Can i actually learn about fixing a car?

[Googly]

I'm not expecting to be able to fully restore a car but just maybe learn some good stuff if my car happens to break down on the road or something.

[crztrucker57]

You sure can, by learning the components of the vehicle and seeing how bad parts affect handling, as well as how bad parts affect the running of the car.

[tox]

A little I guess but you may miss some items of a "bigger component".To give an easy example sure you can put in a radiator but no hoses,you can put in a battery it has no cables attached in the game,and brakes you can change them but forget about brake lines there is none in the game.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Not really, it`s very simplified. You dont repair parts in real life by clicking on them with a mouse.
For instance there is no hydraulics, no liquids beside engine oil and no electrical systems that would actually be connected by wires besides engine ignition wire bundles for older cars.

[Kaba]

I fear not. Sure, you can learn how things work in general, but that is about it. This will not help much when you are stranded on the roadside, it simply takes real world experience working on cars to get an idea what might be wrong, if it's not totally obvious, and that still does not help much, unless you've got your tools and some spareparts with you.

I'm into cars for 30 years now, and when I started out, cars still where quite fixable with only some basic tools and knowledge, but any modern car from the last 15 years is technically well beyond what you can fix an the roadside, except some very basic problems like blown fuses, loose pins and stuff. Most times you will need a diagnostic computer, and while there are adapters that enable you to use your smartphone for some diagnostics, it still takes experience to "guess" what might have caused those errorcodes stored in the ECU.

This is a fun game, it depicts working on cars better than any other game I have played to far, but it is not an educational tool, and that is nothing it can be blamed for at all.

[Volkswagenman3]

I feel like this game has helped me. I can narrow down what the problem could be now. Such as car won't start.

[bolero3232]

I've been in the auto repair business, in several aspects, for half of my adult life.
No, you won't learn anything really useful as far as auto repair.
But, you will learn some basic understanding of cars in general, so next time you take your car for service or repairs you'll have some idea of what the mechanic is telling you.

[zeanomourph]

Hahahhahahaha ahahahahhaha. No.
You can learn some basic terminology what parts are called and the general area in the car that they are usually located, but beyond that, not much. I just spent about 1.5 hours putting new blinkers on my motorbike IRL. Took the old ones off, put new ones on. Plus taking apart half the back end of the bike to get the wiring fitted through the proper wiring channels instead of hanging out all over the place.
In that time in the game, I could have rebuilt 2 full cars- engine, suspension, wheels, body and interior from junkyard to 100%.. the game is in no way a realistic interpretation of what working on a vehicle is actually like.

[Vellari]

And no seized bolts or anything like that break on disassembly.

[Jackthedragonkiller [Chirch]]

Play My Summer Car to learn proper vehicle building, you have to manage coolant, fuel, oil, brake fluids. You have to attach radiator hoses and wire the car, and it's just fun in general.

[Claus]

Originally posted by crztrucker57:

You sure can, by learning the components of the vehicle and seeing how bad parts affect handling, as well as how bad parts affect the running of the car.

Exactly, knowing parts and how they work together is essentially the most important step and this game will teach you that.

I went from not knowing a single part in a car to be able to repair my own and do my own oil change, i also know every part in a engine and what they do together, that's all i need to know, as for repairing parts it is another story, i think in most cases you would replace them rather than repair.

I will add though, in a real car fiddling around setting parts back in their right place can be a hassle, in the game you just do it without issues, so i would like the next simulator to have a system where you hassle to put parts together or apart.

Also i would really like the next simulator game to start in a amateur garage, so you start with a amateur lift and have to slide in under the car to do oil change and so on, then you start a small business with only one car at a time and work your way up to a professional workshop like we have now with autolifts and other handy tools.