His bio even mentions that he's a really good driver on top of being a genius inventor and I feel like that aspect is rarely explored.
I like to think of Wheeljack as the Autobot mad scienist, who comes up with all sorts of crazy inventions and half of them blow up in his face, which is why he wears a face plate, for protection and the lights on the side of his face are for when he commucating with another bot who having audio problems after something went bang in his lab, thus they got to read what the lights are saying until their audio processors are working again! That my head cannon for Wheeljack, while my headcannon for Shockwave, who is his oppoite in the cons in a lot of ways, is that he is again so smart, yet lodgical that he makes clones of himself, to conduct all of his various experiements and has a hidden lab that deep breath the surface of Cybertron and apart of his experiements, he creates a time machine and purposely alters history while keeping his lab isolated from all of the changes!
