busjockey wrote on Apr 26
th, 2015 at 6:41pm:
sorry I didn't meet the rest of you guys.
Yeah, me too. I missed out meeting you & Superglide.
Ironically, I ran into Matt on my way outta the hotel.
bluesman wrote on Apr 26
th, 2015 at 7:04pm:
It was a great pleasure meeting my fellow Autonerdz!
Nice to meet you too. Now we just gotta convince your buddy to give Tom a call
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sneaky pete wrote on Apr 26
th, 2015 at 7:22pm:
you guys wanna list the classes you went to and a quick review.
Scot Manna's GDI was good and will be useful in the shop right away.
In my opinion, Eric Ziegler's Essential Diagnostic Steps class was misnamed. While it was good, it wasn't what I expected, and was mostly things I've already learned here and from experience. One thing is for sure, though, you will not get bored in his class.
Jesse Zacariasa's Using PIDs & Transducers for Transmissions had some surprisingly good nuggets. I used to attend transmission trade shows frequently, and the training was typically all the same silver bullet, hot line style classes that get old after awhile. Mr. Zacariasa made some fairly big leaps in judgement during some of his case studies, but I'm excited to head back to the shop to start using some of his techniques.
The only class I had to walk out of was Diagnosing Body Modules with the Scan tool. I couldn't adapt to the training style of the two instructors, and the class itself was very basic. It really is my own fault because I've seen one of the instructors on YouTube time and time again, so I don't know what made me think his live class would be any different.
The final class for me was Wayne Colonna's Transmission & Drivability Diagnostics. This was exactly what I expected, a silver bullet class, but with an exceptional handout. ATSG tends to organize their data and diagrams just the way I like to see it. It was worth the hour and a half.
sneaky pete wrote on Apr 26
th, 2015 at 7:22pm:
there is some bitching on iatn about the training.
You mean this one?
http://members.iatn.net/forums/read/msg.aspx?f=forum4&m=12548&fv=0&ar=0I find myself agreeing with a lot of what Mr. Heipp wrote, but how did he form his opinion of the training as a whole by attending only one class?