Originally Posted by Jeff Chambers

As a shop owner/operator I'll take offense to the first two items. That shop idiot/owner has probably seen more cars that you ever will. Pay attention to what they say and try to learn something....you may be surprised. Secondly any shop's insurance will forbid anyone operating the vehicle on the dyno other than a shop employee. Now if you're great friends with the shop owner, you may eventually earn a status/trust that lets you operate your own car, but until then I wouldn't even ask. If you don't want to let those that have been trained to do it, then don't even go. There's a lot more on the line for the shop owner than there is for the car owner.