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TroyT wrote:
I contacted our local High School Career Center and they will not accept personal cars for students to learn on. They are quoting Uniformity .....
It is not so much as
uniformity as the lesson plan.
My younger brother teaches Automotive at a local junior college and I asked him why younger kids are not working on older cars. He said that the school discovered that none of our old cars fit the what is taught to work on modern cars. Remember the purpose of the school to train the students for a job in a dealership and make a living.
What modern car has a carburetor?
What modern car has drum brakes that need adjusting to avoid pulling or drag?
What modern car has a distributor you can work on?
Points? Condensers? Use of a timing light? Dwell meter?
I could go on and on.
Instead it is all about the re-programming the car's computer chip. Forget about repairing anything, just replace the bad module with a new module. With the average hourly repair rate of $100 you don't fool around with repairs, you just throw new parts at it. Not like back in the day.
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