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Where did you learn about cars?

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toph99

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I know there are quite a few car enthusiasts on this board, so i was wondering where you all learned about cars. I'm slowly learning through magazines, online technical articles(my favourite) and from asking questions here and on ls1.com 🙂
 
well i don't know much about new cars. but i learned all i know about classic muscle cars from my Dad.
 
Oh, I feel it starting again..

You can try HowStuffWorks.com


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<< Where did you learn about cars? >>



High school.
had 3 years of automotive repair and auto body.
I also used to read car mags alot.. and obviously my dad being a certified A mechanic, I learn from him when he works on his car, I learn from helping him.
 
Similar for me. Nothing will teach you more about cars than driving a piece of crap. Something broke off my old Accord every time the wind blew. Also, the other way to learn is by reading... everything from magazines to forums.




<< LOL, Psycho 😉

Alot of my learning came from me being too poor to pay a mechanics bill in my teenage years 😉 one of my 1st trucks I owned had the fuel pump and the master cylinder go bad, I priced them out and the places I called wanted a lot of money to repair... so instead I ended up at Checker Auto-parts and picked up the parts, (both were $11.99 with a lifetime warranty on em) and a Chiltons manual, they are not the best books but hey for a poor kid they worked great. Anyway the Fuel pump ended up being only 2 bolts and 2 fuel line's and on putting in the new one holding the push-rod up. The master cylinder was again 2 bolts and 2 brake lines. Then the need to have a friend pump while I figured out how to bleed brakes right 😉

Basically odd and end things like this happened (had to change the wheel lugs when I busted em off 4x4'n real hard 😉) but that truck was very simple to work on, (GM 350) the most simple, straighforward, and inexpensive engine I ever had. From there I just seem to have a basic understanding from what I had experienced. I've looked over that howthingswork.com and it has some really great articles, also hanging out on the forums, since the Camaro/Corvette share the same motor as me just in a different config, I hang at LS1.com for anything I need help on there. Most of it has been for Modifications, right now I'm looking into a water-injection and a few guys have done that with the same Supercharger I put on mine.

But really, if you can get an old vehicle to work on, or help a friend work on his, you'll get a feel for car mechanic's I'd say, just get yourself comfortable doing things yourself, start out with easy things, or like me stuff you needed too 😉.

I get new things that come along all the time, a few month's ago my GF's car is a Acura Integra with about 140K miles on it now, but one day her clutch would just sink to the floor, after lookin around on some sights I learned about a "Clutch Master-Cylinder" I never knew about it before as I've always had vehicles with linkage to the clutch instead. Anyway it was just low on fluid was all. So the benefit of the internet is great to have. Keep lookin, reading and askin on forums, each car type has some good forums for it. If you don't have a fear of getting into it and taking your time to do it right you'll do great 🙂 >>

 
I'd be willing to bet that everybody here that can fix their own car, also fixes anything and everything they possibly can. Toilet runs on, they fix it. Roof leaks, they fix it. Computer crashes... THEY FIX IT! "Learning about cars is the same as anything else, but it starts with the will to have at it.

Newer cars can't be screwed around with as much as the old ones, but you should still be able to tackle brakes, belts and fluid changes. You learn from the same sources as anything else. Friends, books, TV/video and now the Internet. Use the money you save by doing it yourself to buy tools. Hell, any project I do around the house seems to require more tools! Never can have enough tools or MORE POWER... aaaaarrrrrrrgh! 😉
 


<< Fiscal necessity..

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LOL i like that, i think i'm going to keep that line around 🙂 i've read everything HowStuffWorks has to offer. I am taking auto shop again this year, but the teacher is a total idiot which doesnt help. I don't have the money to get myself a car(even a piece of crap, they still need insurance and gas 😉) but i am hoping to get one sometime soon. My favourite technical site went away(AutoZine Technical School, which was here) it had great articles on everything from different forms of suspension to the counterweights used to cut down on vibrations, different kinds of induction, all sorts of good stuff. I'm hoping to find a mirror to it sometime soon
 
Its in your blood, so you eventually pick up when your a kid. Heck my sister probably knows more about cars then some of you, she makes salesmen look like morons 😀
 
"...I can fix all my new car problems too just plug in my laptop and get and clear any trouble codes I might have..."

Wow, looks like I "need" another tool! 😉
 
Ummm... I learned everything I know about how SUV's suck from NSF4. Really I researched and read, just like you'd learn about anything else. There are a tremendous amount of Internet resources out there that have information on any aspect about cars that you'd like to know.
 


<< Where did you learn about cars?

Under the hoods of my cars. >>



Yep. Grease under the fingernails and bloody knuckles. That and Chiltons and Haynes guides.
 
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