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Originally Posted by Graham
There was that recent study that said that electric cars would cause a greater demand for mechanics.
The reason given, was that many buyers will put off buying a new car because they realize that their next car will have to be an electric car. In th emeantime, they will continue to dive their ICE cars and they will need more repairs as they age.
In a way, even now, we have a problem. Technicians are trained to repair the current overly electronic cars. They plug them into a computer that tells them what it thinks is wrong. Those technicians are not much like the old school mechanics.
Where we live, I am afraid to take my 123 or 107 in for a repair so end up doing most jobs myself. Regular indies here know domestic cars, but not old Benzes. And at a dealer, besides cost, they don't know what to do because there is nowhere on my old cars to plug their computer into  |
Yes I was around when the truly old time mechanics phased out. The mechanics that replaced them would not be cognizant of many tricks of the trade they used. For example the good ones had developed amazing intuition on what the problem probably was. There was never a charge for diagnostics.
I personally feel the expectation of being overbilled for a shop repair is semi justified. I do realize that everyone has to make a living at the same time. Yet many of the bills are way past what they should be in reality. The only satisfaction I see if it is even that. Some service facilities have basically no customers anymore. Down from eight bays and eight mechanics in one case locally I am aware of. To just two mechanics working there now. .In just the last three years.
12-24-2018, 03:56 PM
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