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.

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

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


  Congratulations and welcome aboard Scott.

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

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


Everytime I turn it on I want to turn it back off and set it on fire. 

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

Welcome back Scott

Looking forward to doing some CSIing with you

Welcome back, Scott.  It's great to see your name back on the board