Became a licenced Diagnostic technician today! Any others on here?

[Rmachines]

I have been a maintainanc tech for a while now, after being a "normal mechanic" for a fair few years, but im now a diagnostic tech!   Well chuffed i passed first time.   Just wonderd if there is any other techs on here at diagnostic level?

[Dolly]

what do you mean? im BMW qualified diagnostic tech, could of walked the next step up which is called senior at BM but seems to be classed as Master tech most other places like ford ect.

...but i left and opened up my place, now im everything from a Director to the tea boy and cleaner 

[Rmachines]

Im honda,  master is next level, 6 months to wait for that. 

[Dolly]

yeah you BMW run a step service tech, diag, senior, master. just to be awkard, to be a master though is hard, ill happily say i could walk the senior tests but as this point in time doing the masters would be a waste of time, i would fail lol

[CJA321]

Not long finnished my apprenticeship. level 3 diagnose and repair city and guilds.

I work for landrover so in landrover terms im level 2.  next step is senior tech or landrover level 3.

And then ofc master tech and ATA   

[Rmachines]

i did my level 3 about 4 years ago, purly because the offerd it to me, although i was already previously qualified.  good to have it though,  any one a member of IMI yet?  was thinking about it but couldnt quite figure out what they will give me for my yearly fee

[Martz]

My mate is a Master BM Tech. Gets a bit snappy when we call him Master Grease monkey though, and yes as said the level is hard (I may be wrong but there are not too many Master BM ones in the UK).

[Dolly]

theres more then there used to be, at one point it wasnt about 97 just less than 100, around 150 Dealers iirc

theres more to it than fixing cars like your tested on customer handling, and its not just the tests, your expected to know so much, and then when you do get to fault finding you get 20 minutes...

And then if you pass all that you go back to work and get all the sh!t that no one else can fix 

[danny_p]

have no idea what the various tech levels actualy mean in main dealer terms.  

have no bits of paper relating to working on cars,  but as far as working on cars go now i'm more or less banished to the office

looking at wireing diagrams and more wireing diagrams. and drawing wireing diagrams.   occasionaly they let me out into the workshop. to build an engine  or to piss about with the multi colourd spagetti rather than looking at diagrams of it.  

[westallc]

got my level 3 and then btec and went on to do my master have now left the trade and gone into mechanical engineering design etc etc i have to say the problem you get is all the crap jobs that no one could fix you get and the times they give you are shocking lol

the guy i worked with became area master tech and just traveld to other dealers when they had issues they couldnt fix or found issues that could have become recalls etc like for example the issue with the saab 900 bulk head cracking found by the other master area tech

very very clever bloke in a different league to most and a proper mechanic not none of this new fitter sh!t lol

when things broke we fixed not just replaced!!! dont see that no more mechanics is a skill that will die imo