Home
What's new
Latest activity
Authors
Store
Latest reviews
Search products
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
New listings
New products
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Log in
Register
Cart
Cart
Loading…
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Search titles only
By:
Menu
Log in
Register
Navigation
Install the app
Install
More options
Change style
Contact us
Close Menu
Forums
SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
Graduated from Universal Technical Institute (UTI). Here's my take.
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Zemedici" data-source="post: 14199951" data-attributes="member: 146355"><p>Very good write up. However, from my experience (working in dealerships as parts/service position) that its equally beneficial to just apprentice/work your way up in a shop. My brother apprenticed at a shop over summer, then landed a job as a express lane technician at Nissan, and they provide the schooling to take your certs to become a full technician. My old boss (service manager) who hired all the technicians, said he got 40 applications from UTI/Wyotech grads a month, and 'which one would he rather hire - the guy who paid to get a piece of paper saying he's certified, or the guy who had been working on Fords day in and day out for 10 years to get the same paper' Not that its a stab at you, just that nowadays experience seems to be valued just as much if not more so than graduation in said program.</p><p></p><p>I was debating going myself last year, after I priced it out with OOS (out of state) tuition/housing, it was going to cost me $40,000, and that's WITHOUT the specialization (Ford,Nissan,etc) which costs more.</p><p></p><p>After you graduate, you still have to buy tools, which the technicians I worked with had $30,000 worth of tools. Granted if you're a automotive student you get 50% off at snap on, but its still a huge check to cut.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zemedici, post: 14199951, member: 146355"] Very good write up. However, from my experience (working in dealerships as parts/service position) that its equally beneficial to just apprentice/work your way up in a shop. My brother apprenticed at a shop over summer, then landed a job as a express lane technician at Nissan, and they provide the schooling to take your certs to become a full technician. My old boss (service manager) who hired all the technicians, said he got 40 applications from UTI/Wyotech grads a month, and 'which one would he rather hire - the guy who paid to get a piece of paper saying he's certified, or the guy who had been working on Fords day in and day out for 10 years to get the same paper' Not that its a stab at you, just that nowadays experience seems to be valued just as much if not more so than graduation in said program. I was debating going myself last year, after I priced it out with OOS (out of state) tuition/housing, it was going to cost me $40,000, and that's WITHOUT the specialization (Ford,Nissan,etc) which costs more. After you graduate, you still have to buy tools, which the technicians I worked with had $30,000 worth of tools. Granted if you're a automotive student you get 50% off at snap on, but its still a huge check to cut. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
Graduated from Universal Technical Institute (UTI). Here's my take.
Top