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Re:Women Who Code Closing by drjasonharrison on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:26PM (#40082172)
I'm addition to the classes and apprenticeships, there are "how to fix it" videos, articles, books etc.

Low income neighbourhoods used to have a higher use of the Hays manuals for car repair. (this is something I read long ago and and I don't know if the manuals are still being published.)

Very few who learned to change their own oil and filters went on to become car mechanics.

Re:Women Who Code Closing by hot_gril on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:56PM (#40082380)
I'd never even heard of these manuals. Wish I bought this instead of looking at YouTube for wiring info: https://haynes.com/en-us/ford/crown-victoria/1992-2011
Re:Women Who Code Closing by rpcope1 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @11:05PM (#40083082)
As the sibling comment mentions, the FSM will be a much better resource for this. It's worth having a Haynes or Chilton, since they're cheap and sometimes have different approaches, but the FSM is really the best source of truth (most of the time).
Re:Women Who Code Closing by hot_gril on Friday April 19, 2024 @12:14AM (#40083372)
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind as I'll most likely have to figure out what that clunking noise is pretty soon.
Re:Women Who Code Closing by buescher on Thursday April 18, 2024 @09:27PM (#40082562)
Factory service manuals are even better and not prohibitively expensive, especially used copies for popular models.
Re:Women Who Code Closing by rufus_foreman on Thursday April 18, 2024 @08:53PM (#40082363)
>> Low income neighbourhoods used to have a higher use of the Hays manuals for car repair

I used to borrow them from the library when I was still working on my own car. I'm sure they were some of the most borrowed items.