Where to start....Well My Name is Scott and I am the shop foreman of a small independent European repair shop.  I am 31 and just had my first child a little over 3 months ago.  I have always had a love for cars, but am relatively new to the Automotive Repair world.  I have only been working as a technician for about 5-6 years now.  I was in the military for 9 years and after serving a couple of tours over seas, decided it was time to get out and stop getting shot at.  Man I really don't miss that.  I realized I was behind the learning curve by starting a new career in a field most of it's employee's starting doing with their fathers and while they were still in High School.  None the less it excited me and I decided to pursue my passion for cars and learn how they really worked.  Besides how hard could it be......right.....well I guess that depends on how deep down the rabbit hole you really want to go.  I soon realized that replacing the parts was the easy part.  I do tend to get bored easy, so there had to be more to keep me in this field.  And then I started to discover how in depth the systems of modern automobiles could go.  I was starting to become intrigued and wanted to further my knowledge.  So I put down the beers and started spending my evenings on the web and in books and watching video's on everything I could find.  Sadly, or not so sadly, I am still doing it almost 6 years later.  I truly want to know as much as I can possibly fit inside this brain of mine.

Along the way I have had to mostly teach myself, as I have had a lack of proper guidance along the way.  So now with a newborn son being a good reason to sell my motorcycle I am able to purchase a PicoScope and really start a new era of education for myself.  I haven't been this excited about something in a long time and truly look forward to learning as much as I possibly can about Creative LSD.  I have been mostly reading post and watching YouTube video's on how to properly use a lab scope and attempting to use the Snap-On Verus that my shop currently owns.  It's been a slow process due to the poor excuse of a scope Snap-On makes.  I hate to say it, but I am extremely disappointed with their scopes and I have been extremely aggravated while trying to use it.  I'm sure that is partly due to me being inexperienced with using a scope, but after just playing with the Pico software, I realize it is partly due to the equipment I was using.

My specialty is BMW and I have been working with Mercedes for almost 2 years now.  I'm not sure how much help I would be when it comes to helping with scope information on those, but I am a wealth of knowledge on the systems.  So if anyone needs some technical or function description on those systems, feel free to ask away.  If I don't know, I'll tell you!  I'd rather be ignorant on something than lead you in the wrong direction.  Hope I can learn and help while here.

Welcome to the World of Autonerdz Scott.

Im sure you will teach us some useful tips and tricks within time.

Kind Regards

Lee :)

I too hope that i will someday be able to give back.

Hi Scott thank you for your service and welcome aboard.
Hans

BMW Scott wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 7:45am:

just had my first child a little over 3 months ago.

  Congratulations and welcome aboard Scott.

BMW Scott wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2013 at 7:45am:

a good reason to sell my motorcycle

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That would indeed be a good reason. That's what put off my riding American for 20 years.
Welcome to LSD.  I too fight with SO scopes, and get frustrated, probably because I don't understand the control buttons. Every Time I turn the darn thing on it's like the first day of school all over again.

  Scott  Thank you for your service and welcome in What was your job in the service?

top4 wrote on Mar 5^th, 2013 at 4:35am:

What was your job in the service?

I had a few over the years.  I started as Heavy Transport, then moved on to Heavy Equipment, and lastly I joined the Infantry!

RtOne wrote on Mar 4^th, 2013 at 5:34am:

Every Time I turn the darn thing on it's like the first day of school all over again.

Everytime I turn it on I want to turn it back off and set it on fire.  [smiley=evilflame.gif]

Well it's been quite a long time since I've been on here.  Many of you know me and I'm sure there are several new members that don't.  I won't go into who I am, that's already been done, but I did want to let everyone know that I should be spending some more time on here and I'm sure much has changed and I look forward to catching up.

I sustained a shoulder injury some time ago now and it looks like I may be finally getting back to work in about a month or so...  I know that's not necessarily the best reason to go MIA, but when you don't even look under the hood of a car in this long, you kinda start drifting in other directions.  Speaking of which I have spent much of the recent time doing some small machining.  I ended up with a HF mini mill and mini lathe along with with some other tools.  So I have been spending some time improving those machines, which they need a lot of, and learning some basic machining techniques. 

Anyways, I plan on spending some more time back on here and catching up and I look forward to knocking off some of the rust and getting this brain working a little more.

BMW Scott

Welcome back Scott, Be sure to check  out the CSI board in the Pico group area, Lots of good stuff happening on there!

Good to see you back around here, Scott.  I was wondering where you had gone! :)

Welcome back Scott :)

Looking forward to doing some CSIing with you :D

Thanks Guys,

I like the CSI section.  I look forward to reading more of them.

Welcome back, Scott.  It's great to see your name back on the board  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

Thanks Cracker, it's good to be back on here.  Looking forward to get the gears turning again. [smiley=atomic.gif]

Nice to see you back Scott, was wondering myself what happened to you.  Life happens, I understand that, lol. ;D  I have been busy myself, I have been teaching now for a little over a month and it keeps me busy, but I still find time to Pico, :D ;D  Glad your back.

Bus, thanks.  Teaching huh?  That's pretty cool.  What are you teaching?