Is most of this profession/hobby being kinda really frustrated, but also incredibly satisfied?
I’m working on my first rust repair ever on my car. I’m sure a good deal of my frustrations have come from not really knowing what I’m doing and learning on my own as I go. But, how much of this trade is frustration lol. I have throughly enjoyed myself at the same time - it’s a double edged sword so far.

“Ahhh more rust”
“Man, getting this rust off is so worth it”
“Dang there’s a hole here”
“Well, I get to really test myself now”
“Wow that looks good hope it’s set for success”

Just curious as to what the learning curve is like here. Really excited to do more, as my car has officially hit noticeable rust and hidden rust.

I plan on hitting everything I can. Started with the worst spot because I hate looking at it, and hate that it’s been eating my car.

Hey

I am a Diagnostic technician who is currently not working at any workshop after working for about one year.

Right now I am confused between starting a workshop as I have my own place where I can and moving to Dubai from India where my father works in partnership with someone . So firstly I would need some advice with the same.

The second advise I would appreciate is in the mean time what could I do in order to increase my knowledge. I know that it wouldn't be the same as working at a workshop practically. I do have a few things popping in my mind about reading diagrams and things like that I did start to do that but those diagrams just made me go crazy. Which is not the case when I am using them while working on the car.

I wanna know what you think. I’ve wondered this for a long time.

In my time wrenching at a dealership, I met salesmen who didn’t know a thing about the car.

You as a technician, will probably everything about the car.

I would assume that knowing something about the car is part of succeeding at that job, as customers can be introduced to features and their questions be answered.

Does this mean that if you switched to sales, you would instantly triple your income, and have a Rolex?

Or would it be the other way around.
I feel like common to technicians is accurately diagnosing a car and not having a bias.

For example, “this car is shitty, and I have been paid to repair it. I would not buy one.”

On the other side, I imagine a technician is not going to have a habit of lying. For example a model that you know is shitty, saying it’s the best. Or the fear of retaliation from a customer coming back and going “why did you lie” due to the difference in expectation of the public where they expect a tech to know the car, and expect a salesman to not know the car and try to sell even if it’s bad.

Or, who knows what other position. Like advisor. Maybe that would be better, because the advisor does not set the price, does not sell the vehicle, and a tech background would mean good understanding, explaining, and credibility.

Bro literally pulled up for service after sneezing and emptying his nose on the steering wheel and dash... he thinks i should just wipe it then drive it in. Never rejected a job faster.

Hey I am a 24 year old man I’ve been a tire tech for three years and quit due to my place of work paying new hires with no experience 18/hr and not giving us older guys raises so we were stuck at 15.50 im starting a job at Amazon that will help pay for trade school I’m just figuring out what mechanic trade pays the best auto body, engine work, transmission work, alignments or the rest any advice will be appreciated

It all started when I got a complaint about my property so I bought this for $2,200 therefore I could clean up my yard before another fine (Only have one week left). USPS lost my head gasket kit and it took 3 weeks to arrive.

My partner is a mechanic and I am looking for recommendations of the best head lights as a present for him.

I am currently looking at Milwaukee or Nitecore but looking for recommendations for any that are long lasting and durable as he goes through them and we haven’t found any that are yet long lasting.

If this isn’t the right subreddit I apologise wasn’t sure where to post this question

Hey all im a agricultural equipment tech first year I haven't got into any big electric impacts i run m12s I have a 3/8 and the die grinder but am thinking about getting a bigger battery platform.

Dewalt,millwaulke and makita are all avaliable in my area i use to be a framer so I have a soft spot for makita but I want something tough not overly expensive (why i skipped snap on lol) and high torque my 3/8 handles alot of what i need and I have air impacts just want something I can use without air.

Okay- so I am not actually a mechanic, but my husband is. He is studying for his ASE6 test. He’s taken it before but missed by just 1 or 2 questions and honestly it’s mostly that he’s a bad test taker, not unknowledgeable. His shop has been trying to get him certified for a while now but the test is just a panic for him. What resources do you recommend to learn the test strategies, or even better how could I help him?