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Barry

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This one is sure to throw the cat into the pigeons. 

If someone says they only work on one particular make or model, or cars from a certain country, I’d say they aren’t a good technician. 

Sure, you can stick to one marque and know it inside you but if you have to work on something else you won’t have a clue outside basic mechanical knowledge. This is why I don’t trust any garages who are Japanese only, German only etc. 

A good tech should be able to fix anything. 

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There is always two sides of the coin, I believe in a special or at least different cars like German, UK, and European brand one should stick to their level of expertise as those cars are truly made differently instead of using Philp screws, they use star screws at a very base level. You wouldn't want to take that car with Jap or Korean specialist who will hammer the screwdriver in star crew and force open it. Trust me I have seen such car mechanics in UAE.

Apart from the base level of screws shape, they do have different engineering and if a mechanic is not well aware then it will blow up your bill. I remember having a Land Rover Discovery bit of death wobble at certain speed. First look with my usual Jap specialist gave me a long bill of diagnosing of checking everything to anything. Then with a bit of Dr. Google help, I realize it's a driveshaft U-joint that freaks out if it's not greased well in time. Bought that for 35 dhs and got it changed with a labor of 50 dhs and car was perfect in 85 dhs than huge bill of diagnosis.

1 hour ago, Barry said:

A good tech should be able to fix anything. 

 

It's a rare find, to be honest at least in this part of the world.

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I think a good analogy would be restaurants. Any restaurants that offer a ton of dishes on the menu usually at best do an OK job at all of them. 

But there are speciality restaurants that offer only a certain type of dishes, it also not uncommon to see a place offering only one dish, that's right just one dish but they do that one dish perfectly.

Same with medicine you go to certain specialists for certain aliments. A general practitioner can only diagnose and treat common problems for anything else you are referred to a specialist. 

There is a reason why the saying A jack of all trades master of none.came about. 

Not all cars are built the same or use the same parts or tech. Ok an internal combustion engine works on a certain principle, transmissions, brakes etc etc also a capable mech can handle basics, but not every detail of everycar.

 

 

 

 

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I tend to disagree with @Barry on this. No good (read, professional) technician can fix anything, and nor should he try.

It may be true that most automotive technologies are common to all cars, but there are sometimes vast differences in how some technologies are implemented on different makes- two examples being the way PID's are set up differently for ABS brakes and active suspension systems between cars of European, American, and Japanese manufacture.  

Having made a very good living out fixing peoples' cars for nearly forty years, I can confidently say that there is no way one person can know everything about these differences, and in my opinion a technician who says that he can fix anything, should be treated with a good measure of circumspection. 

 

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when a customer comes to me with any car i first of all try to understand the concern and then if i can do it then take the car in and believe me i have had a hell of a time sometimes diagnosing the fault i also have some contacts with whom i also discuss the problems and all in all its a very small car no fix return rate....

if you understand the mechanism and have the diagrams of wiring then there should be no problem to solve it and usually we get stuck at the programing side or the codings in vag cars thats almost always outsourced that way i don't have to funk up funny dollars in subscription fees for only a specific car that comes in say 4 or 5 times a year...

i have had single cylinder bikes to rolls royce at my shop...

in short i agree with @Barry on this one....

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4 hours ago, treks said:

Having made a very good living out fixing peoples' cars for nearly forty years, I can confidently say that there is no way one person can know everything about these differences, and in my opinion a technician who says that he can fix anything, should be treated with a good measure of circumspection. 

@treks my father has been working in this field since he didn't had mustache on his face and now he's bald and gray whenever I get stuck I ask him for help and believe me I have been stunned they way he leads things but things weren't like this in his working time....and yet he gets things done when asked....so it's a matter of understand and not missing the details...

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