You can read all the manuals and watch hours of video, but nothing beats hands-on wrench-turning experience if you want to get better at understanding how your car works. But cars, tools, and ...

As “Big Name” schools reach out to minority communities (“Syracuse’s Slide,” The Chronicle, October 2), there is bound to arise justifiable suspicion about the quality of such students. After all, ...

Auto Mechanic* Job description: Auto mechanics, also known as service technicians, mostly work in the service shop of a dealership or auto repair shop and fix vehicles for drivers by diagnosing and ...

How Mechanics Are Training To Keep Up With Rapid Tech Changes. Although I've been out of the auto repair shops for about five years now, things were swiftly changing right before I left the industry.

... and how drivers can avoid being taken for a ride. — -- intro:Have you ever gone to an auto repair shop for an oil change, only to have the mechanic say your ...

California has accelerated the thirst for electric vehicles, and as the planet warms and tax credits and subsidies continue to flow, the demand for zero-emission vehicles is surging. One report ...

An apprenticeship scheme to train Bermudian mechanics has almost guaranteed employment prospects, a business that provides training in the sector said yesterday. Fernando Oliveira, the owner of Noble ...

Chaya Milchtein holds a copy of her upcoming book 'Mechanic Shop Femme's Guide to Car Ownership.' For a lot of people, learning how to maintain their car and what question to ask their mechanic can be ...