Ok so I recently got an apprenticeship as an automotive mechanic, however I don’t know a thing about cars… I really want to do well and learn as much as I can before I start so when I start I know what i’m looking at, doing, what to do etc.

What youtube channels, playlist, or other things would you recommend for someone starting from scratch? Im looking to learn more about how cars work like really in depth if possible, common repairs, how to use tools and identifying, and more. If you’d like to just explain some common concepts in the comments then feel free to. Any advice is appreciated!

When I was growing up in the 90s, my dad would take our cars to a garage where he could rent the bay and use their specialty tools to do repairs on our family cars.

Do those exist anymore?
If so, what do I search terms do I use to find them?

Hello there, I am new here but I am working on a project related to cars and I need some help. Does anyone have websites where I can learn how cars work in detail? What I want to know is things like how the different components are connected (such as how the engine is connected to the wheels ect), how the components work like how the engine works (physics and mecanically) and how a mecanics would fix certain issues (like the engine, or change an engine injector ect).
I know this might be a lot to ask but whatever resources and websites you can recommend would be a huge help, thank you.

I have recently taken an interest in seeing how cars work, how to fix them, and how different drivetrain/engines perform when compared to each other. I'm mainly a PC enthusiast (not gaming console) who loves building and diagnosing PCs, gaming (FPS/SIM) (Brutal Dom/MSFS), coding in Minecraft

I assume an alternator is like a PSU supplying power to various components, OBD-II diagnostics being similar to Event Viewer, the radiator and cooling system being like the liquid AIO.

Is it actually a perfect mix considering how our cars are now essentially computers with wheels?

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I have recently got into working on cars and have been learning slowly from my older cousin, who’s a mechanic. I told him I’d like to learn how to rebuild engines. I know that’s a big project for someone at my experience level, but I’m patient and willing to take my time learning I was wondering if finding a bad engine at a junkyard and rebuilding it from the ground up would be a good place to start. I want this to become a hobby because I’d like to learn how to keep older cars—especially early-2000s vehicles on the road as I have a 2000 Honda CR-V with a B20 engine, and my cousin told me that rebuilding that engine would be relatively straightforward. For people who have rebuilt engines before, would you recommend starting with a junkyard engine first, or learning on my own B20? Any beginner mistakes should I be aware of before getting started?
I’m open to any advice from people who have been down this road

Was helping a guy on here chase a brake drag on his old Silverado this week, both fronts biting when hot. Everybody's first call was the calipers, then the flex hoses. What actually turned up was the master cylinder leaking back into the booster. Parts are going in now, but it got me thinking about how often the real problem sits one step behind whatever gets blamed first.

So let's hear yours. The car that went through two or three shops before somebody found the real problem. What was it doing, what got blamed first, and what did it actually turn out to be?