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Why Does the World Have a Shortage of Automotive Electricians?

January 24th, 2011 by autotech | No Comments | Filed in Automotive Repairs

The massive demand and the fact that the trainee numbers decreased drastically, for qualified automotive electricians particular those with the more advanced skills, has created a shortage of workers in this field.

The fact that changes in automotive technology brought along that auto electricians increasingly needs more and more advanced knowledge of sophisticated components and the working of these components.

Cause a normal school drop out not to be suitable to be trained as an auto electrician technician any more. It used to be the school dropped outs that was trained in the past to become workers in automotive industry. This is no longer the norm.

As people that’s wants to be trained as these technicians needs more advance skills and schooling now-a-days before they can be trained to be fit for these jobs. They must have a knowledge base of electronics and the working of electronic systems.

To become an advanced skilled auto electrician, you will have to undergo serious training in the understanding of these systems that is implemented into vehicles. You must have the skills and experience to work with computer diagnostic equipment.

This will be necessary for the following reasons.

* The diagnostic scan tool only supplies the technician with a default code.
* Then it is up to the technician to identify the possible cause of this defect.
* This default code can still be misleading as it can be caused by the substitution from the one defect to another.
* Therefore, the technician must understand this substitution due to the hop-technology that will try to override the defect by shifting it to a working component.
* After the real cause of the defect was identified, the technician must have the skills and knowledge to rectify the defect.

These are a few reasons why less and less people gets trained as automotive technicians, because you basically needs people with after school educations to be trained as automotive electricians in this modern world we living in.

To me this will become an even bigger problem in the future as the amount of vehicles with this advanced technology installed into them will just increase in numbers.

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The Most Effective Guide to Finding Automotive Employment

November 24th, 2010 by autotech | No Comments | Filed in Careers Employment

Most owners find it hard to perform maintenance on their cars, especially if the damage is caused by the weather, accidents and even by vandalisms. With the increased production of vehicles every year and with the maintenance as well as repair needed by the owners and companies, the demand for automotive employment also increased. Automotive employment has been involved in the production of cars, trucks and other vehicles for several years. It is one of the most important manufacturing industries in the United States and it is also major consumer of steel, rubber, plastics and plate glass.

Automotive employments have different classifications and they are the following:

a. Automotive motorcycle technicians are the one who works with cars and small trucks to restore their original shape or even color. They should know how to replace the dented auto parts, painting over o covering nasty scratches of the car.

b. Auto service technicians are those people who repair, maintain and inspect cars and light trucks run by gasoline, electricity and alternative fuels. They also do the oil changing and tire replacement.

c. Automotive and commercial truck mechanics which uses precision diagnostic equipments to diagnose and repair vehicles. They must have a license before being employed.

d. Auto mechanics inspect, give services and repair the engines and other parts of the vehicle. They are also responsible in fixing car problems, in periodical servicing and in maintaining the condition of the cars.

e. Automotive engineers develop and improve or produce new designs, transmissions and automotive equipments through the use of computerized work aids.

f. Automotive technicians fix engines, exhaust systems, fuel lines, change oil and other fluid. They can also replace belts, hoses, fans and lubricate bolts.

g. Auto spray painters paint automobiles, machine and other products with the use of color paint materials.

h. Automotive electricians are the people who manufacture, install and fix electrical systems and equipments for motor vehicles, lights, wipers, hooters and indicators.

i. Automotive body repair fix panel-beaters, realignment of damaged and dented panels of vehicles.

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