How do they match: Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics

  • Used Car Make Ready Mechanic

  • Plan work procedures, using charts, technical manuals, and experience.
  • Align wheels, axles, frames, torsion bars, and steering mechanisms of automobiles, using special alignment equipment and wheel-balancing machines.
  • Disassemble units and inspect parts for wear, using micrometers, calipers, and gauges.
  • Install, adjust, or repair hydraulic or electromagnetic automatic lift mechanisms used to raise and lower automobile windows, seats, and tops.
  • Test drive vehicles and test components and systems, using equipment such as infrared engine analyzers, compression gauges, and computerized diagnostic devices.
  • Troubleshoot fuel, ignition, and emissions control systems, using electronic testing equipment.

  • Plan work procedures.
  • Confer with customers or users to assess problems.