Originally Posted by hondatech
A/C work isn't hard after you've done it awhile, it's just the begining learning curve is a little hard. Theory is all great and what not but you need experience to tell you what to do if you have a problem. I thought after taking the class at the college and going through Honda's factory training I knew how to fix A/C systems good. I was WRONG.
It took a good two summers to really get it down to a profitable every day science without asking for help. I still see guys coming into the dealer who have an A/C license and claim to be a good A/C tech and have one or two cars a summer totally stump them. You have to really pay attention to the details of what the system's doing and work in a shop with decent equipment.
It's the electricial systems that stump me...have you ever tried to fix a mercedes electrical problem? Mitchell has like 80 pages of pulling out this, testing that, pulling a fuse here, tapping into there, jumping here...oh god, it was so bad, even my teacher waved the white flag on that one. It would have taken at least half a day to run through all the tests.