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WHAT IS IATN?
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The International Automotive Technicians Network is the largest network of automotive repair professionals in the world: a group of 80,009 automotive professionals from 186 countries. iATN’s mission is to promote the continued growth, success and image of the professional automotive technician by providing a forum for the exchange of knowledge and the promotion of education, professionalism, and integrity.
The members of this group exchange technical knowledge with their peers around the globe, sharing over 2.2 million years of experience. iATN has been proudly serving the automotive service and repair industry and the needs of professional automotive mechanics around the world, for 20 years.
Learn from your peers in our interactive environment, by asking questions and searching millions of real-world discussions and repairs. Discover how to work more efficiently, and study best practices illustrated by fellow industry professionals. Get the most out of your diagnostic equipment, and transport your career to the next level.
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Technical Assistance for Auto Pros
TechHelp is the heart of iATN: thousands of professional automotive technicians, from all over the world, helping each other with real-world automotive problems, 24 hours a day. A feed of some of the latest TechHelp requests is shown below. Inside the members-only area, your personalized TechHelp page is the central clearinghouse for all things related to TechHelp. You can open a new help request, update or close requests that you currently have open, add further comments to help requests you have closed in the past, help other members with their vehicle problems, update your TechHelp email subscription settings, view the current TechHelp stats for you and the rest of iATN, and more.
Real-World Knowledge from Professional Technicians
Searchable automotive repair knowledge: Our FIX Database of hundreds of thousands of real-world vehicle fixes, our Forum Archives, consisting of millions of iATN web forum discussions, our Waveform Library containing thousands of waveforms, scandata, component photos, documents, and more.
Professional Automotive Discussion Forums
There are over 20 different automotive discussion forums in the iATN members only area, with 2.5 million messages and roughly 500 posts daily. You may discuss all manner of automotive topics with other automotive professionals in a threaded discussion format as shown in the screen below. The automotive discussion that takes place ranges from very technical in nature to repair shop management, automotive industry issues, and everything in between. Members upload waveforms, scan data, photos, videos and other documents and discuss them directly in forums. Below, your can see a sampling of the latest topics being discussed on iATN
Automotive OEM, Industry and Government Resources
Members have access to a wide array of technical information published on iATN from many of the OEMs, government resources and industry heavy-weights. Information ranges from manufacturer-specific information, to government regulations and useful online tools. We are always interested in working with the industry to provide our members access to more information.
My iATN
The "My iATN" feature allows you to instantly save, categorize, sort, locate, and share your favorite items on iATN: all forum posts, images (and other file uploads), and TechHelp requests and fixes. This can help you keep track of useful information you find on iATN. (With 2.8 million items in our Knowledge Base, there's a lot of information to use!) When researching a vehicle problem or doing technical research on iATN, you can now instantly save the most pertinent results under a single label specific to your customer's vehicle, a specific topic, or any other category you create.
Marketplace
Classifieds, Industry Events & Member Discounts Marketplace includes the Classifieds Forum, for job-offered or job-wanted ads, and non-commercial automotive items for sale; the Industry Events Forum, to announce or discuss training classes, seminars, conventions, and more; and iATN members-only discounts.
Live Chat for Automotive Pros
You will find live conferencing rooms on the iATN 24 hours a day, so that you may easily chat with your fellow iATN members. Unlike most other anonymous chat rooms on the internet, ours is only available to the other members of iATN, guaranteeing conversations with automotive professionals. All members are able to moderate the rooms to ensure decorum. Many members stay connected throughout their day, popping in as their time permits, to help others and stay in contact with their peers.
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