I plan on going to UTI in the next year or so, anyone have anything good to say about it? The campus ill be attending is in Norwood Mass

You wont hear anything good about it, mainly cause there isnt. Just wait for banzai to get started.

just give me $10,000 and i'll make you build a couple of motors, mine is a much better deal

search on UTI or Wyotech, I dont need to get my blood pressure up

That all sounds uhh, pretty positive... Umm so you say Wyotech is better?

You are probably better off getting a job at a private shop. The great thing about tech schools(from what I have heard), is you learn everything across the board, not just one car makers electrical, chassis, etc. systems.



Go to lincolntech, only thing is it's now a 3 year school starting up in January. Get in touch with teknics on here, he can tell you the good and the bad about tech schools.

Good deal thanks.

I have had 3 interns from UTI work at the shop, and I have fired every one. Individual experiences may vary. One of them barely spoke english. Another couldn't do coilovers on an EVO and the last one couldn't change all the fluids in an FD in under 6 hrs. All nice guys, just not mechanics. They were all within 4 weeks of graduation, and one was already hired at a Mercedes dealer

I lived in scottsdale (phx area) and literally could count the people that i know who graduated UTI w/ both of my hands.



I knew TONS of people who went to UTI.



Unless you want to work at a dealership taking it in the butt the rest of your life there are faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar better ways to waste $24k or whatever they want.

yeah, see gimme 10k, and i'll teach you how to build a rotary, mines a better deal, by far

1Revven7 knows about that place. He does not have good things to say.

i dont know about your area, but where im from the local community college has a far better program than uti and is a lot cheaper also.

guess ill look into that aswell. if anyone has other opinions please speak them id love some advice

yah that thar is good advise

I stumped a professor at the Norwood campus when I went on a tour. He didnt know what a compressor map was, and was trying to convince me I was talking about VE. I wasnt trying to stump him, I genuinely had a question about interpreting the center island on a comp map.



Then he quickly changed the subject to how he built 2000 HP speed boats.



But hey, I got a cool UTI shirt with a DSM on the back!!!

You are better off working at a private shop. You will learn so much more. Most of your private shops have master techs, or Level III tech's, and they will teach you everything. It's just hard to get into a shop not knowing ANYTHING!



My advice to you, go apply at Sears Auto Center, Pep Boys, etc. and see if you like to actually get payed to work on OTHER people's cars. I do not like it as much as I thought I would. But it pays the bills.



What's the point of going and wasting away money, and not even working at a shop, when you don't even know if you will like it.

Damn, thats actually a good idea!!!! https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683664.gif

well i built the motor, class is 15k now

search for another thread on uti. there has been a couple. i went and graduated. you will find my opinion on it there... and i do work at a dealership

Working on cars is fun, but working on other peoples pieces of **** sucks the goat.

Im sure we all realize that. The best is the odd times a wrecked car comes in. Rope holding the hood down or my fav was a new lincoln where i had to do a brake job and the right front wheel was so out of whack it dragged the tire down the road on road test. Steering wheel was out about a turn, customer didnt want that stuff fixed though. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/blink.gif

new cars are nice, cause they are new

dont get me started on my tech school experiences.



basically if it wasnt for everything i knew before going there, i would've come out knowing nothing.



I dont even tell people i went to lincoln tech because it'll make them think all the bullshit they tell you is true. I'm an A tech, and i am the sole head tech at my shop. I'm only 22 and graduated LTI in '03. I make pretty good money, could've been making a lot more but refused to work 90+hour work weeks. My shop makes about $30k a week give or take a few K, so far year-to-date to my name i have around 330-350k of personal sales. that's almost half of our current YTD total for the shop....and i work with 4 other people. If i was to go to a dealer around here i'd probably start at 18/hour and in a year or two be around 21ish/hour.



Now thats what LTI wants you to believe will happen to you when you graduate....but its not true. 99% of the people there are bums, useless, i've fired 3 LTI students in the past 4 months. If you really wanna give it a shot, follow baldy's idea start off at a basic place and let them know you want to learn, if you get in a good shop there'll be guys willing to teach you, and if youre willing to learn and watch and pay attention then youll do awesome.



but yea, speedmachine hire me i do good work! and im trying to get into doing aftermarket stuff, fixing peoples wrecks with stock **** bores me.



kevin.

apply at WELDONG!

So in all honesty the best way would be to find a small personal shop and start there? I know of a shop right down the road, but would i atleast be able to get any certification or is that not going to help at all?

What do you think you get paid on? You get paid on ASE certifications. There are 7 of them total. I don't know exact details about them, as I have never taken them.



But yes, in short you are better off working at a shop, working very hard, and working your way up, ask questions, get invovled in other parts of the car even if you don't get paid for doing the work, you are still saving money by NOT going to a tech school.

Thanks guys appreciate all the help and advice.