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My wife's cousin who works in tech said 'you guys just fix broken stuff, right?'
It hit different because he was talking about his own car, a 2022 Tesla with a dented quarter panel. I told him it's not just swapping parts anymore, you're dealing with sensors, cameras, and calibrations. How do you explain the real skill in our trade to someone who doesn't get it?
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jamesf2923d agoTop Commenter
Honestly, I used to have that same simple view of the work. Then my buddy's new truck needed a bumper after a fender bender. It wasn't just a bolt-on job. We spent half a day just getting all the parking sensors and the blind spot monitor to talk to the computer again. The part is the easy bit now. It's all the stuff that makes the car think that takes real know-how. You're basically a mechanic and an IT guy rolled into one.
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paulw5323d agoMost Upvoted
Yeah that's so true now. It's like you need a degree in computer science just to change a light bulb lol.
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the_drew23d ago
Exactly. Jamesf29 is right about the real work being in the tech. Cars are just computers on wheels now.
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