Remember the days of the candy-colored tangerine flake streamline baby, when backyard mechanics could customize their cars? Try that nowadays, warns mechanic Chip Bissey, of J and C Auto in the Northeast.
“You’re going to wind up shorting out a computer or something like that and one cross of a wrong wire and you’re out $1,200.”
Which is why mechanics are now known as ‘techs,’ “it is a technician and not a mechanic and they will be hitting enter into a computer more than they will be turning a wrench.”
And they’ve become crucial players for the Delaware Valley auto dealers, according to their association executive director Kevin Mazzucola.
“That’s why it’s so vital that these techs come up through the ranks and replace those that are getting older.”…
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