How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner?
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How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner? - 9/24/2006 10:21:57 PM
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WheelsRCool
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Hey all, I really would like to start my own business as an auto tuner, mainly for Hummers and other 4x4s. I really love automobiles. I am intending to become a professional automotive technician for starters, then modify my own vehicle, then get a Hummer and modify it, etc....you know, to prove I can do good work, then start the business, but I am wondering, is that a method to do it?
I was reading in a magazine and it said that the owner of Predator Motorsports, the leading Hummer parts company, started it as a crazy idea for a business school project. What I am wondering is, would he have had to somehow have had automotive/mechanical knowledge already when doing this, even though he was a business school person, or would he have handled the business side but hired people who had mechanical knowledge?
I keep looking around on Google for information on becoming a professional tuner, but I can't seem to find any. I really have dreams of becoming a high-calibre tuner, attending SEMA and so forth some day, I am just wondering if I am going down the right path, or if there is a specific path for something like this? I don't want it to be Joe Schmoe's local tuning shop forever, I want to evolve it into a full company that I can work in, but can also retire from with it being a full company that can continue to bring in money.
Any advice is appreciated, thanks. Just wondering if tarting as an auto technician is a proper start. I figure I need to know how to mess with the autos though if I ever want to work as a tuner on them.
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RE: How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner? - 9/25/2006 7:53:15 AM
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HummerBlues
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Do you own a H3 and are you familiar with them.
< Message edited by HUMMERTOGO -- 9/25/2006 3:37:09 PM >
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RE: How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner? - 9/25/2006 1:42:05 PM
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WheelsRCool
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Not right now, no. One of the reasons I am going to become an automotive technician is so that I can learn how to mess with all the parts of the vehicle. The technician programs are 2-3 years and they have various programs, like ones where you work at a GM Dealership (which I would probably do as I like GMC vehicles like the pickups, Hummers, Cadillacs (Escalade and the cars), etc...), a Toyota/Lexus dealership, Chrysler, etc...I have a 1998 GMC Jimmy right now, which I plan to customize as my first show vehicle for showing good work, then go from there.
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RE: How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner? - 9/25/2006 1:45:33 PM
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HummerBlues
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What school are you planning to attend?
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RE: How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner? - 9/25/2006 1:48:35 PM
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Patrick
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how old are you, and how much experience do you have working on vehicles...not counting anything like interior trim or AV items.
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RE: How Do I Become A Hummer Tuner? - 9/25/2006 2:37:53 PM
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HummerGuy
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I was just going to say.....
Dennis; you're alive! I hope!
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