new season new headaches

I'm grasping at a comment made on another thread by Howie.  We are once again at the time where Remote Starts dominate the northern climates.  So, with the weather turning colder we are also bombarded by a slew of idiots trying to install one in their own vehicle.  The thought of these idiots, and I call them idiots as they pertain to this industry, is that they are good at their own jobs and are quite smart, so reading a wiring diagram shouldn't take too much brain juice.  So I have a little story to shed light on this attitude.

A Gynacologist decides he's had enough of his job even though he is considered one of the best Gyno's in the world, and decides to get back to his primal instincts and change professions to a mechanic.  He goes to an Auto Mechanic University and studies hard.  He has a hard time through-out the course of his studies and it finally comes down to his final exam so he can barely graduate if he passes.  The exam is to rebuild the engine of a Ford Crown Victoria.  The class begins their final exam and after several hours, the students begin finishing thier exam and one by one they leave the garage.  The Gyno labors on.  Six hours pass and he labors on.  He pushes through the night and finally the next day, late in the afternoon, he turns the key and it starts up smoothly.  His fellow classmates have left dozens of hours earlier and the former Gyno hangs his head and awaits his failed grade.  The instructor looks over his work, and hands the man his final exam grade.  A+.  Surprised by the grade he asks why he recieved such high marks when it took him so long to finish the project.  The instructor looks him in the eye and with a slight smile, simply says:

"Yes it took a while to rebuild the engine, but I've never seen someone do it through the tailpipe!"

Moral of the story is to stick with what you know.  You may be able to finally figure it out, but leave the job to the professionals.

Well I perfer to install my own remote starters because a so called professional at a garage that installed remote starters left me stranded and almost dead. One night up here in MN it got down to -25 or so. Miles from any town I was driving when all of a sudden my car went dead. After a life threating experiance and nasty frost bite,  I looked in to the wiring of the remote starter. Where the guy hooked into the ignition system he twisted the wires together with tape. When the car  got really cold and with the vibration it failed. I do advanced Avionics for  living, I rewired the system and installed raychems. The remote start works every time now. I have another story about certified dealer wiring on my minivan, but wont get into that.   If I got caught twisting wires on a plane they would have my head.

Moral is do your research before hiring sombody, just because they worked at toyota or wherever for 20 years dont make them a professional.

Nevermind.  I think it means "Read The F'n Manual"