I went the opposite way. I worked at used car lots from high school, when back to school got my associates degree then started my own shop and ran it for 7 years. Lost interest got a flat rate job at a dealership. I’m kicking ass. My stress level is way down, my quality of life is way up. No customers to deal with, no old piles of crap to work on, help when needed, parking lot always full of late model good shape single brand cars, never ending work. clock out literally and mentally at 5pm. My experience makes the dealer work easy. They certified me after I started. I was flat rate by 8 months working with 2 lifts There is things I love and things I hate about it. I think about going back on my own all the time, or just getting my dealer license. Theres a lot of useless drama and feels like high school. I just keep my AirPods in and don’t stop moving, treating it like a money grab, get as much as I can as long as I can who knows what the future holds
@anthonynastasi4098
2 ай бұрын
Very good a great tech could do well
@mattlenz8554
2 ай бұрын
i starteed out at a dealer washin cars. got fired from the lube postion was not fast enough. went to a mom and pop as gst work there for 5 years thought i was not going any were career wise kinda wish i stay but the pay was shit. had to start all over again as lube tech a dealer at 23 got strung along on a promtion to line tech, was doing warranty jobs recalls brake jobs and other services that a regular line tech would do was not getting paid like one. i left and went to a truck dealer and make pretty decent money now. i think that the amount of time and money invested in tools ive would have maid 2x the amount of money doing somthing else. i like what i do to. i just think its just getting harder to find good places to work manegment makes or breaks these types of places. upper mangment just sees most guys as pawns and when there no use to them they get rid of em.
@TIREDOFEVIL
3 ай бұрын
So yes, I worked as a line mechanic for many years for Ford and some things never did change. Warranty work sucked because the cooperation set the labor hours for a job, period end of story which meant some engineer at headquarters in a perfect environment who most generally never touched a vehicle from the real world and didn't have a clue. In time I moved on to a franchised Firestone shop and yes, tires, brakes and suspension, did okay but there was never any training as technology moved forward. Ended up opening a small shop that I controlled what came in, hired a small crew eventually as business grew by word of mouth, and yes you can never please every customer. When I eventually retired working full time and by myself the stress was like night and day, I now enjoy once again doing what and excepting when to and when not to work, it's great.
@anthonynastasi4098
2 ай бұрын
@@TIREDOFEVIL thanks.man
@joecummings1260
3 ай бұрын
When I worked at Reedman in Langhorne, back when dinosaurs lived in bucks county, used car paid better than chevy service. Used car paid Chilton time, Chevy paid factory time
@anthonynastasi4098
3 ай бұрын
@joecummings1260 wow less warranty warranty bs complaints w new tech
@joecummings1260
3 ай бұрын
@@anthonynastasi4098 The light dudy techs a lot of time made more than us too. They got brakes and shocks, we'd have head gaskets and transmission rebuilds. I think they only made like one dollar less. Brake jobs then were total gravy, and the light duty guys got almost all of that
@anthonynastasi4098
3 ай бұрын
@@joecummings1260 I would quit no way would I work on bs jobs whole they more money and easy work
@joecummings1260
3 ай бұрын
@@anthonynastasi4098 Yeah I did, and went next door to Arrow Motors, the AMC/Jeep/Renault dealer. They were great people, but the shop got slow for a bit and I went back to working on mostly heavy trucks. Those damn LeCars with their 3 lug nuts and having to pull the head to replace the starter kinda bothered me too. I was a kid and into American iron
@williammouri1096
3 ай бұрын
Ford Boss is a lot younger than you. Meaning, he has gotten burned a couple times and hasn't found his best fit yet. You could give some good advice to him. Wrenching is easy. It's all the related BS that sucks.
@vicmanjw
2 ай бұрын
“She’s stacked” awesome.. unrelated to this video. Quick question related to your 2018 Chevy Traverse exhaust leak video. I have a 2018 Traverse over at the stealership right now with very similar problems to the one in your video. Front cat cracked and needs front crossover pipe. 78900 miles. They won’t cover under warranty, been through Chevy customer support (basically useless) and currently trying to escalate. Any advice on how to get approved for warranty repair since under 80000 miles?
@alexandergunaka666
3 ай бұрын
You took the words out my mouth but didn’t expand on it. If you have ADHD get in a busy shop. I hate cars with a passion, I never had car posters, I don’t talk about cars, I have no dream of building my dream car from the ground up, etc. BUT I like working on it for others. I need chaos and turning it into controlled chaos, I love that you it’s physically impossible to know everything, I love the pressure of how much it could go wrong money and customer anger wise, and even tho my shop is not book hours my guys still have a reason to get the car done quick even being hourly because we also add commission based on percentage of labor completed (plenty more benefits but that’s a different comment) cuz they get decent bonus and their hourly is not shorted by much if any of what they could make elsewhere giving straight hourly. This allows me to also add more to my controlled chaos because I have guys in way you don’t get at the dealer and get to teach them that. Which is they can take time and learn if they get ahead on a car without worrying about making ends meet. It’s still their choice, but the older guy may have a 20 min gap where will got tech too. That’s not mentioning the older guys don’t mind doing the big jobs, they actually would rather do them. Too finish the rant if I stayed withbcomouter science in the silence around people I can’t relate too but was a natural at id hate my job more than just the same struggles we all have. ADHD at a certain age should come with an introduction to the auto field 😂
@dstephens1974ds
3 ай бұрын
Dealer and back street are two totally different jobs with different skills required. I have always hated the job but leaving dealers and not having to listen to boardroom staff waffling their own self importance led me to the lesser of two evils
@joecummings1260
3 ай бұрын
What do you get out of buying a franchise as opposed to just buying a building and being A&N Auto?
@anthonynastasi4098
3 ай бұрын
@@joecummings1260 oil changes Advertising coupons discounted services. free lost leaders adds .Brand name . Telephone number.
@joecummings1260
3 ай бұрын
@@anthonynastasi4098 Marketing. Be nice if they had cooperative buying deals on stuff like garage keepers, employee health, parts, and supplies. Like I knew a guy from Newtown who owned 2 independent supermarkets, and he was part of a buying cooperative with other small independants. Gave them some leverage over the suppliers
@abw121
3 ай бұрын
I enjoy your videos….but your talking to the camera and your not aware of the background noise from the street and your own noise causes the viewer to stop watching? Invest in a wifi Bluetooth microphone to pick up your voice up and deaden the background noise.
@fastinradfordable
2 ай бұрын
Welcome to every day of The rest of our lives as mechanics. ❤
@Savageitright
3 ай бұрын
4.5 years ago Rainman got let go from dealership.
@Savageitright
3 ай бұрын
@@richardbicker640 Not talking about from Pit Stop but for Chevy Dealer two years earlier.
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