This was stupid. 🤣 "I don't use aftermarket filters. The End"

User error. (1) Do NOT use an impact gun on the drive bolt with this or any on-wheel bearing press kit. Use a ratchet or breaker bar s-l-o-w-l-y on the bolt with a wrench on the coupling nut to ensure the appropriate plates & sleeves in the kit are properly aligned while pressing out the old bearing & especially pressing in the new bearing. (2) Lubricate the bolt & nut threads plus washer generously with anti-seize or engine assembly lube before use. (3) For commercial shop use, swap out the washer with a thrust drive bearing (also lubed). (4) The bolt and coupling nut are SAE 1.25", but a 32mm socket & wrench work fine. - Never had a thread galling issue with the Astro Pneumatics 78825 kit using these rules.

I only worked at a dodge dealership for month they were so deceitful to the customers I packed up my tools , boss says were you going Why , you guys are just thieves I can't work here any longer okay good by , went to work in the mines heavy equipment never been happier retired in 2013 , now I get to work on my own stuff and a few customer cars at my desecration life is good ,.

how do i get that battery test mode i tried to look for it on the pico couldnt find it is it built into the pico 6 and 7 ? or a seperate software?

Rubbish tool not worth the money i regret buying it i like snap on tools but seriously this was not a good investment.

very interesting on the Astro nano. thanks

I have ODIS with my independent company

If you want to save money on triple squares, get a long 14 for engine mounts and 8,10,12 for regular and stubby

helpful video

I dont mind spending a few minutes to get the room to work i laugh at the guys who wont properly lift a vehicle to a hight that one can comfortably get under to work efficiantly. Kind of the same as pulling the seat. I ask how can you do the job with no range of motion

Dave's Auto Center is a scam of course he pays his techs good he literally makes bank by overcharging customers. Mr. Subaru called him out over a video of him charging a suburu engine replacement for $15K when it should have been $5K tops!

As a flat rate tech, I would never let a flat rate tech touch my vehicles…

I’m a fairly new shop owner. This video was helpful thanks. Will check out your channel

Flat rate incentivizes sloppy work 😢

I haven't worked flat rate since 2014. I _could_ , but I *won't* , I could make more per hour too, (slightly) flat rate, but I won't. Considering moving to a 4 day a week shop, with a little salary drop, because I'd rather have time, than money...

Hourly techs arent lazy the service manager will be on your behind, I will never take flat rate system 60 percent aint bad efficiency rate 😅😅😅😅

Be a USPS mechanic.

The downsides of a busy flat rate shop: politics, personality conflicts & profit obsession.

Battery ratchet is by far the single best and most used tool i used in my day to day

Nice video. Where did you get the peg wall? I like it!

Witte, Wera, Wiha, Vessel. NOS Napa was all Witte, they are all over the place in my shop.

All the shops are the same. Time to leave this industry. Shitty pay, shitty benefits and shitty management.

It hurts pride and makes you feel bad of course he learned a lesson but that's part of it were not perfect.

Management is the problem.

We start at 30$ hr flat rate. Not to bad for arkansas

"None of us are as good as we think" . Everyone can improve and should show clear evidence of efforts to improve. The very best indication of shop integrity are long standing return customers and highly competent, long tenured employees. My input after 43 years in. Thanks for your thought provoking (and controversial !) commentary.

I’ve been at it for 13 years on semi truck repair. I had a guy I knew well telling me about flat rate and how I’d never go back if I tried it. He showed me what he was making, I ate it up. Left a job I liked, confident it was the right choice to make a big jump in pay since I was at a municipal highway repair shop where benefits are great but pay not so much. I went to a big truck dealer, and lasted 6 months before going back to a higher paid hourly job. I had a few really good weeks with 50-60 hour checks. But also some as bad as 18-20 hours. Work got slow, if your liked well by management you’ll get plenty of work, warranty work sucks, and most everyone who’s done it knows the rest. Never again.

You don't work on class. Ic cars either obviously.

With rust most of the time we just replace certain components. Not worth fighting with it then it's junk anyway

Confidence is key. But, slow parts guys and service advisors kill me daily. I love the way he is talking. This is common sense. Something I have been preaching. Give me 3-4 hours of diag in the morning. Sell the jobs order parts and let me bang them out and go home. Why would I pull apart a car and disable it in my bay and not be able to move it. It wouldn't be to bad but the bay efficiency at my shop sucks.

Today’s cars are so technologically advanced. So a proper diagnosis should come first before someone automatically starts throwing the parts canon then passes it on to the consumer finding out it didn’t fix the problem.

Where is the video? His website doesn't really show the costs for anything.

Thats a rip off

How about a fan for you that way you’re not sweating lol

Can you do a video on shops not giving out a Christmas bonus when the business was most definitely profitable but the owner wants to vacation out of state while we work in the shop on Christmas Eve til 4 Pm. SMH. I’m BURNED OUT!! I’m sick of this industry!!

I just got the first style you showed , will be trying it on a 2015 ford taurus ,.

This was not information on you really like hearing yourself talk it was hard to put all the information together

Even though we may not agree with the method, we will agree that starving. A bad technician of work in many cases, will make them leave .... Which is the goal anyway correct?

Just do transmissions

"Unfortunately" when your the boss, and you know in the back of your head what nut has to be cracked at the end of individual weeks, we tend to give the "better, harder" jobs to a tech that has the experience because it's going to be a better guarantee that the bills will get paid, just a sad fact.... Though, if time permitted, I always give those jobs to apprentices, so they can learn too.

ive been in concrete for 30 yrs and i started at $6/hr and i now make, with salary and bonuses and side work, $100k/yr......only working 8-9 months of the year. i dont work in the winter because you cant pour concrete when theres 3 ft of snow on the ground and its -10 degrees out. dont fall for the college lie unless its a trades school. dont go into debt for underwater basket weaving, lesbian dance theory or some idiotic "degree" that has no real world application. get your foot in the door, start at the bottom, keep your nose to the grindstone and work your way up in your field/trade. the two most important things is to never get a chip on your shoulder or thing youre irreplaceable....because your not AND learn to love your job. get to the point where you want to get to work early and get your things ready instead getting there "on the dot" an waste 10-20 mins getting ready to work. for me, if im not early, im late.

Techs that get the bad jobs that no one else can fix should make more per bad job that he does.

My father owned a garage for over 50 years. He used chrome sockets almost exclusively. We used CP air impacts and ran pretty high air pressure. We never had a big problem of sockets breaking, I remember one or two sockets that cracked the whole time I worked there, and we didn't have a problem with chrome flaking either. Working on engines there was frequently not much room to fit sockets in there so the smaller sockets were an advantage, sometimes were necessary. If you're using a cheap brand of chrome sockets then maybe you should use impact sockets instead.

Judging by how you morons in the south drive, its an operator problem, not a mechanic problem. Your brakes don't get any additional heat because of your ambient temps or humidity, your people run the pads to paper thin dimensions and cause the grease to burn up.

Nice scan tool. How many do you have, what brands, which one do you think is better?

You are right,

How need how , you have the up hand

Man I would not put up with this shit for one damm minute,

Tell the dealer, this what you will pay me