Journal / Vol. 01
Story No. 2
Workshop stories
Diagnosis Before Parts
Good workshop work begins by slowing down long enough to ask the car the right questions.
Replacing parts can make a symptom disappear without resolving the reason it arrived. Diagnosis is the discipline of resisting that shortcut.
History, use, noise, temperature and timing all matter. The first conversation is part of the inspection.
A plan you can understand
The useful outcome is not merely a list of faults. It is a sequence: what is unsafe, what affects reliability, what can wait and what does not need doing at all.
