ALOA's Locksmith Automotive Training Week will be held Oct. 22-27 at ALOA headquarters in Dallas. Manny Natal, CRL, CMAL, will be the instructor. Classes are 7:30 to 5 p.m. each day with lunch included. Discounts are available for locksmiths enrolling in all sessions and for ALOA/SAVTA members. Pre-registration required.
Contact the ALOA Education Dept. at email [email protected] or phone 214-819-9733, ext. 101.
Monday Oct. 22: Automotive Essentials
Whether you are just beginning to delve into the automotive locksmith realm or looking to explore deeper into this most dynamic aspect of our profession, this course has been developed with you in mind. Examples and description of key programmers, remote programmers various testers’ literature, technical manuals and resources as well as their strength and weaknesses. The interactive portion of the class will focus on identification, decoding, and organization of conventional keys and their related transponder systems. You will understand and know how to address and resolve common and unusual key problems through interactive modules.
Tuesday Oct. 23: Intermediate Domestic Automotive
This interactive class expounds upon the principles introduced and discussed in Beginning Automotive Locksmithing. This course is a continuation of the assessment, trouble shooting, servicing and key origination of conventional automotive locks. This will actively discuss examine, service and decode a multitude of automotive conventional locks. This will be done initially as one large group and then in small cohesive labs.
Wednesday Oct. 24: Intermediate Foreign Automotive
This class has been developed with the experienced locksmith in mind. It is the next step in the progression of not just making keys to vehicles, but identifying and correcting problems that arise in conventional keyway foreign vehicles. There will be a lecture, demonstration, discussions and, more importantly, interactive modules where the students will familiarize themselves with the actual keys, lock and immobilizer systems presented during the lecture portion of the class.
Thursday Oct. 25: Advanced Automotive
Class Prerequisite: Attendees/Students are to already have a comprehensive understanding of automotive locksmithing, (i.e.: completed the essentials and intermediate courses at the very minimum). This course will cover the identification, duplication, origination and servicing of high-security locks. This course will also cover the identification of the keys, remotes, proximity fobs for these vehicles. We will discuss the benefits and limitation of these systems and the ways to capitalize on these. As manufacturers continue to provide us with new diverse and interesting systems for us to service and profit from the mechanical, electrical and electronic advanced systems in vehicles will be a part of the course. In the interactive portion of the course, the students will have the opportunity to experience some of these high-security locks.
Friday Oct. 26: EEPROM
This course has been designed to serve as a bridge for the automotive security professional between conventional EEPROM programming through an OBD port with a conventional programmer and directly interacting with the EEPROM. The class will give the participants a solid understanding into the handling, reading, interpreting and writing of the most common non-OBD readable and/ or programmable EEPROMs. Students will be introduced to the tasks required to achieve each of these facets and then perform each of the tasks themselves.
Saturday Oct. 27: Transponders & Microcontrollers
Open to ALOA members only. This integrated course, will through lecture and active participation demystify this facet of automotive electronic security. Through the reading, writing, duplication, creation and the interchangeability of this seemingly endless variety of transponders with the use of the latest equipment from ILCO, Advanced Diagnostics and others, a solid understanding of transponders and microcontrollers will be achieved. Students are encouraged to bring up to seven used/locked proximity keys and their SMART PRO programmers. With a handful of transponders and the insights you will glean from this course you will be knowledgeable in the integration, generation and or duplication of over 90 % of the automotive transponders on the road today. With the knowledge acquired in conjunction with the ALOA's other dynamic automotive courses gains in automotive key production profitability can easily increase 10-30% with decreased demands for inventory and increases in productivity and sales.
