I used to occasionally work on cars on the side and I don't like doing it anymore. Things are too complicated. Expensive scanners. Too many manufacturer specific problems you have to know about. Parts prices increased. Plus just the time you have to spend working on them. I still do like walking around a junkyard and fixing a simple quick issue from time to time. I feel bad about turning people down because I never overcharge and try to do a good honest job, but..... No mas.
Dealers are not place for honest people to work in general doesn’t matter which department you work one is worse than another. I know it’s not easy lots of favorites, more you recommend unnecessary services or parts more you close management heart. Be patient just work and try you get your all ASE’s and do all your e- modules push management to send you all factory training become master tech if they don’t pay you what you want find place where they can pay you what you want or move up find government job.
I was told that by one of my co-workers. Im on the fence and don't really know if thats what I want to do. Makes me feel like a hypocrite if I do. I also don't support the direction the field is taking either. but unfortunately i need money to survive just like everyone else in this world. so i don't know
Man when you said that we’re gonna start putting different engines in different cars, I felt that because as an example for a Q50 turbo engine swap is like $10,000 if you put the older versions engine, you’re probably gonna get up till like three to $4000 with the wiring harness and everything else needed it going to run even better putting the old engine in the new car with the new transmission than the new engine
hell, for some cars id even run carburetors just because of the fact that i can manually control how my engine runs. every new generation of car takes more and more away from consumer control. and people who use there cars like utensils are confused on why they cant afford new cars and why repairs are expensive. the generation toyota tacoma before the latest one out now was perfect. WHY DID THEY CHANGE IT. its unnecessary changes for what. they aren't more efficient. they are more problematic. so what, people are more addicted to apple car play then actual vehicle repair costs and reliability?
I agree. I worked at a few mechanic shops, but I loved most of my coworkers, but yes, a few of them were fucking assholes who were always causing beefy arguments and unnecessary drama. I now work at Advance Auto Parts I love all my current coworkers, but absolutely hate my stor’s general manager. He had a multiple beefy arguments with one of my female managers who I loved, was tons of fun, chill, laid back, and had a great sense of humor. She wanted to do her job in a creative, efficient way that she was comfortable with, but the general manager wanted her to do things his way and they had intense beef because of it, causing her to quit. This general manager at my store is a fucking asshole who is strict as fuck and has no sense of humor whatsoever. I hate his shitty guts after what he did to my female manager. He also tried to rush me to stock up parts inventory, which almost caused me to have a panic attack in the store. What’s worse is that my mom, dad, and brother want me to be kind to him, which really fucks me up like shit. I’m just going to stay away from him and have my coworkers report to him for me.
they want you to buy cars like people buy phones, you dump everything you have to buy a brand new one then after a few years you replace it for the newest hot thing and are designed to not be repaired or maintained
It wasn't engine work, but I worked on a friends Hyundai Elantra that had the bights for the head lights stop working. The car had less than 10k miles on it. Come to find out, all new Elantras use a lens on a servo to adjust the focal point of the light to simulate just having an extra bulb in the head lamp assembly. The servo hooks onto a gear that is made out of ABS with no fiberglass reinforcement so the gear melts half the time after prolonged usage if you commute a long way on back roads at night. Oh by the way, this is one of the only parts not covered on their warranties. I replaced the entire assembly twice for her ($400) before just giving up. I ended up drilling a hole in to the assembly, gluing the lens in place and adding a new fuse and wire lead. Then I ended up having to 3d print an attaching assembly to hold a new light that would serve for brights. I had to figure out how the heck to rewire the servo circuit to trigger a relay instead which was an entire other rabbit hole. The lights have never had a problem minus the occasional bulb replacement since and its been 60k+ miles now. But seriously, why do modern engineers try to reinvent the wheel for everything?? I don't even work on cars for a living. I work in software engineering and I see the same thing happening. The same programs need more RAM, more CPU resources just to do the same thing that it did 10 years ago. What does windows 7 do that windows 10 doesn't? Why does the same web page need 60MBs to load when it only need 1-3MB 10 years ago. All this bad engineering is going to catch up to us at some point. It really worries me to be honest.
very innovative and smart what you did. did you see if there where any aftermarket headlights that had no servos in them? all of this tech is supposed to be the future, but the future is looking pretty grim considering servos in headlights are uterly pointless. technology is being cranked out like hotcakes and we don't have any plans to streamline what we have and instead we changed things that don't need to be changed and call it "progress". people are becoming stupid and cars are catering to those types of people because of government standards and greed. it worries me too
The vehicle companies slammed the hood on the average joe years ago , forcing average joe to go to mechanic Jim. Now Jim is incrementally being forced out.
@@ryandeboer9584 but wouldn't it be great if instead of owning a car, you simply rented one from the state or dealership?? they could handle all the maintenance for a small monthly fee! why bother shopping around for the best deal, just come to us and give us your money
This is exactly why I’ve taken on doing most of my own maintenance and repair work. I’ve learned a lot and saved a ton of money. This exposure is greatly appreciated as it reinforces what I’ve felt for a long time.
Im not agree with your opinion, I think you are looking at Initial D through a nostalgia lense, being objective in Intial D first season at the end of 12 episodes we have only two races 1v1 in a course no longer than 8 Km and in MF Ghost we have a quali and a race between 15 cars in a course 40 Km long. In my opinion MF Ghost is a good sequel to Initial D. In MF Ghost we have a decent story, lots of fast cars, similar piont of view where an underpowered car battles agaist more powerfull cars and a good animation.
Best thing to do is get out of the industry. Employers and the public have been spoiled by an over saturated labor pool for too long. Mechanics have been propping up the failing automotive industry for the last 50 yrs. They’ve relied on car culture to lure young people in thinking it’s going to be a cool rewarding job, then bury them in debt combined with low wages and unreliable salaries to lock them in. It’s hard to make a move when you’re broke, and they know this. Don’t fall for it! The only way this industry is going to get any better is if we stop showing up.
The book says 8 hours. And doesn't factor in another 4 or more hours of taking crap off that's in the way. Or why the heck do I need to removed a whole dash to do this? Or what do you mean I basically have to take my front clip off to change a radiator? I drive and maintain older vehicles because of this. Now if they released the Hilux champ in the US. So I didn't have to do some weird kit car title on one mexico to import it. I'd probably get one. Radio and Ac are options on these vehicles. So basic. Also only about two min into the video.
Get out while you can brother I quit last year after 27 years of being a mechanic, I got priced out, teched out,,,I couldn't afford to keep going,,,good luck
I would kill to be paid- (APPROPRIATE TO MY SKILLS) hourly, for sake of doing q u a l i t y jobs. Instead of constantly looking for ways to cut corners.
As an owner of a restoration shop. I agree with you and have nothing to add haha. I remember when I learned about "flat-rate" and thought to myself "how humiliating that must be" because it strips any pride of repair from the technician. I 110% refuse to support flat-rate businesses, it's the signifier of an abhorrently greedy and self-serving company. Your 23, I'm 26. I'm much happier in my small business where I record every job for the customer in a stupidly honest and open way. Business has been great because of fed up customers. Great video.
Cars are designed to be unbelievably insane to maintain and work on these days. 2004+ is when it really started getting out of hand in terms of maintenance. If you work on cars/comission? Fuckin hell I wish you luck. I do it every day in the body industry and f u c k are new cars a nightmare. The insurances company’s won’t pay you dickfuck for labor time and all the self pay jobs are don’t with the bare minimum in mind- AT REQUEST!… you’re eating shit on your pay or you’re turning out half ass work because nobody can afford decent body work these days. Buddy, I am also in my early 20’s and feel you on every single point. One way or another we’re gonna make it work, but somethings gotta give or we’re gonna break.
I think mechanics are going to go into a big boom in the industry soon. I will reverse engineer or what people say "hack" anything together with these newer cars and make them work better then the factory. Don't worry it's gunna give and the whole industry is gunna crash. all the auto manufactures are going to reconsider when they are bleeding more money than they are now.
Government fleet hourly is the way to go if you have counties that pay well . Left the dealer flat rate world 10 years ago , now salary 90k plus overtime opportunities .
i couldn't agree with you more. that would be the logical way to go, but my morals about how the government does shit makes me upset. it's worse enough i work at a corporation of morons. fuck the government
My older brother was a manager of a Monro muffler about a year or so ago. He was paid a modest salary but they expected 55 hours a week from him, so if you do the math he wasnt making very much per hour. 3/5 of his technicians left. Not because of him (he bought them lunches and was good to them.) but because the work just sucked. Corporate wouldnt let him hire anyone for over $17/hr. A technician could LITERALLY go to Mcdonalds across the road and make *the same amount of money.* My brother eventually quit and the location went out of business for about a month until they found another manager to slowly kill.
Im surprised monro mufflers are still around. where im from they are mostly all gone. yeah it sucks now. a lot of places are doing that. my old job at a firestone was like that. super poor levels of management
I know it sux.. I work at a dealership from 1997-2010. The warrany work paid like crap. I would be there 11 hours a day and most the time take home 7 or 8 hours of pay. They would give the one guy with kids all the high paying work, and screw the rest of us. The manager wanted me to work on his clunckers from the 1980's, and would get mad when I didn't want to. I finally quit.
Brakes are easy to do, almost as easy as an oil change. And when you do it yourself, it costs maybe $50-100 for all 4 pads. The very first time you do it, it costs a bit more up front for the tools but it pays off the next time you do it.
05 corolla is 14mm for the calipers and i believe a 17mm for the brackets. not super hard but make sure if it's your first time you do it one step at a time
im an ex-chrysler tech that went to honda. now i make really good money and work 4 days a week. Being a mechanic is still worth it you just need to either go japanese, german or indie
Yep. My 2012 car has 33 control modules. Imagine the complexity and potential for failure that adds. It has currently been in the workshop for 1 week with the official service centre to diagnose a fault and the car is so complicated even they can't figure it out. The people that made the product don't understand their own product.
4 mins in to this video and you are my spirit animal. 8 years doing this, 7 in dealers. now i do mobile fleet maintenance with a fitted out truck only doing easy stuff and getting paid fat hourly. the awesome jobs are out there if you just get your ASE's. best part is you work alone - no retards
to me the issue is that dealerships and big brands don’t care about the owner of the car, they simply care about the numbers, and cars are everyday more and more expensive, no one repairs anything, they just substitute pieces, they don’t know how things works, they simply say let change bits and pieces until it works…
Worked in a shop for 15 years, barely made anything. Ran my own shop for 5 years, and started an early retirement. If you want to find joy in this trade, open a specialty shop and work for yourself.
it's very expensive nowadays to get going on your own. if a friend was able to help rent a garage space out with you and start a business together that's the way to go. it's not impossible to start on your own but it's just a bit more difficult.
There is a group starting up near my place. One of them has a large lot and that is enough room to queue up a few cars and start to get after it. There is a ton of work that requires a special scanner, or special tools. They do what they can and hopefully will sneak through and grow.
This reminds me of that old mechanic story about owner who just bought his boat. He can't start it. The boat won't turn over so he calls a mechanic and the mechanic inspects it after arriving. He looks around at the motor for about 15 minutes and he pulls out a small hammer from his tool bag. He taps a little bit here and he taps a little a little bit there and the boat turns over and starts. He gives the boat owner the invoice and it says $5,000. The customer screams saying "$5,000!? All you did was just look at it a little bit and tap with a little hammer Why are you charging me so much?!" The mechanic says look at the bottom of the invoice where it's itemized. The boat owner looks down at the invoice and it says ",labor: $5 - knowing where to tap with hammer: $4995" Basically the knowledge was a gift for us mechanics. That's all gone now from people who either cheat customers by deception or don't know what they're doing because they just refer to a manual. Electric cars also took us out of business. And you and I both know that these electric cars are very cheap products made of junk.
ha, thats a funny way to put it. i see all electric prius' come into the shop and mechanics are changing the entire wiring harnesses daily. takes them all day and it's a 4 hour job. these electric cars are junk. I don't think it's the electric cars that put us out of business though. Gas is king and people still drive majority gas cars. I think it's a bunch of reasons why the industry is shitting the bed. Electric cars are some of the blame but only some not all
