The Significance of A6

Hey everybody, I’m Dave Hobbs, you’re L1 Test Prep Instructor. I have 15 years experience as an independent repair shop technician and have been a hotline adviser, field engineer, and technical trainer for a major automotive parts supplier for the past 20 years.

In the not so distant past those in the field of auto repair were called mechanics or even  ‘grease monkeys’ by the motoring public.  Those were days when all the technical information for servicing automobiles of that era could be contained in books totally around 5,000 pages. Thanks in large to electronic content on today’s vehicles the required amount of information necessary to repair today’s complex vehicles is close to 100 times what was required in the not so distant past. Today professionals in the business are afforded the title ‘technician.’  The most obvious sign to the motoring public that a service professional has elevated from mechanic status to technician are ASE credentials.  ASE certification for electrical (A6) displays to vehicle owners that the technician working on their vehicle’s electronic / electrical systems possesses a firm understanding of the dozens of electronic modules, hundreds of connectors and close to a mile of wiring contained in today’s automobile.

Dave Hobbs