LibGuides: Automotive Collision & Refinishing: Top Resources

Top Resources

Repair Information:

ALLDATA Repair This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive resource for automotive diagnostic and repair information.
ProDemand (IMPORTANT - Currently only available on-campus) This link opens in a new window
IMPORTANT - Currently only available on-campus
ProDemand helps service professionals find information faster than ever before. Technicians will find everything they need to complete a job in just one look-up, saving time and getting cars out of the bays faster.
Click on 'Login' button to access.
IMPORTANT - Currently only available on-campus
Identifix
The “Direct Hit” database, from Identifix, matches automotive diagnostic trouble codes and symptoms reported from the field to proven short cut tests and confirmed fixes.

Safety Videos:

Safetyhub
SafetyHub provides over 80 streaming workplace safety training videos. View them on your mobile device or computer. Closed captioned.

Car & Motorcycle Magazines:

OverDrive
A collection of popular downloadable eBooks and Audiobooks. You can either download a book using an Overdrive app or read it/listen using your browser.

Overdrive has eBooks and audiobooks for your desktop or mobile device. Also includes over 4200 magazines on many subjects; over 260 of those are auto-related.

VCC Library Car

In September 2019 an International ACR class pushed a 2001 Smart Car into the Broadway Library! International ACR students and faculty had fabricated a custom "book" steering wheel and "pencil" gearshift. Students pushed as Annelle steered it into place:

Keith steered as an ACR class pushed the car from the shop, left on 7th, and then up the sidewalk on Glen Drive:

Off-Campus Acces

Off-campus: sign in using your VCC login:

Username: Your 9-digit student number (e.g. 000123456)

Password: The default is VCC + your birth date as MMDDYY + #

(e.g. February 13, 1980 = VCC021380#)

If you've changed your password for MyVCC, Moodle, etc., that is also your new library password.

Your VCC Librarian

Kristina Oldenburg

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Subjects: ASL, Deaf & Visually Impaired, Automotive & Heavy Duty Transport, Basic Education, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, EAL (LINC & Pathways), eBooks, Education, Family Literacy, Interpreting, Legal Assistant & Paralegal, Office Administration, Sociology, Visually Impaired, Zotero

Automotive Collision & Refinishing: Top Resources