I-Car
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So I am job hunting in a few different parts of the country. Most shops are looking for I-Car certifications, even for painter jobs.
In Michigan most job posting do not list I-Car as a requirement.
I have worked at 5 shops in the last 25 years. Nice shops not back alley shops, and probably close to 25-30 different body techs and nobody had I-Car training.
A State of Michigan license is required but it is not enforced and most tech do not have it.I am looking at some online I-car courses.
I only know the insurance companies like shops that are I-car gold. I have some I-car training because at my old work we needed so many courses to get I-car gold status. They kept my certificates when I left, I guess I could get them from I-car if I wanted them. They paid for the courses and the instructor came to our shop after hours as well as other techs from the area.
You see it in job postings because it’s tied into the shops drp contracts. The small city I’m in has zero I-Car techs and still has drp shops because the requirement isn’t really enforced here. If you have experience the bigger shops in the metro areas will hire you without I-car and pay for your training over time.
I car is a joke. If u cant pass an open book test u are retarded. Why insurance companies push for this is on me. Give me the hardest test in the world and give me a book with the answers. I car is funded by the insurance companies and those same companies share the profits with I car…… this needs to be regulated :stoned
irregardless….. It matters to a few customers. Take the test.
I don’t see why some people don’t like to continue there education. On the job training is irreplaceable, but you have to keep up with the changing technologies, different metals, where you can and cant weld on vehicles. Going to classes is the only way to know for sure that you are the best tech that you can be. These days the technology on vehicle changes so often, how would we know about things like Active Grille Shutters with out proper education.
I’m I-Car and ASE certified, and to me its just paper. But that paper is mighty marketable to employers for some odd reason. The material in the tests was pretty ridiculous for both certifications. I was lucky enough to have learned most of it on the job. Some are not that lucky and might take more from it, but ultimately they are worth having. If not to expand your knowledge, then just to be more marketable to employers or even potential customers. Get your boss to pay for it and stick it on the wall in the office. lol
I like icar for proper structural and sectioning procedures that follow oem standards,how many of us have seen sub standard repairs over the years?Lets face it there are many techs who do things in a shop that don’t know how to do it properly,or they just don’t know better or “I have been doing this for years and never had a problem”
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