Comment by deelowe
2 days ago
My brother is a mechanic and he definitely goes on technet to review a checklist when doing diagnostics. Especially on cars he doesn't see a ton
2 days ago
My brother is a mechanic and he definitely goes on technet to review a checklist when doing diagnostics. Especially on cars he doesn't see a ton
I don't know about the name "technet" in particular but there are services that aggregate technical service bulletins released by car manufacturers to make them more easily available to independent (non-dealer) mechanics.
It's more than just service bulletins. It aggregates service bulletins as well as common failures, steps to diagnose, and common repair procedures. Most of the data is via 3rd party repair centers as dealers quit sharing this data ages ago. Shops across the country use it to generate estimates and pay their techs. This ensures all work gets logged and that diags and standard procedures improve over time.
What is Technet? I've googled it, but there are just a bunch of generic sites.
I don't know if that's an official term, I think it might refer to a legacy platform that doesn't exist any longer. It's a software package that aggregates common failures and repair procedures across 3rd party repair shops. They use it to do estimates and pay their techs as the techs are on contract and paid per the job.
Yeah, how can this take possibly be on HN when this approach works on software. We even manufacture the population samples ourselves (fuzzing).