I went from not knowing a single part in a car to be able to repair my own and do my own oil change, i also know every part in a engine and what they do together, that's all i need to know, as for repairing parts it is another story, i think in most cases you would replace them rather than repair. Originally posted by crztrucker57:You sure can, by learning the components of the vehicle and seeing how bad parts affect handling, as well as how bad parts affect the running of the car.Įxactly, knowing parts and how they work together is essentially the most important step and this game will teach you that. This is a fun game, it depicts working on cars better than any other game I have played to far, but it is not an educational tool, and that is nothing it can be blamed for at all. Most times you will need a diagnostic computer, and while there are adapters that enable you to use your smartphone for some diagnostics, it still takes experience to 'guess' what might have caused those errorcodes stored in the ECU. I'm into cars for 30 years now, and when I started out, cars still where quite fixable with only some basic tools and knowledge, but any modern car from the last 15 years is technically well beyond what you can fix an the roadside, except some very basic problems like blown fuses, loose pins and stuff.

This will not help much when you are stranded on the roadside, it simply takes real world experience working on cars to get an idea what might be wrong, if it's not totally obvious, and that still does not help much, unless you've got your tools and some spareparts with you. Sure, you can learn how things work in general, but that is about it.

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