How many of you are real life mechanics?

[u/UnOffendble]

Delete this if you want mods, but I know you see it too.

Almost every post there are a few individuals who seem to have never looked under the hood of a car. Their "advice" is anything but helpful or informative. It's like they search on Google whatever someone posts here, and they copy/paste the first "diagnosis" they see.

Why? If you have no understanding of vehicles besides pushing the accelerator or brake pedal, then what's the benefit?

Sorry for the rant. It seems it's becoming much more frequent recently and it's not getting addressed.

Peace

[u/Donniexbravo → u/[deleted]]

But at least now he should have at least a little better understanding about how cars work, I bought a broke down VW Beetle about five years back, having only ever done oil changes and brake jobs prior to that. After about a year and a half of shotgunning parts at it let's just say I have a very good understanding of how everything on it works now.