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So yesterday mourning there wasn't anything on. So I see on SPEED it says Consumer Product Showcase...ok cool. Well turns out it is a infomercial for UTI. Watched it for all of about ten min. I had to turn it off when they were liike"Learn to work on todays hottest cars. Work with V-tech, NOS..." at that point I went blank and couldn't believe what I just seen. WTF? Isn't this supposed to be like the top automotive school?

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UnTrainedIdiots

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School of Automotive Machinists > UTI :S

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When a school uses late night infomercials for recruiting, that should tell you something.

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This wasn't late night, it was like 9:00 A.M.

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Every person I ahve seen who has gone to those schools I have walked circles around. Wanna become a good mechanic race your daily driver and do swaps for fun. Amazing you get good at the stuff




That school is a joke. From what I hear 15 people watch one guy work on a car. Better off just working in the real world

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urinary tract infection?

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i ------- went to UTI for 4 months.. and i dont know ----.. case and point

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Well you're dumb in the first place, UTI sure isn't going to help.

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lol, i'm not dumb. i build commercial buildings for a living.. and i'm OSHA certified.. i'm just not too automotively inclined i dont guess.. I wish I knew more, but that comes w/ time and experience

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I had a friend that went there and everytime I saw him he wanted to quiz me with stupid questions like "so, do you want your rings gapped or staggerd?". :-\ Then I would come back with something like, "would you run less timing and more boost, or water injection with more timing and more boost, or both?" >:D

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I thought the same thing.



When's the new song coming out? I asked you to make one a loooooooong time ago and now Steve, you make me smile that I have a new beat to bump in "fully built Y8" (only it's not). Oh yea, I have HomeMadeJoint on my cell phone now too. Get to work Prez.



JP

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My brother went to UTI...he graduated top of his class, they put him through their Mercedes Benz Excellence courses for free and Hot Rod school. Mercedes of Palm Springs CA hired him right out of school. He's 26 now and he makes $130,000 a year. It's a great school not UnTrainedIdiots, idiots talk ---- about ---- they don't know about. If you want to know, call a dealer, they'll tell you that they prefer UTI...But Wyotech is good too.

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I work at a dealer not one of our techs went to uti or wyotech, I have one friend who went to wyotech that knows his stuff but he knew his stuff before he went. Pretty much every other person I've seen or worked with that came out of these schools were complete idiots. Your brother must be the exception.

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he makes 130k as a tech?

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Ya didnt know techs were paid has much has the people who design the cars

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Well he may be the exception, but...also you don't work at a Mercedes dealership...I don't need you to believe me about the 130k but figure he makes 26 dollars an hour and he flags 14-18 hours a day. Whoever here is a tech will know what flag hours are, he works 0 overtime. Also he is a team lead, with 1 trainee, he bonuses on how many hours flagged his team does and gets 1.00 an hour for every hour each person on his team flags (6 people). Also I know that he makes this much for sure because he stopped having to pay Social Security tax for the year when he hit around 90k. That was about June-July, if any of you know about taxes and federal ---- you know that once you hit that mark the government no longer takes SST out of your check and you get an 8.5% bump in pay basically! Anyway I am just trying to help you out and let you know what is possible if your are intellegent and apply yourself at UTI. Thanks (bow)

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he gets paid so much because people that buy mercedes dont know ---- about cars so they have to bring it to the dealer everytime and get raped in the ass. i think mercedes rates are like 150-160 an hour.

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I call BS. I know someone who worked at Mercedes and they only started him at $45k.

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that must be a busy ass dealership to flag 14 to 18 hours a day, what does he specialize in? Also I've never heard of the team stuff but I guess mercedes does it differently

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He probably flags that much time because mercedes rapes people's wallets by charging them for double the hours it takes to do something. His base isn't that high but with the flagged hours, etc I would believe he makes that much. That is if he flags that many hours and gets paid according to the trainee etc.

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I think he is doing alot of trans now.

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I know some diesel mechanics who make 100K+ a year, but they work 55 hour weeks.

Ferrari mechanics are salaried positions. They don't want people rushing on anything.

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I know a guy that went to ATC and has a similiar position at Mercedes and he makes serious coin. ---- I usually flag 16 hrs a day and I work on hondas. A lot of dealerships have different bonus programs for the techs. At my work if you flag over 260hrs a month you get 3.00 for every hour that month. And I know of 3 guys at my work that clear 100K as techs.

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Yes...I agree!

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that makes sense, I've seen our trans tech do multiple trannys in one day

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i thought european cars never needed to be worked on cause of the sweet german engineering, the same that started and lost two world wars????


lol :1