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Your Well Trained Technician At Alaska Spring and Performance

Posted October 6, 2011 10:30 AM

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When your van breaks down, or just needs some routine service, you might get a little nervous. Your car’s so important to your life in Fort Richardson, you need to back on the road as soon as possible – with the problem fixed right the first time.

If you’ve ever checked into some of the technician training Alaska Spring and Performance professionals receive, you may be surprised at how much knowledge and skill goes into diagnosing and repairing a modern car. Let me give you some perspective. Today there are four cylinder engines that make more power than the V-8’s in luxury cars twenty years ago. I mean a new V-6 Toyota Camry could beat Sonny Crocket’s Ferrari in a race to sixty.

Your Well Trained Technician At Alaska Spring and Performance

Our engines are more and more powerful and at the same time their fuel economy keeps inching up – even with steep Fort Richardson gas prices. And they’re so reliable. This is all due to engineering. But the advances come at the price of simplicity. The modern cars driving around Fort Richardson roads are so much more complex from a mechanical standpoint that it makes your head spin – not to mention the electronics.

Some cars have several networked computers controlling most of the engine functions and many other vehicle functions as well. Fort Richardson motorists take all of this sophistication for granted – but somebody has to fix it when it breaks. It’s a real challenge for Alaska Spring and Performance technicians to keep up, but we work hard to stay ahead of the technology. It requires a high level of commitment on the part of the technician and the Fort Richardson service center as well.

In addition to the training, there’s the financial commitment to purchase the diagnostic and repair tools. Alaska Spring and Performance technicians receive training through a combination of formal classroom training, training provided at Alaska Spring and Performance by parts and equipment manufacturers, on-line courses and home study courses.

There are many independent certifications available at Alaska Spring and Performance all the way up to Master Technician. The ability to repair your van requires a strong combination of training and resources. No one can know everything, so Fort Richardson auto service centers subscribe to data services, technical libraries and even on-line communities that can help them when they run into a difficult problem.

It’s like those medical diagnosis shows on TV. Here are the symptoms – what’s the diagnosis and treatment? Diagnosis is every bit as much an art as a science. At Alaska Spring and Performance, we want everything to be simple, straightforward and cheap – but sometimes it just isn’t.

So try to be more relaxed next time you bring us your van. You’re in good hands.


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