Diagnostic Pathways vs. Silver Bullets [RR 544]
Scott Shotton has over 25 years of technical experience in automotive repair shops. As the owner of The Driveability Guys, Scott performs mobile diagnostics and reprogramming for local repair shops in the DeKalb Illinois area as well as industry training around the United States and Canada. He was also one of the four trainers for the Illinois EPA’s vehicle emissions testing program. Scott has been an automotive instructor at Kishwaukee College since 2009. Prior to Kishwaukee College, Scott was adjunct faculty at the College of DuPage for 7 years. He has a degree in Automotive Service Technology as well as many hours of training by manufacturers and independent training entities. Scott is also recognized as an Illinois state emissions repair technician. He was also a technical trainer during his 8 year Army career. Scott has written many technical articles for Motor Age and Gears magazines. Scott became an ASE Subject Matter Expert (SME) in 2017. Scott currently maintains 21 ASE certifications including Master Automotive Technician, Master Truck Technician, A9, L1, L2, L3, Alternate Fuels and more. Scott’s previous episodes https://remarkableresults.biz/?s=scott+shotton (HERE). Matt Fanslow is the diagnostic tech/shop manager at Riverside Automotive in Red Wing, MN. His primary responsibilities are to diagnose driveability and electrical/electronic issues, and perform most all programming, coding, initializing, adoptions, etc. Basically, if it needs to be figured out or has wires, it goes to Matt. He’s been a tech since 1996. Matt is also a subject matter expert for ASE and has instructed at Vision Hi-Tech Training and Expo. Matt has participated on 18 ASE technical committees for the ASE Practice Test, A6, A7, A8, and L1 tests. He’s also done case studies for Standard Motor Products. Fanslow’s goal is to do everything in his power to improve the overall level of professionalism within the automotive and light truck repair trade and also raise the level of its public image. Matt Fanslow’s Previous Episodes https://remarkableresults.biz/?s=%22fanslow%22 (HERE). Key Talking Points: Podcast episode https://remarkableresults.biz/remarkable-results-radio-podcast/e513/ (RR 513) with Scott Shotton on Silver bullets In general, Silver Bullets don’t sit well with Matt Matt believes there is a loss in ‘pathing’ in diagnosing todaySilver Bullets should be a piece of your discover processes He believes they should be at the end of discover Pattern failures allow you to hit a high percentage You must learn how to process data you received by a scan tool data stream, scopes etcData to lead you to a root cause Training and networking will help you without going to a data base (resource) Scott: “If you know how it (supposed to) works, you can fix it”He believes you need to do your research early in the process with the data bases Matt, much learning occurred late at night on forum chatYou can get to reliant on the bullets When things don’t’ go your way where do you go, what do you fall back on?Likened to GPS and follow the instructions and it takes you there. If you lose signal or road construction you need to rely on instincts, topography to get to the destination Matt realizes that a blended approach to pathing, inherent knowledge, and data research is what he uses every day Data banks or silver bullets are an approach says, ScottPlug in a scan tool, record the data and use it as another tool for your research Matt says if you use a bullet, ask how you could have gotten there on your own The longer Scott does this the less he relies on TSBs and Data Bases because he has developed a skill set to diag the car Some solutions don’t tell you why There are some vehicles that you are not going to fix Research and learn and make it part of your diagnostic process Solutions can come from your network When you look at the top 3 solutions. Consider how you could have come up with them It is training, networking and...