Motor Management of the Car

Level in the Auto Mechanic Section in Sihanoukville

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Sihanoukvillle, November 3, 2007. Mister Johan Gehring has finished the second part of his level "Motor Management of the Car" to instructors and students of the second year of Auto Mechanic in Don Bosco Sihanoukville. The level took the last two weeks of October and about 30 participants did receive a certificate. Mister Gehring, who has been a volunteer in Don Bosco Cambodia since 1991, leads this kind of seminars in order to improve the skill of the auto mechanic students and instructors of Don Bosco Cambodia. Thanks to his own expertise in Mechanic and Car Electronics, the seminars have been useful to face new technologies in the area that are coming into Cambodia. Modern technologies like Software and control of systems by computer are becoming the way for new generations of mechanics.

Every year Cambodia is becoming a more modern country with the coming of modern technologies. Cars are increasing in number and the new ones have to see with more sophisticated technologies walking to what is called the "Future Car Technologies" that has to see with new sources and materials in order to make cars more sustainable, safer, energy efficient and less polluting. Students of Auto Mechanic sections in Don Bosco Cambodia might know it and be ready to understand the challenging proposals in the matter.

Establishing a formal motor management policy helps make the decision as to whether a motor should be replaced or rewound, said ABB UK.

The time were in Cambodia we have only motorbikes is near over. A city like Phnom Penh is becoming a busy place that require new big avenues for the new increasing model of cars that invaded the capital of the Kingdom. "When we opened the first Don Bosco Technical School in Phnom Penh in 1991, I remember that our car was one of the so few cars in the city", said Father John Visser, the Don Bosco Cambodia representative, "but now we see many cars and most of them of the most modern models, therefore, we need to update the skills of our instructors and students, so that is why a so well prepared person like Mister Johan Gehring is so much important for our country."

For Brother Roberto, current head master of the Don Bosco Hotel School of Sihanoukville but with a long experience in technical workshops in Thailand and Cambodia, the difficulties now with the introduction of new technologies in things like Auto Mechanic is the poor quality of the national electricity. "New machines can be good, but they get easily damage due to the irregular fluctuation of our electricity. That is a good task for our country to be improved." he said.

Mister Gehring, a Dutch expert in Auto Mechanic and Electronics, introduced to the participants of his seminar a Software that indicates any problem in the car. "You need of course a computer and the Software that is usually expensive for a country like this, about US$250, you need a key to access and them you connect it to the car's system and it shows you where there is a problem in the motor" said Mister Gehring to Don Bosco Cambodia showing the program in a computer. Some of the instructors - three of them came to Sihanoukville from Phnom Penh -, were handling the commands of the Software in a computer while Mister Gehring were telling to them what to do.