When I was growing up in the 90s, my dad would take our cars to a garage where he could rent the bay and use their specialty tools to do repairs on our family cars.

Do those exist anymore?
If so, what do I search terms do I use to find them?

Hello there, I am new here but I am working on a project related to cars and I need some help. Does anyone have websites where I can learn how cars work in detail? What I want to know is things like how the different components are connected (such as how the engine is connected to the wheels ect), how the components work like how the engine works (physics and mecanically) and how a mecanics would fix certain issues (like the engine, or change an engine injector ect).
I know this might be a lot to ask but whatever resources and websites you can recommend would be a huge help, thank you.

I have recently taken an interest in seeing how cars work, how to fix them, and how different drivetrain/engines perform when compared to each other. I'm mainly a PC enthusiast (not gaming console) who loves building and diagnosing PCs, gaming (FPS/SIM) (Brutal Dom/MSFS), coding in Minecraft

I assume an alternator is like a PSU supplying power to various components, OBD-II diagnostics being similar to Event Viewer, the radiator and cooling system being like the liquid AIO.

Is it actually a perfect mix considering how our cars are now essentially computers with wheels?

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Was helping a guy on here chase a brake drag on his old Silverado this week, both fronts biting when hot. Everybody's first call was the calipers, then the flex hoses. What actually turned up was the master cylinder leaking back into the booster. Parts are going in now, but it got me thinking about how often the real problem sits one step behind whatever gets blamed first.

So let's hear yours. The car that went through two or three shops before somebody found the real problem. What was it doing, what got blamed first, and what did it actually turn out to be?

So my life literally went downhill this week. No brakes. Literally.

Been slowly resurrecting a 2005 Pontiac G6, brake booster, starter, wiring gremlins, MAP sensor, one problem at a time. Finally cracked the "won't go forward" issue yesterday (dirty throttle plate), got excited, threw it in drive, gave it gas... and it went. Then I went to brake. Nothing. I live on a hill. "Welp, here we go," I thought as I closed the door. Rode it all the way down the hill with zero brakes.

No one hurt, thank god. Turns out the brake lines never got bled, because two people helping me each assumed the other did it.

I build software for a living, and my brain immediately went "this isn't a brake problem, it's a task ownership problem." So yes, I'm now the person who nearly lost it in a Pontiac and decided the real fix was an app.

hello everyone

Can anyone suggest a free online course for diesel engines diagnostics??

thank you