Thats 95% of dealer techs in my area i had to have my rear coil springs replaced under recall i asked could i have the springs and ill put on myself they said no ok pick up my forester hit a bump in the parking lot left spring pops out pull it right back in took them 3 tries
You seriously need to do a video on the different types of managers/owners. As a high level diag guy who is fast and efficient with everything including heavy repair; i find it stunning that there's a category of manager/owner who values up-selling above all else.
What category is the diagnostic/fabricator/welder/heavy line/Electrical/Custom/Classics and stuff most generally don't want to do or can't do technician in? I've gotten pretty good at making good hours while doing most of the stuff nobody wants to do. The trick is to make sure you get paid for your time. Today they brought in a 1994 Ram another shop put an engine in and couldn't get running for a month after. It won't crank, but jumping the starter relay it cranks and doesn't start. Everyone was yucking it up as we pushed this salvage looking monster truck into my bay. First one tomorrow. It'll be worth it, or it'll get towed out after I get an idea what's going on with it. :) We have to know our worth AND be realistic about it.
I do plenty of diagnostics and I am good mechanically, I can do suspension, brakes, heavy line work, or I can brake out the Pico and find that intermittent short on the can bus. I don't work at a shop though, I work out of my own garage, so I have to fix it or it doesn't get fixed. Most of the cars I work on have been to multiple shops, and had the parts cannon fired. So I have to find the real issue then fix all the crap they broke trying to fix it. I specialize in the old rusty crusty beater with a heater grocery getters for people with limited funds. My day job is a network engineer, and I enjoy spending evenings an weekend fixing simple problems with cars. I would never do it as a full time job, because the pay sucks.
You and me are in similar vein...my day job I and an Engineering Lab Technician and on the weekends a buddy and I work on cars (friends, family, co-workers) out of his dads old shop (use to be an actual mechanics shop). I am actually a college trained automotive & HD diesel Tech...gave the career up for better pay in what I do now. shop work on weekends is for maintenance money for my own cars and/or play money.
Same i left the industry to work on commercial floor cleaning equipment hourly pay company car tools paid for 4 weeks vacation starting make over 60k and work 8-430
@@jasonleatherwood2172 not bad, I left the automotive world because I got paid 70k salary for an office position, there is a shop trying to bring me back for 80k + bonuses which I'm really considering. The technician shortage is real, shops are trying really hard to find good mechanics, it's just hard to find good techs.
The lazy guy that are useless get the best treatment from management. If your a good tech with tools and give your best , your life will be made difficult.
Yup, this is me now. RV work. Not many walk ins the way automotive work is. I come in, have 2 things scheduled for the day. Knock one job out. Wait 1.5 hours for the one scheduled after lunch to come in, go on lunch, come back, find that the one after lunch either didn't confirm their appointment or we don't even have the parts for the job. Hang out for an hour (CA tool wage is dbl minimum to just do nothing) and then leave to go home. I need to leave this field 😩
maybe it's just ego and pride. Every human on this planet thinks they work harder than the other. Maybe those "lazy useless guys" get more bc they focus on what their doing instead of another "lazy dude." All this to say, focus on yourself. I swear the automotive field is worse than working at a hair salon with a bunch of females. Constant bitching n moaning and comparing and jealousy and entitlement, etc.
Move everyone in automotive repair to salary & watch how fast most issues in the industry for it's workers, disappear. This weird focus on "efficiency" needs to stop. Every job is 1 broken bolt away from taking twice as long, why is North America the only one charging by "book time", labor hours should be billed by how long the job takes. You didn't make the car, you didn't break it either, so why is all of the stress and responsibility pushed onto the mechanic.
Master advanced level certified Indie tech here. I fall somewhere between #1 and #2. I am the lead tech and diagnostician at my shop. Get alot of diags from other shops and dealerships. Beat book most of the time. The owner takes care of me real well financially. Also provides me with just about factory scan tool to use.
I’m the go to guy for diag and I get most of the heavy line. Was knocking out good weeks. So they added another tech and now all of our hours suck. I’m putting out resumes now.
I started in the industry at 36. I’m 52 now. I remember when I was a baby/sponge. I am now master certified in 2 manufacturers. I know more now than I ever thought I would know about cars when I started and still don’t know it all. I’m still a sponge because I love all things cars, I like heavy line work and diag but I’m slow because I’m a perfectionist.
Micromanaging can play a lot into Shop Productivity. Techs being rushed into getting big jobs done. I have seen guys walk out quit while doing an engine replacement.
I been a tech for 15 years. This guys is 100% on point. From top to bottom. Yes, the pay scales follow 90% of the time. The top diag guy who spends half the day in the bathroom gets paid the most 😂 us bad ass hour slayers get the love cause we pay the bills. But best believe I do not have time to spend half a day on diag when I have 30 vehicles to look at by end of day.
I found if you struggle making book time work for a dealership where you deal with the same vehicles and you can remember how to do things faster and learn tricks from others around you. Hard not to get better at making time
I'm the second category. Not the absolute best at everything, but I can work on anything and diagnose most anything I can duplicate and have service info for. I can tell you I don't have the lower back to swing engines/trans all day, but I can usually do those big jobs ~book on 10yo rust-belt cars.
I might be the rare breed. Fast at heavy line, repairs, can also diagnose with the better ones. I'm not as versatile some of the top diagnostic guys but can do much of that stuff. Your categories nailed it IMHO
I'm in a light construction equipment down to a consumer product shop with a high emphasis on agriculture equipment. I watch all your videos, because almost everything you discuss transfers over. I believe I fall in the diagnostic category. I always thought there was something wrong with me that I wasn't efficient at doing large repairs. I became the lead tech in the shop, not believing that I was the best, but that I was the only one left.
I see this problem in our industry. Only two categories. Body shop and mechanical. We need specialist in multiple fields. I’ve worked on cars from the 1930’s on up to last 10 years or so.. But I’m 70 and have seen this evolution. The guy who bought my shop (43 years old) won’t work on 95 and older unless he can talk me or my brother out of retirement. The problem as I see it is if you are a small one, two or three man shop you don’t have a place for a strictly electrical/electronic tech. This leaves small shops to guess at repair processes. Finding a strictly electrical type shop is rare because most can’t make a living on those odd brain busting jobs. I would love to hear some suggestions to fixing this. Doctors are specialists in all manner of body systems. Some even just to knees only. I think we need some system like this.
There is an even higher level than diagnostics. The guy who diags, works circles around so called techs and the one that gets handed all their comebacks and fixes all their mistakes. That's me, I call my position "fire extinguisher specialist."
I'm definitely a cross between #2, #3, and sometimes #4 technician, but to include that everywhere i have worked i have been the only technician that is capable and willing to do dash work, and do it efficiently at that.. I am extremely proficient at changing parts, performing proper inspections and making proper recommendations w/ the repairs. I do a fair share of diagnostic work, but not very efficient at the time frames some of time due to confidence, but have always been able to get it sorted out etc..
I’m great with heavy line, basic electrical diag…. Ok, I can stumble my way through. But I’m trying to get better, learning from our other techs who are great with diags.
I find myself to be great at diagnostics and starting to become efficient with repairs, but it's a work in progress. I've had my fair share of hard-to-diagnose cars with some that I've never been able to fully get through or figure out, but these are often extremely intermittent concerns that are time-consuming to duplicate, much less diagnose.
43 and I’m the same guy as you. I predominantly do Diagnostic/program flash. NASTF certified. I do have 3 different scopes but pretty much stick to my verus edge scope or Vantage pro.faster then pulling out laptop and pico. Definitely had my fair share of vehicles that’s been to 3-4 other shops that I was able to Diag. Yes some of them kicked me in the butt hard. Comes to R&R I can usually beat the clock. First 5 years I was a shop bull. Not that hack kind of bull😂
I feel like I'm the aspirational gst but currently dealing with being an under confident tech as well. So far what I have found is I need to recognize what I don't know and accept I don't know it and especially parce out what I can find out and what I can't reasonably find out and work from there. Like I'm not gonna be ripping off a cat to physically inspect it and I right now don't have the equipment to test for excess back pressure from the engine to the cat to determine a clogged cat however I still do have the scan tool and can use graphed live data and 06 data to draw a good educated guess and eventually I can get the right equipment to test for excess back pressure like scanner danner does But basically just do with what I can with what I have and accept everyone is just making educated guesses at this stuff and just do the best you can do and keep trying to learn new techniques and get equipment to apply them as I can
You missed the Know it all GS that comes in young with a tiny bit of experience working in their driveway or their dad/uncle/grandpa was a tech and they think at 18-21 years old they’re already a master tech. Very arrogant but at the end of the day they’re just the baby but with the attitude of the old guy.
@@ghostwrench2292 old farts talk a lot about what could be the problem instead of actual diag teaching, I stopped listening and only do it for entertainment unless you can show me data how you can approach a problem, otherwise stay in your lane and let me do the data driven tests.
FRM, you forgot to talk about those bumper to bumper guys, for example, you may have drivability guys. Electronic guys that specialize in ADAS and special electronics such as convertible tops, air suspension and such which is hydraulics or air driven bags, etc. Kind of needs to be broken down into those categories as well. Some may be efficient with drivability (engine mechanical) while others may be efficient with electronics and what not.
I have a buddy that's the low confidence tech. I can't get him out of it. Hes been at a local high volume used car dealership several years. Hes a great worker but they wont let him advance because of it. They won't advance him because they cant find or keep anyone willing to do the hard, labor intensive or low hour jobs so they stick him with everything nobody else wants to do.
Nope, you have to do it all. Diagnostics everything or you probably won't be there long. Today, even dealership techs do most everything. They had departments back in the 80s at large dealerships, but today there's not many dedicated driveability engine and transmission techs. You diagnose it and YOU do the work. The only exception is oil lube techs and alignment shops. At Chrysler and most dealerships you have todo frontend and alignments too, everything. Just hope they don't sell tires or you'll be doing that too!
To be truly good at diagnostics one needs to be able to work outside the box. You must be able to fully understand the how the system works, all the components of the system and how each one works in conjunction with each other. Far too often a tech will just throw parts at the problem at your expense.
It takes time to study and understand any system that rolls into your bay, time you're not paid for. Customers just expect you to know everything about every vehicle, it's not humanly possible and to make it worse manufacturers change things every couple of years.
The Diag techs are analytical. So I can see where you are coming from. But when I was in the field I had one manager state quality not quantity. And nobody hates comebacks.
@@crasher88 a tech that is ready to start their own business. They’re at a point where they are losing more money by staying at a shop than to branch out on their own
You forgot the a tech that has no tools but it maybe only here in wedtern ak that carpenters dont own a tool belt and the company supplies tools for mechanics. I guess one reason i work alone still is im not buying tools for a journeyman tech. If you take your trade seriously you will be proud to own your own tools
Who is going to replace the small shop owner ? Opening a small independent specialty shop is not easy but needed. Dealerships are charging way too much for doing very little. Even parts at above msrp. Shops are killing themselves when they don’t nurture talented technicians.
The disaster corrector is where I've landed. Everthing seized, snapped off, no comm, no start, welding and or fab required etc. A straight forward repair is a rarity in my day to day. Fortunately my employer gets it and makes sure that I get paid for putting out fires.
Slower than a heavy line guy. More confident than the worried guy. Possibly better than the heavy line guy at diagnostics. Poorer than the parts changer.
If you do not know how to fix the the issue and repair the issue after diagnosing the issue then you not a mechanic or a Tech in my mind you only learned half the job we do not need to split the trade in to parts or segments we need Techs and mechanics to learn how to do it all and o it well fast and proper to me doing this makes a weak industry and undertrained and educated People ....Look at me I can do it all and I can do it Right every time... makes you Valuable in demand ..
Only in the flat rate world does this talk come up. Efficient = crushing terrible flat rate times. Should be highly paid hourly like electricians , welders etc...
You forgot mr comeback everything he touches he fucks up
Good point.
Thats 95% of dealer techs in my area i had to have my rear coil springs replaced under recall i asked could i have the springs and ill put on myself they said no ok pick up my forester hit a bump in the parking lot left spring pops out pull it right back in took them 3 tries
@@jasonleatherwood2172 That's actually incredibly sad. It's hard to mess up coil springs.
@@COBRO98 its warranty it probably paid 25$ to the tech so they going so fast they cant check thier work
Captain comeback! Every 3rd car!
You seriously need to do a video on the different types of managers/owners. As a high level diag guy who is fast and efficient with everything including heavy repair; i find it stunning that there's a category of manager/owner who values up-selling above all else.
I'm the _Ready-to-Jump-Ship_ Guy. AKA The Burned Out Guy.
This is so true. Worked with a lot of them!
What’s the mean? ready to quit every day? that’s me
What category is the diagnostic/fabricator/welder/heavy line/Electrical/Custom/Classics and stuff most generally don't want to do or can't do technician in? I've gotten pretty good at making good hours while doing most of the stuff nobody wants to do. The trick is to make sure you get paid for your time.
Today they brought in a 1994 Ram another shop put an engine in and couldn't get running for a month after. It won't crank, but jumping the starter relay it cranks and doesn't start. Everyone was yucking it up as we pushed this salvage looking monster truck into my bay. First one tomorrow. It'll be worth it, or it'll get towed out after I get an idea what's going on with it. :)
We have to know our worth AND be realistic about it.
Jack of all trades master of none
@@icepick859 This dude is doing everything that I do. Master of everything. I am 35 yrs in. Until a laptop gets involved, I am ininvi
I do plenty of diagnostics and I am good mechanically, I can do suspension, brakes, heavy line work, or I can brake out the Pico and find that intermittent short on the can bus. I don't work at a shop though, I work out of my own garage, so I have to fix it or it doesn't get fixed. Most of the cars I work on have been to multiple shops, and had the parts cannon fired. So I have to find the real issue then fix all the crap they broke trying to fix it. I specialize in the old rusty crusty beater with a heater grocery getters for people with limited funds. My day job is a network engineer, and I enjoy spending evenings an weekend fixing simple problems with cars. I would never do it as a full time job, because the pay sucks.
You and me are in similar vein...my day job I and an Engineering Lab Technician and on the weekends a buddy and I work on cars (friends, family, co-workers) out of his dads old shop (use to be an actual mechanics shop). I am actually a college trained automotive & HD diesel Tech...gave the career up for better pay in what I do now. shop work on weekends is for maintenance money for my own cars and/or play money.
Same i left the industry to work on commercial floor cleaning equipment hourly pay company car tools paid for 4 weeks vacation starting make over 60k and work 8-430
@@jasonleatherwood2172 not bad, I left the automotive world because I got paid 70k salary for an office position, there is a shop trying to bring me back for 80k + bonuses which I'm really considering. The technician shortage is real, shops are trying really hard to find good mechanics, it's just hard to find good techs.
The lazy guy that are useless get the best treatment from management. If your a good tech with tools and give your best , your life will be made difficult.
Holy schitt this is spot on.
Most definitely
Why do you think this is? It really ticks me off
Yup, this is me now. RV work. Not many walk ins the way automotive work is. I come in, have 2 things scheduled for the day. Knock one job out. Wait 1.5 hours for the one scheduled after lunch to come in, go on lunch, come back, find that the one after lunch either didn't confirm their appointment or we don't even have the parts for the job. Hang out for an hour (CA tool wage is dbl minimum to just do nothing) and then leave to go home. I need to leave this field 😩
maybe it's just ego and pride. Every human on this planet thinks they work harder than the other. Maybe those "lazy useless guys" get more bc they focus on what their doing instead of another "lazy dude." All this to say, focus on yourself. I swear the automotive field is worse than working at a hair salon with a bunch of females. Constant bitching n moaning and comparing and jealousy and entitlement, etc.
Move everyone in automotive repair to salary & watch how fast most issues in the industry for it's workers, disappear. This weird focus on "efficiency" needs to stop.
Every job is 1 broken bolt away from taking twice as long, why is North America the only one charging by "book time", labor hours should be billed by how long the job takes. You didn't make the car, you didn't break it either, so why is all of the stress and responsibility pushed onto the mechanic.
Master advanced level certified Indie tech here. I fall somewhere between #1 and #2. I am the lead tech and diagnostician at my shop. Get alot of diags from other shops and dealerships. Beat book most of the time. The owner takes care of me real well financially. Also provides me with just about factory scan tool to use.
To a shop owner the top top top master level tech is the guy who produces the most hours.
@@Andy-ms9vi Sometimes they will brag out loud to the diagnostic guys about how many billable hours the brake and alignment guys produce.
I was a diagnostic tech, I now work as an electro-mechanic servicing vfd’s, ser’s, plc’s, relays, controllers, etc in factories.
Doubled my salary 👍
I’m the go to guy for diag and I get most of the heavy line. Was knocking out good weeks. So they added another tech and now all of our hours suck. I’m putting out resumes now.
I'm a toddler, I started in the industry at 38, albeit se.i experienced in repairs, but I will add a subcategories, baby/sponge. I wanna learn it all
I started in the industry at 36. I’m 52 now. I remember when I was a baby/sponge. I am now master certified in 2 manufacturers. I know more now than I ever thought I would know about cars when I started and still don’t know it all. I’m still a sponge because I love all things cars, I like heavy line work and diag but I’m slow because I’m a perfectionist.
Micromanaging can play a lot into Shop Productivity. Techs being rushed into getting big jobs done. I have seen guys walk out quit while doing an engine replacement.
I been a tech for 15 years. This guys is 100% on point. From top to bottom. Yes, the pay scales follow 90% of the time. The top diag guy who spends half the day in the bathroom gets paid the most 😂 us bad ass hour slayers get the love cause we pay the bills. But best believe I do not have time to spend half a day on diag when I have 30 vehicles to look at by end of day.
I found if you struggle making book time work for a dealership where you deal with the same vehicles and you can remember how to do things faster and learn tricks from others around you. Hard not to get better at making time
I'm the second category. Not the absolute best at everything, but I can work on anything and diagnose most anything I can duplicate and have service info for. I can tell you I don't have the lower back to swing engines/trans all day, but I can usually do those big jobs ~book on 10yo rust-belt cars.
I might be the rare breed. Fast at heavy line, repairs, can also diagnose with the better ones. I'm not as versatile some of the top diagnostic guys but can do much of that stuff.
Your categories nailed it IMHO
I'm 100% Diagnosics first one. I can hit and do some good book time, but not the best at making time.
Very efficient at repairs, shotgunner on the diagnostics. Working on it
Im working hard and studying everyday to be great a diagnosing because i can repair anything
I'm in a light construction equipment down to a consumer product shop with a high emphasis on agriculture equipment. I watch all your videos, because almost everything you discuss transfers over. I believe I fall in the diagnostic category. I always thought there was something wrong with me that I wasn't efficient at doing large repairs. I became the lead tech in the shop, not believing that I was the best, but that I was the only one left.
We called the parts hangers HACKS.
I see this problem in our industry. Only two categories. Body shop and mechanical. We need specialist in multiple fields. I’ve worked on cars from the 1930’s on up to last 10 years or so.. But I’m 70 and have seen this evolution. The guy who bought my shop (43 years old) won’t work on 95 and older unless he can talk me or my brother out of retirement.
The problem as I see it is if you are a small one, two or three man shop you don’t have a place for a strictly electrical/electronic tech. This leaves small shops to guess at repair processes.
Finding a strictly electrical type shop is rare because most can’t make a living on those odd brain busting jobs.
I would love to hear some suggestions to fixing this. Doctors are specialists in all manner of body systems. Some even just to knees only. I think we need some system like this.
There is an even higher level than diagnostics. The guy who diags, works circles around so called techs and the one that gets handed all their comebacks and fixes all their mistakes. That's me, I call my position "fire extinguisher specialist."
I'm definitely a cross between #2, #3, and sometimes #4 technician, but to include that everywhere i have worked i have been the only technician that is capable and willing to do dash work, and do it efficiently at that.. I am extremely proficient at changing parts, performing proper inspections and making proper recommendations w/ the repairs. I do a fair share of diagnostic work, but not very efficient at the time frames some of time due to confidence, but have always been able to get it sorted out etc..
I’m great with heavy line, basic electrical diag…. Ok, I can stumble my way through. But I’m trying to get better, learning from our other techs who are great with diags.
Disgruntled? I am the Diag guy at my shop and it's not the greatest job in the world. I got to do some mechanical work last week and it was fun!!!
I find myself to be great at diagnostics and starting to become efficient with repairs, but it's a work in progress. I've had my fair share of hard-to-diagnose cars with some that I've never been able to fully get through or figure out, but these are often extremely intermittent concerns that are time-consuming to duplicate, much less diagnose.
Thanks.
43 and I’m the same guy as you. I predominantly do Diagnostic/program flash. NASTF certified. I do have 3 different scopes but pretty much stick to my verus edge scope or Vantage pro.faster then pulling out laptop and pico. Definitely had my fair share of vehicles that’s been to 3-4 other shops that I was able to Diag. Yes some of them kicked me in the butt hard. Comes to R&R I can usually beat the clock. First 5 years I was a shop bull. Not that hack kind of bull😂
I feel like I'm the aspirational gst but currently dealing with being an under confident tech as well.
So far what I have found is I need to recognize what I don't know and accept I don't know it and especially parce out what I can find out and what I can't reasonably find out and work from there. Like I'm not gonna be ripping off a cat to physically inspect it and I right now don't have the equipment to test for excess back pressure from the engine to the cat to determine a clogged cat however I still do have the scan tool and can use graphed live data and 06 data to draw a good educated guess and eventually I can get the right equipment to test for excess back pressure like scanner danner does
But basically just do with what I can with what I have and accept everyone is just making educated guesses at this stuff and just do the best you can do and keep trying to learn new techniques and get equipment to apply them as I can
facts sir i am a diag tech but hot dam its hard to do 3.5 ford water pump in book time
You missed the Know it all GS that comes in young with a tiny bit of experience working in their driveway or their dad/uncle/grandpa was a tech and they think at 18-21 years old they’re already a master tech. Very arrogant but at the end of the day they’re just the baby but with the attitude of the old guy.
Yep, seen that guy before. Won’t ask for help and won’t take help when offered. Can’t fix anything either. They don’t last long.
@@ghostwrench2292 old farts talk a lot about what could be the problem instead of actual diag teaching, I stopped listening and only do it for entertainment unless you can show me data how you can approach a problem, otherwise stay in your lane and let me do the data driven tests.
FRM, you forgot to talk about those bumper to bumper guys, for example, you may have drivability guys. Electronic guys that specialize in ADAS and special electronics such as convertible tops, air suspension and such which is hydraulics or air driven bags, etc. Kind of needs to be broken down into those categories as well. Some may be efficient with drivability (engine mechanical) while others may be efficient with electronics and what not.
I’m an older tech and fall between the hybrid category of GS/Parts changer/Unconfident guy.
As soon as the dinosaurs retire they will be replaced with more.
Old Men Burnt out. Usually dealing with physical issues due to age. Loss of drive patience.
What kind of training can you go to as an independent tech?
I have a buddy that's the low confidence tech. I can't get him out of it. Hes been at a local high volume used car dealership several years. Hes a great worker but they wont let him advance because of it. They won't advance him because they cant find or keep anyone willing to do the hard, labor intensive or low hour jobs so they stick him with everything nobody else wants to do.
@@aaadamt964 It becomes a vicious cycle. Low hours drags down one's self image which in turn lowers motivation which reduces hours.
Nope, you have to do it all. Diagnostics everything or you probably won't be there long.
Today, even dealership techs do most everything. They had departments back in the 80s at large dealerships, but today there's not many dedicated driveability engine and transmission techs.
You diagnose it and YOU do the work. The only exception is oil lube techs and alignment shops. At Chrysler and most dealerships you have todo frontend and alignments too, everything. Just hope they don't sell tires or you'll be doing that too!
To be truly good at diagnostics one needs to be able to work outside the box. You must be able to fully understand the how the system works, all the components of the system and how each one works in conjunction with each other. Far too often a tech will just throw parts at the problem at your expense.
It takes time to study and understand any system that rolls into your bay, time you're not paid for. Customers just expect you to know everything about every vehicle, it's not humanly possible and to make it worse manufacturers change things every couple of years.
The Diag techs are analytical. So I can see where you are coming from. But when I was in the field I had one manager state quality not quantity. And nobody hates comebacks.
Are you in a new shop
There’s one more: the unemployable tech
what is any unemployable tech?
Can't pass a drug test
@@crasher88 a tech that is ready to start their own business. They’re at a point where they are losing more money by staying at a shop than to branch out on their own
That seems to be you Mario. You could start your own shop guaranteed and make it
@@philh9238 i don’t want a shop
You forgot the a tech that has no tools but it maybe only here in wedtern ak that carpenters dont own a tool belt and the company supplies tools for mechanics. I guess one reason i work alone still is im not buying tools for a journeyman tech. If you take your trade seriously you will be proud to own your own tools
Need make video about type of service manager
The old guy made me laugh , some are old guys before they are old , i call them tossers.
Who is going to replace the small shop owner ? Opening a small independent specialty shop is not easy but needed. Dealerships are charging way too much for doing very little. Even parts at above msrp. Shops are killing themselves when they don’t nurture talented technicians.
These parts the saying is: you a 100 hour tech with a $1 screw driver ( just get it done) OR a $1 tech with 15,000 scanner? 😅
Sad to say, but I'm probably not as good as I think I am.
The disaster corrector is where I've landed. Everthing seized, snapped off, no comm, no start, welding and or fab required etc. A straight forward repair is a rarity in my day to day. Fortunately my employer gets it and makes sure that I get paid for putting out fires.
I am in Canada. I have radical/conservative views. Please respond, I need to know how hard, I am being F-d with.
I'm the unconfident guy
Slower than a heavy line guy. More confident than the worried guy. Possibly better than the heavy line guy at diagnostics. Poorer than the parts changer.
Humble assessment
Tech b here
If you do not know how to fix the the issue and repair the issue after diagnosing the issue then you not a mechanic or a Tech in my mind you only learned half the job we do not need to split the trade in to parts or segments we need Techs and mechanics to learn how to do it all and o it well fast and proper to me doing this makes a weak industry and undertrained and educated People ....Look at me I can do it all and I can do it Right every time... makes you Valuable in demand ..
Sure you can bud. Who needs service data when this guy exists.
Only in the flat rate world does this talk come up. Efficient = crushing terrible flat rate times. Should be highly paid hourly like electricians , welders etc...