# How did everyone learn how to work on cars? **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [January 10, 2008, 5:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-everyone-learn-how-to-work-on-cars/194703 "2008-01-10T17:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![imported\_Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/edb3f5/32.png) [@imported\_Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_Jon)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2008, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-everyone-learn-how-to-work-on-cars/194703/8 "2008-01-10T19:04:00Z")
> [@Watch Crew: What to buy?](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/watch-crew-what-to-buy/34295/40): > > So are all Helm’s manuals vehicle specific? There isn’t just one omnipotent Helm’s manual right? LOL I know alot of people are probably going “He doesn’t know what a helms manual is?!?!” I know I’m such a noob. :stick: I’m gonna be the guy, poking you with a stick, and asking alot of questions, but only for a little while. I just hate being the annoying guy who doesn’t know what he’s talking about! Learned off people is the best way to do it. I started learning things from my dad, and then experimenting on my own car(bad idea) from a haynes manual doing whatever I saw fit, and then went to school at UTI for about a year and learned everything I wanted to from there. Another way I learned a lot was being a porter at a smaller car shop. When we weren’t busy I’d talk to the techs while they worked, ask them questions about things and saw how they did stuff. I picked up a lot of things that way. Of course making sure it didn’t bother them that you poked around before hand 🙂 Don’t get me wrong I don’t know a whole lot myself, but the most of what I do know, that’s how I got it! --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/how-did-everyone-learn-how-to-work-on-cars/194703)._