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Re: I Just passed all 10 of my IDA exams!!!!!!
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HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW WHAT MECP was?.
Me! Sold car audio for about 10 years late 90’s and early 2000’s in the great NW. Had MECP installers who were hacks and mostly concerned about their pay. Had guys who were self taught doing some of the most amazing custom installs....
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Re: I Just passed all 10 of my IDA exams!!!!!!
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Me! Sold car audio for about 10 years late 90’s and early 2000’s in the great NW. Had MECP installers who were hacks and mostly concerned about their pay. Had guys who were self taught doing some of the most amazing custom installs....
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Yup, my point exactly. Sad but very real.
"Dirt likes detergent so much better than the surface that it's attached to, it'll leave that surface to go hang out with the soap"...
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Re: I Just passed all 10 of my IDA exams!!!!!!
Originally Posted by
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HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW WHAT MECP was?.
When I became a teen (45 now) I was super die hard into car audio. I've installed my own stuff, killed multiple alternators, send numerous batteries to an early grave. And I don't know what MECP was before you posted it, honestly I don't even think I'd heard of it and just forgot. I guess I knew some sort of certification existed for car audio installation. I just never thought about it.
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I agree that most people don’t care, or don’t know. But, like the ASE certification, the hope is that it one day matters to everyday people. You need to start somewhere
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How cool is that! Congrats, very green with envy.
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Re: I Just passed all 10 of my IDA exams!!!!!!
Originally Posted by
dcjredline
Here is my take on the subject. Back in 1996 when I got out of the Marines I decided to go to one of the best Mobile Electronics (and one of very few at the time) schools out there and while there I would get my MECP (Mobile Electronics Certification Program) cert. The school was RITOP Rich Infferrara (SP) team of professionals. Just look him up in the car audio space, he is known as the godfather of car audio. Anyway back to the subject.
After graduating second in my class and missing only 1 question on the test I go out into the world to be the best installer out there. LOL
2 problems I have with a certificate like that are these
1. If the customer base has no clue what that is it means VERY little to them. HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW WHAT MECP was? ASE is much bigger and has a bunch of marketing that I doubt IDA ever will and MECP ever did.
2. (And this isnt to say anything nasty about the OP cause I have no clue how good of a detailer you are, I have never met you) Just passing the MECP tests (Cause you could take the test without actually going to a school such as I did) says absolutely nothing about how you actually practice your chosen craft.
The reason for #2 is because I worked in the field for over 15 years and saw many MANY certified installers that HACKED THE CRAP out of the cars they were doing. Customers didnt care as long as the price was CHEAP. lol.
IMO and ONLY IMO when I am shopping for someone to do some work for me certificates have VERY little clout in my decision making. The person / people doing the work and their reputation from real life experience means much more to me.
I went to RITOP in 2004! It was a cool experience.
I agree with this also. Just because some is IDA certified doesn't mean they always have the real world experience of someone that is not IDA certified and has 15 years under their belt.
most of the time its all just for bragging rights. IMO
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