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She quit medicine to become a mechanic, and built car inspection business
Joan Nyambura, founder of 4Real Ke and an automotive technician specialising in car inspection, inspects a car at Precision Automotive in Nairobi on February 14, 2026.
She became a mechanic out of owning a jalopy. “With an old car, you have to learn how to fix things because old cars can be demanding,” she says, remembering how breakdowns transformed her into a car expert.
She loves 4x4 vehicles and, at the time, she was simply trying to get from one place to another in hers without drama. In that period, she learned that cars, like people, communicate constantly, and that ignoring those signals can be expensive.
