Do all our respected Tuners hold
Is there a formal Qualification?
Obviously bags of experiance count for more than a piece of paper.
I ask because my son and heir wants to head in this direction [currently taking options at school]

 

There are, of course, formal qualifications in motor vehicle studies. Examining bodies such as City&Guilds offer courses and you can follow an NVQ whilst working or study for a GNVQ full or part time at a college of FE. Entry level courses are also available and some schools offer these eg WJEC Motor Vehicle Studies (I've taught this as a pathway for groups of disaffected yr 11's at Barking college of FE)
Your lad needs to concentrate on maths, IT, English and a science (physics?) It's a long road, but he could go all the way to degree level where, if you're lucky, you could be sponsored by one of the major motor manufacturers!
Good luck to him. Subtle encouragement, understanding and support and he shouldn't finish up like the little toe rags I teach!
JohnD

 

John, whereabouts do you teach?? i used to go to Hall Mead

 

My Son wants to go to Uni to do an Engineering degree with a Motosport module, I was interested to know where all the knowledgable tuners started

 

So do I take it that none of our Tuners have any qualifications?
Not even a certificate for swimming a width!!!
Seriously guys trying to give my son some career guidance

 

you may find most tuners started as a mechanic in a garage or there own garage and just took a interest in tuning a specific type of performance car then built demo cars or modifiyed there own and built up a reputation for being good and knowing what works on the types of car/engines and then bought mapping stuff/dynos and learnt the best setups/power curves etc etc for there chosen performance car. i think in this type of field its not how many bits of paper you have to say you can do A,B and C but time and experience setting up cars and engines and building your reputation and name as being **** hot at what you do.

i could just be talking crap like i dont know

 

second the above know plenty of people with the papers I wouldn't trust with my wagon. Local specialist much better less pieces of paper though.

 

Experiance is esential of course

I am interested in this as my son is hoping to Wiltshire Uni which basis its Engineering course out of Castle Combe

Zak at Mocom suggested this route for Robbie

 

There was a link to a part-time course run by an American outfit over here !
Try a search ?
Sorry can't be more help, but it was quite recent...

HTH

DunxC

 

i did an apprenticeship as a wagon fitter. 3 years at tech, and 2 years post college. easy to do. most colleges do a level 2 in cars. with me doin wagons i got nvq 3

 

I did a mechanical engineering apprenticeship in the drawing office of an engineering firm that produced gas turbines/blowers, albeit industrial but served as a good grounding.
The experience was built up from modifying my own cars over the years and took the plunge to start Mocom Racing after not being satisfied with 'experts' at more established tuning companies, only wish I'd done it sooner!