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02-01-2018, 09:46 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Newfoundland , Canada
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I am a master tech @ a Mazda dealer , been there 28 years . Was crew chief for Mazda Canada race team in Targa Newfoundland 2007(won modern class 9) and have been in the top 10 Master tech competition with Mazda Canada in 2014 and 2015 . Seen a big change in the industry since I started .
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02-02-2018, 07:58 AM
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I am a master tech @ a Mazda dealer , been there 28 years . Was crew chief for Mazda Canada race team in Targa Newfoundland 2007(won modern class 9) and have been in the top 10 Master tech competition with Mazda Canada in 2014 and 2015 . Seen a big change in the industry since I started .
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That's awesome, you must have quite a bit of experience with rotary engines.
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02-02-2018, 10:23 AM
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New gun,old gun,whatever
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Central Wisconsin
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Sales at a Ford/Lincoln store in Wisconsin Rapids, WI.
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02-06-2018, 11:44 AM
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Originally Posted by kansei
I am a master tech @ a Mazda dealer , been there 28 years . Was crew chief for Mazda Canada race team in Targa Newfoundland 2007(won modern class 9) and have been in the top 10 Master tech competition with Mazda Canada in 2014 and 2015 . Seen a big change in the industry since I started .
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What would you say has been the big change? And does Mazda then do a world master tech comp after Canada?
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Sales at a Ford/Lincoln store in Wisconsin Rapids, WI.
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Very cool. Been there a while?
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02-06-2018, 03:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Newfoundland , Canada
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Originally Posted by FoidPoosening
What would you say has been the big change? And does Mazda then do a world master tech comp after Canada?
Very cool. Been there a while?
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Guess one big change is you don"t see the little strange failures any more . Most problems seem to be the same things . Its like you can say this and this will fail on this model . and soooo much more computer controls .
as for the MazTech worlds - every 2 years the winner from the current and previous year will go to Japan to compete in the worlds .
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02-06-2018, 10:59 PM
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New gun,old gun,whatever
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Central Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by FoidPoosening
Very cool. Been there a while?
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About a year and a half. It's a whole new world, since most of my career leading up to this had me as a behind the scenes research and report kind of guy in real estate title insurance. I never talked to anyone in person, rarely on the phone, and by email only if I had to. Talk about a 180.
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02-07-2018, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by kansei
Guess one big change is you don"t see the little strange failures any more . Most problems seem to be the same things . Its like you can say this and this will fail on this model . and soooo much more computer controls .
as for the MazTech worlds - every 2 years the winner from the current and previous year will go to Japan to compete in the worlds .
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Have you gone to worlds? Have you traveled a lot for work? I find techs either travel a ton or not at all, would be curious to see what your experience has been.
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Originally Posted by Pump Scout
About a year and a half. It's a whole new world, since most of my career leading up to this had me as a behind the scenes research and report kind of guy in real estate title insurance. I never talked to anyone in person, rarely on the phone, and by email only if I had to. Talk about a 180.
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Yeah that's a big switch for sure. What kind of research and reports were you building? I'm familiar with both real estate and insurance, but not real estate title insurance. What is it?
Any skills that you've found carry over into the new gig?
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02-07-2018, 10:00 PM
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One of the places you can find my work is on BimmerLife, BMW Car Club of America's new lifestyle website. Unlike the previous Roundel Weekly email newsletter, anyone — even non-members — can read Bimmerlife. I hope you enjoy my first article: https://bimmerlife.com/2018/01/30/be...ed-toward-bmw/
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02-08-2018, 06:53 AM
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New gun,old gun,whatever
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Central Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by FoidPoosening
Yeah that's a big switch for sure. What kind of research and reports were you building? I'm familiar with both real estate and insurance, but not real estate title insurance. What is it?
Any skills that you've found carry over into the new gig?
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I was a searcher/examiner, so my job was to find anything that affected a property and put together the title commitment. I also wrote the title policy after the closing. The title policy takes the place of the old abstracts (which I'm still capable of making and continuing - a dying art), and gives actual insurance coverage if something is wrong. In 15+ years of doing that job, I had one deal that actually became a "claim", and it was something we could have fought and won. It was less expensive just to pay it off than to take it to court and fight it, though. A situation of being correct when it didn't actually matter. That one involved a bunch of lawyers!
On top of all that, I was also building a database of subdivisions in my office's area. Master searches that would let us search a subdivision lot right from the office using the online access systems with the Register of Deeds office. With a lot of the subdivisions being older than the computer records, I'd have to physically go to the court house to do those searches, but having a master search in place, from the start of the subdivision up to the date of the computer records, would let me do my work without leaving the office. Wildly valuable, and now that I've left, they're probably not using it. I'd had about 250 of the 600 subdivisions done when I quit there.
The biggest thing that carried over for me was the zero errors mentality. Complete ALL the paperwork right the first time around. Attention to the details. I suspect all that has led to being tapped to start training to be the F&I/business manager backup this last October. Doing that is a whole other realm, because it's still sales, but it's getting the paperwork right as well.
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02-08-2018, 08:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Pump Scout
I was a searcher/examiner, so my job was to find anything that affected a property and put together the title commitment. I also wrote the title policy after the closing. The title policy takes the place of the old abstracts (which I'm still capable of making and continuing - a dying art), and gives actual insurance coverage if something is wrong. In 15+ years of doing that job, I had one deal that actually became a "claim", and it was something we could have fought and won. It was less expensive just to pay it off than to take it to court and fight it, though. A situation of being correct when it didn't actually matter. That one involved a bunch of lawyers!
On top of all that, I was also building a database of subdivisions in my office's area. Master searches that would let us search a subdivision lot right from the office using the online access systems with the Register of Deeds office. With a lot of the subdivisions being older than the computer records, I'd have to physically go to the court house to do those searches, but having a master search in place, from the start of the subdivision up to the date of the computer records, would let me do my work without leaving the office. Wildly valuable, and now that I've left, they're probably not using it. I'd had about 250 of the 600 subdivisions done when I quit there.
The biggest thing that carried over for me was the zero errors mentality. Complete ALL the paperwork right the first time around. Attention to the details. I suspect all that has led to being tapped to start training to be the F&I/business manager backup this last October. Doing that is a whole other realm, because it's still sales, but it's getting the paperwork right as well.
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That's super fair. While there's a lot of paper work in sales, I'm sure it's nothing compared to title policy. Glad to hear some stuff did in fact carry over.
The dying art of abstract though, could you explain? It sounds to me like something that would still exist at say, Lloyds?
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02-09-2018, 08:03 AM
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Location: Central Wisconsin
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In the old days, when you bought a property, you'd get an abstract that would lay out every document that ever affected the land, going all the way back to the patent - the grant from the United States of America to the first listed owner. You'd see the initial plot of land that was granted, then all the splits and deeds out as a property was cut down from the original size to the point it's at currently, along with mortgages, foreclosures, deeds, releases, easements, and other documents. Not copies of the actual documents, but a "snapshot" description in a particular format. So you'd get the entire history of the land that went back to, generally, right around the time a state became a state.
The problems with abstracts start with the fact that they're a description rather than a protection. An abstract is put together by title examiners, and then an "opinion" is rendered by an attorney. The attorney adds a page at the end of any new entries stating he believes the contents are accurate. That's it. If it's wrong, gee, sorry, it's wrong. With title insurance, there's an actual process of making a wrong right. That's why the banks now (generally) require title insurance rather than an abstract. It gives them a legal course of action if there's an error. The down side is that a title insurance policy only shows what currently affects the property, not the whole history.
As you can probably imagine, it was an interesting move to jump from something I'd spent so long doing, and knew damn near everything about*, to a career path where I knew damn near nothing. Then again, it's working out pretty well, so there's that!
* If it was something I didn't know I'd get to play "stump the attorney" at our underwriter. Normally if I had to send him something, he'd consult the other four attorneys he had in his office, and sometimes they'd come up with differing answers.
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02-09-2018, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Pump Scout
In the old days, when you bought a property, you'd get an abstract that would lay out every document that ever affected the land, going all the way back to the patent - the grant from the United States of America to the first listed owner. You'd see the initial plot of land that was granted, then all the splits and deeds out as a property was cut down from the original size to the point it's at currently, along with mortgages, foreclosures, deeds, releases, easements, and other documents. Not copies of the actual documents, but a "snapshot" description in a particular format. So you'd get the entire history of the land that went back to, generally, right around the time a state became a state.
The problems with abstracts start with the fact that they're a description rather than a protection. An abstract is put together by title examiners, and then an "opinion" is rendered by an attorney. The attorney adds a page at the end of any new entries stating he believes the contents are accurate. That's it. If it's wrong, gee, sorry, it's wrong. With title insurance, there's an actual process of making a wrong right. That's why the banks now (generally) require title insurance rather than an abstract. It gives them a legal course of action if there's an error. The down side is that a title insurance policy only shows what currently affects the property, not the whole history.
As you can probably imagine, it was an interesting move to jump from something I'd spent so long doing, and knew damn near everything about*, to a career path where I knew damn near nothing. Then again, it's working out pretty well, so there's that!
* If it was something I didn't know I'd get to play "stump the attorney" at our underwriter. Normally if I had to send him something, he'd consult the other four attorneys he had in his office, and sometimes they'd come up with differing answers.
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Very interesting. Any fun abstract details that you remember? Would be curious to see some of the random things that go into "affecting" the land.
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02-10-2018, 05:13 PM
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Midwest Hustle
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Urbana, OH
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I crash cars.........for safety that is. Passive safety is the industry I work in. I started with test set up and performing the tests. Now I am part of calibration/metrology and atd certification. I lead up the calibration and electronics/data acquisition. Spend a lot of time developing new calibration methods/fixtures and custom cables/jumper boxes.
Can't really show what I do, but there are some videos on YouTube that are officially released that I was part of.
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02-11-2018, 01:57 PM
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I crash cars.........for safety that is. Passive safety is the industry I work in. I started with test set up and performing the tests. Now I am part of calibration/metrology and atd certification. I lead up the calibration and electronics/data acquisition. Spend a lot of time developing new calibration methods/fixtures and custom cables/jumper boxes.
Can't really show what I do, but there are some videos on YouTube that are officially released that I was part of.
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Do you work for an OEM or an independent third party?
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02-11-2018, 03:12 PM
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Midwest Hustle
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Urbana, OH
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02-11-2018, 08:35 PM
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Do you work with all OEMs or only certain ones?
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02-11-2018, 10:28 PM
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Midwest Hustle
Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Urbana, OH
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We work with anyone. If a company calls, and we have the capability, we do it. There are some tests/calibrations we can't do because the cost of investment vs the return.
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02-12-2018, 08:56 AM
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We work with anyone. If a company calls, and we have the capability, we do it. There are some tests/calibrations we can't do because the cost of investment vs the return.
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Honda's facility in Marysville is pretty close to you guys, yeah? They've got a testing facility with a Tsukuba Circuit-style test track you can see on Google Earth.
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02-12-2018, 01:18 PM
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Midwest Hustle
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That would actually be our facility with the circuit. Their research branch has direct access to our facility if they have proper clearance. Same goes if I go over there. It's obvious they come here because of vicinity, but we can't mention others. It's a confidentiality thing. We have big names, small companies, start ups, and super secretive ones that try to hide who they are. This place is huge too so we cover virtually all parts of the transportation research industry, and we are expanding to test future of autonomous vehicles.
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02-12-2018, 03:50 PM
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That would actually be our facility with the circuit. Their research branch has direct access to our facility if they have proper clearance. Same goes if I go over there. It's obvious they come here because of vicinity, but we can't mention others. It's a confidentiality thing. We have big names, small companies, start ups, and super secretive ones that try to hide who they are. This place is huge too so we cover virtually all parts of the transportation research industry, and we are expanding to test future of autonomous vehicles.
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Interesting. Everyone assumes it belongs to Honda because of the similarity to Tsukuba. Do you know if that was intentional?
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02-14-2018, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Ian_12
That would actually be our facility with the circuit. Their research branch has direct access to our facility if they have proper clearance. Same goes if I go over there. It's obvious they come here because of vicinity, but we can't mention others. It's a confidentiality thing. We have big names, small companies, start ups, and super secretive ones that try to hide who they are. This place is huge too so we cover virtually all parts of the transportation research industry, and we are expanding to test future of autonomous vehicles.
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Very interesting. How did you get into this line of work?
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