ABS and Traction Control Lights

johnnyroper

somech wrote: »

city and guilds was hard work i was trained the hard way in a ford dealership (lots of sweeping and tea making before being let loose on customers cars) live in gbury and just opened a small garage in bwater bloody hard graft but getting there:) i would never work for anyone else again theres just too many cowboys out there:mad:

C&G was bloody hard,that is why so frustrating when some people these days have got easy nvq and give everyone a bad name.
there are too many cowboys around,these were the main reasons i got out of the trade.
in WSM myself but lived in bwater for 6 months after moving down from mids.

TiTheRev

It may have changed since your day boys, as our trainees do 5years training before they are classed 'VW approved', they don't work on their own until their 4th year, and they do on the job training with college lecturers coming to assess them at work.

all of this equipment is'nt worth 20pence if the techie using it is rubbish.

Totally agree with that, but all our techs are trained on the specifics of the system we use, and it does a bit more than just the downloads for updates/keys ets as you elude to, that's a bit of a rudimentary comparison. There's no way you can compare a £400 one-size-fits-all Snap-off version with a 20k job specific system.