advisory. but No one will give me a chance. Say I have been out of the business for too long. So whatever.
I do allot at my home. I have a Hunter alignment machine in my garage, as you can see in my avatar.. It is allot of fun. I really enjoy doing alignments. really anything suspension. I would have loved to have had my own Chassis performance shop. But just never could get something like that going.
So I hope I can jump in with you guys.
Happy Motoring