What is the best way to become Honda mechanic to work at a Honda dealership?

I have no mechanic experience and live near Los angeles and becoming a Honda or Acura mechanic is my dream.|||You should try getting into an Automotive School/Training institution. I do know that like the prior poster said that it is flat rate, and they usually hire or should I say over hire during the slow time of the year. Which means you can stay for 8 hours and get paid for 2. Until you get to know the other technicians,service writers and managers it's going to be tough. In the flat rate world it's dog eat dog, but if you show your eager to learn, on time and can meet or beat the times given on the cars they give you, your dream can easily come true. I remember when I first started, staying 8 hours and getting paid for 1.5, but when the busy time of year came around on a good day I did 18 hours in an 8 hour shift. They no longer have any union dealerships in S.F. My advice to you is get some ASE certifications, find a shop that pays hourly, then apply for Honda once you get a feel for the trade and the grease! Once you do become employed by Honda most of the training is done online, with testing which allows you to advance in pay and Tech. ranking.Good luck and hope this helps|||Why not go around Honda mechanics in your local area and ask them , plus call up the schools or colleges etc that teach auto mechanics and auto tech courses and ask them , also go chat to a auto trade school councillor or a career councillor etc.





You could go to the main library by you and look up the auto trades books and auto trade tech schools etc and also look up Honda and find out more insight into where ppl train and how Honda thinks employee or hiring wise etc.





Also you could try to find a shop that might hire you as general helper or assistant etc and even if you do it part time or volunteer you could then gain experience , plus taking a course will offer you on hands experience and lead to in shop training etc.








Hope that helps and best of luck.By the way in my opinion the best talent or trait to have is self confidence and determination , plus patience and the willingness to learn and take on knew challenges bec employees look for those qualities and also greatly value reliable employees , also being a team member and hard worker etc.|||I did that for 9 months once. Loved it. The parts manager had a wheel standing pro street big block IROC and his brother who was a fellow tech had a wheel standing '70 Chevelle SS. Both in the high 9's.


One of the service advisers had a turbo Civic that he bought from a college professor that designed and built it. This was around 1994 before anyone was doing this mind you. It ran low 14's.





Call a local dealer and ask. Alot of them have a specific program that they offer. My tenure came from a degree in automotive technology and prior experience. I went through multiple interviews and drug tests.





The only reason I ended it with my Honda dealer job is because I was hired at flat rate and they over hired so I was basically standing around for 6 out of 8 hours staring at the waiting list hoping another car came in and it was a good paying one. If it was a 2 hour job on 1 car, I got paid only 2 hours after being there for 8. Atleast I had access to there car wash and detailing stuff. My Camaro sure looked good those 9 months. I starved alot though.





I hate unions but this dealer wasn't union which may have helped me but non the less, I still hate unions, I just got a better non union job doing the same thing I LOVE. Fixing car's!





I also want to say that the guys on the 9-5 shift had been there from 5 years to 25 years. Meaning there wasn't much turn around which is good....but bad for me since I would never see that shift where the money was and I didn'nt have enough time to wait around with little kids and all at the time. But I would totally work at a Honda dealer again as long as I got paid for 40 hours.





You can do it! You can do anything you want!|||First thing you should have is complete at list Diploma course in **Automobile Mechanic** for Theoretical knowledge, after the course somehow join as an unpaid apprentice in Authorised Honda Service Center, for piratical experiences.


the company way of replacing of spare parts, with spl tools, meters, etc; and you can take down notes or try to take photo copy of service manuals supplyed by the company..