I'm a licensed mechanic on class 8 tractors. A customer of ours that has a delivery truck for candy and trail mixes brought their truck in for ABS issues. As always I made sure to get the diagnosis right, even though this issue was intermittent and I couldn't get it to fault on a test drive. I checked everything, load tested wires etc. and determined that the tone ring on the rotor was bad. The next day the customer stopped by to thank us for getting the truck done quickly and without misdiagnosing like previous shops had. I never saw the customer since I'm working in the shop. I went to go ask the service writer a question and they're all eating gummy worms with that company's brand on the package. In the eyes' of the customer and service department the mechanic is nothing but an expense.

Do not come, do not come… 😂

Carlito don't spit apples in people's faces anymore.

Last guy ftw buy cheap and upgrade when it breaks 👏

So i ll becomes good at my job too

Dont be a mechanic it sucks .

Always go into the snap on tool truck. Go in there and buy overpriced snap on tools for the fun of it

Vw tech 2nd year south africa 🇿🇦

I have everything except 4 and can say they’re all great and reliable brands

Change careers. It's not worth it

Plastic rivets.... you mean plastic clips, panel clips, etc.

Suck it

This feels like alcoholics anonymous

Funny I'm no professional and use the trim tools often. Guess it depends on what you're working on

I love it when these companies conduct surveys and procede to do absolutely nothing with them when they get feedback they don't like, 'We want to do better for our employees, as long as it doesn't cost us anything'. Thank god I left the industry when I did.

Auto mechanics make money?

My favorite tool is in my pants

This The Weeknd’s brother The Workweek

I'm just some random dude trying to get some nachos money. "Will work for Nachos"

Giving people peace of mind, protecting them and their family as well as their wallets and giving them the satisfaction that their car is going to be right once it leaves. When a car comes in and it’s not doing so hot and you can send it out feeling like a new car, or that feeling you get when you get someone’s car running again. Wouldn’t trade it for the world.

This is my advice.. dont be an auto tech... The price for tools + experience & skill to make a decent amount...if you were to pit that effort in a different career youill get waaay better a head in life... Automotive career is b.s nowdays... you swap a complete engine, refill anf test drive for everything & you get paid same amount a plumber make for changing a shower head../ electrician installing a switch board.

Dave is a great friggin guy. We miss him at Ford.

Man, I'm brazilian and I have an interest in cars, I have some money saved, do you think I should pay for an automotive mechanics course (an in-person/classroom course) or buy an old car to work on small deliveries services? Those two options doesn't leave my mind, but I have money just for one of them 🤔 Sorry for my bad english

Quit now while ur aheaf

2nd guy is a donut. Piss off

Love makita

Good advice here, but as a tech that left the field after being promoted to management: learn how to fucking read and don’t blame people for getting upset when you don’t/can’t follow instructions.

My advice: Don't show up

new to the field why is listening to others the most important advice, are mechanics really that egoistic?

I would have a big problem, different tool on my minde!

What tool box brand is that?

Dying profession

Nicks handmade boots or blundstones

Nothing worse than a deadbeat tech with poor credit, no savings, always wanting help/borrowing tools.... Seen a tech, 10 years in with $800 worth of pawn shop shit tryin to pass of as a good tech... Annoying.

Run... Dont get into automotive. Heavy duty maybe...

Stay away from the job you have to buy ur own tools and not annual pay rises at main dealer I quit and just tow them in now more money no stress and all equipment provided and annual pay rise was a tech for 15 years that 15 years of waisted time for low money buying tools you can never get back

Humble

RUN AWAY! Get into residential electrical/hvac....

Redwings are garbage. The nearly $300 made in America, all leather. First pair lasted 6 months, Redwing replaced them no charge. The next pair lasted 6 months. Once you work in the leather, they're comfy but couldn't make them last before the leather started going bad

Harbor freight until you break something then upgrade it

I've been a tech for almost 3 months and I've spent about 3 grand so far

That piston looks like someone welded the entire surface of it then proceeded to beat the piss out of it with a sledgehammer

What degree do I study for to be an engineer???

It’s your favorite but u only use it 10-20 times? And you’re a mechanic? Like doing like a handful of bolts a day that’s barely used

“We have Eric Andre at home”

Lol, fk that, leave this miserable trade, FACT!

Great info. My district is attempting to establish a CTE satellite campus

You should redo this and get a 5 min interview from each tech. I’d watch that!

Can you please come to my workshop.