Anything for a London Car Maintanance Short Course

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I have looked in Floodlight and Hotcourses. The only Car Maintances Short Course I can find is on in Sutton, May next year. It is so cheap at £50 I doublt it is any good. I dont want to wait until then.

I want to know more about car. I have aspergers syndreome previously known as engineer syndrome. You think I am ganna let no NT have the fun while I pay for the privilage.

I have a $600 portable handhelld computer that can read error codes and get real time data from all the sensors on cars. My car would not start one day after me working on it. I hook the computer and it told me the Map sensor error (I think it reads pressure in the engine to help calculate fuel air ratio). I notice its plug was broke and would not snap so I bought a new one at the dealership for $20. In the US
a mechanic might charge $60 /hr with a 2 hour minium. Though when I broke down on the road I have been charged zero for simple repairs.

thats great themachine1!! ! the only problem with OBDI and OBDII code readers is that u have to look up on a computer or the manual the computer came with.

aspie_chav, have you looked online on websites from local or community colleges??? some might have some technical car care courses or even a vocational school.

it dont hurt to look around or even suggest a course to the school admin. (that could help you as well as other people who want to learn more about their car's inner workings.)

when i was in 6th grade Ictually took a summer school course that was held at a technical school for about 3 weeks. I enjoyed it and went back to the same school 3 years later and took building and grounds maintenance. I also had the advantage because my dad has a backround in heavy and light vehicles and been helping him with them even before I took the course.

you may laso want to do is go to a garage at random and ask a mechianic or 2 about were they went and how much they spent and how long it took them to get ASE (usa) or other certifications to work on cars.

good luck

it is hopeless, most of them are just for fulltime teenages. I willing to pay good money, willing to take leave, and willing to travel to get to one, I still cant find owt.

Error code? I have car, not a computer; It doesn’t give error codes.

sorry if confused you there with the obd code thing, some computers (the handheld thing you plug into car) gives you a code that you have to look up(i guess im thinking of the older versions of the obd scan tool.

Where do I pug it into, the sigerette lighter? I know enough about cars to know a machine cannot know what is wrong with a car by plugin a computer to it. It might be detect broken electronics but that is all. I could do the same with an oldfashon multi-meter.

It cannot tell you when the cambelt, the brake discs/pads or the catilist needs replacying/fixing.

Buy an old Alfa 33 and use it as your everyday car for a year.

They are great fun to drive but need a lot of care and attention, so you won't have any choice but to learn.

Join the owner's club (AROC) and use their forums to ask technical questions.

The great thing with 33s is that they're dirt cheap, so even if you do bodge something and get it wrong, it won't matter too much because the car will be worth next to nothing anyway!

to plug in a OBD scan tool to the car, the car should have a plug under dashboard near emergancy brake pedal or hood release, this plug outlet should look like one of them big serial ports(looks like that used on old printers and monitors) the tool you have that can tell you about your car i have no idea what model it is.

its been a while since i have had to plug a car into a handheld OBD code scanner, many trucks and cars have an onboard scanner (driver info center) like seen on vehicles made in 2003 and newer.

I don't know if all new cars have it, but my one doesn't have it.

Your older ford escorts may have the computer interface plug under the hood.

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It will have 8 female connectors for male spade terminales in the pattern shown above
I guess its called Ford OBD I and I have allways found them under the hood on the driver side or the firewall.