You need to stop before your ticker go s by by do your own stuff ONLY. Stress,Stress,Stress.

Hay have you ever shown someone how to do it and later on they try to tell you how to do it. Bin there dun that.

does a compression test oil up the pistons?

Awesome !!

No shortage, its just the pay, the juice aint worth the squeeze. Auto work becomes a hobby outside of work. So you have that option or start your own shop.

You forgot to mention, when u get paid for the 1/2 hr & it takes u 2hrs people keep bugging u about when it will b done! Awesome video! I left dealerships & after alot of searching found a great job in mining! Huge pay,respect & comradery! Retired now!

For every technician recommending this field - just ask them one question - Would you allow your children to get into this line of work. I am willing to bet the majority will say no.

My last 3 employer's have taught me, to run background checks on them. Also, at least three references from mechanics in the last year. Broken tire changers, everywhere. Stacked broken cars, everywhere. Everyone's got a six liter diesel ford that leaks oil or fuel they want you to snap your fingers over and make work because their best guy can't waste any more time on it. If you can just trust them for two more weeks of making them money, they promise to make it worth your while, and never will. Or they will rip your wiring out and blame you, excuses excuses excuses zero pay. Work out of your own driveway, f them.

Just pay problem if you don't pay people won't work for you

Good info.

Finding an honest mechanic is hard, too. A mechanic stripped my oil pan plug after he replaced an oil pan gasket, and he didn't own up to his mistake by telling me. I thought the place was reputable.

Shit job low pay have to buy all your tools hard work modern cars very hard to work on don’t do it.

Subarus are so dumb lol 4 camshafts for 16 valves

Can I ask, what happens if you drive the axle seal in too far?

My 13.and 15.yr daughters rebuilt turbo, clean egr replaced all fuel filters oil changes, tire changes, etc. They can't even drive yet.

I worked at a Honda dealership for 20 years as a technician. A salesman came out into my work area and started going through my toolbox looking for a screwdriver I said what do you think you’re doing? The salesman said well the dealership buys your tools right? He got a quick education on how much a Snap On screwdriver cost here. the sales people are making more money than the technicians are. It’s not right.

What front lip is on there?

Can you use a shop vac with a thin nozzle

-The customers are over charged. -The mechanics are under payed. -And the new vehicles are overly complicated, overly computerized, difficult to work on, & disposable.

Worked as a mechanic back in the early 2000's. Shop rate was $100.00 an hour. I made $12.00 / hr. An oil change pays 0.3 hours. Getting anything bigger than tire changes was an act of God. I would come in at 6:30am and start working whatever I could get and then after 4:30 I would start doing accessories in order to make enough to feed my family. I would be in the shop until 9:00 at night. I would work 14 hour days, for five days and then come in on Saturdays. All to get a forty hour paycheck. Yeah. Left the industry. Welcome to being an auto mechanic.

dealers want you to have all the specialty items now, the work isnt wrenching anymore either, its removing 83 things to test and replace an electronic thing haha. I graduated uti and never had any want to work on rate or hourly for a place that charges 3-5X for labor what they pay me

I have not seen a happy or healthy professional automotive technician. Why TF would anyone embark on that kind of fool's road fully knowing that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, unless he ran his own shop or was so desperate that his own well being no longer mattered?

This your best video congrats

no one is paying well. theres no incentive to play within the system. when you work for these mongers youre treated like garbage

Service advisor is the crappiest job at a dealer, used or new. The detailers are better off.

This completely reinforces my opinion of dealership repair shops

Dude, I'm right here. I fix all my own cars all the time. I have all the tools. I just don't wanna work for any shop that pays me peanuts.

I think it has to do with investment banks squeezing the money out of commercial real estate and making it expensive to own and insure a shop, and this makes it impossible to pay techs a competitive wage.

honda tech didnt even put a codder pin in on an service recall, they really don't give a shit about anything beside your money. With how poor of a deal new cars are now and most people buying korean, I think we are literally doomed. The customers and car companies are the knuckle dragging uneducated oafs who spend their money on vehicles like these. If the new car has ass-wiping assist, every obese boomer will spend half their retirement just to drive it back and forth to church. Need to take the kids to soccer practice? Why not spend 80 grand on mercedes or infinity crossover you will trade in for under 30 in 3 years, disgusting how the luxury class of buyers now encompasses the populist scum who want an ipad in their jaguar. I don't know if it's the industry reflecting the customer or the other way, but the fact is it totally alienates us who want a well built, reliable, and fun car.

Suddenly I now understand why everyone is driving a brand-new jellybean. Drive it until it breaks, roll the depreciation onto the new car's loan and move on.

Well that's what happens when you don't want to pay them shit and then every chance you get Jew them out of their money that's what's going to happen.

Yea, let me buy my tool cabinet, tools and scanners, smoke machine, and see if I wanna make 20 bucks an hour. Nobody wants to pay for a real tech. All the real techs do it at home on their own and if they've invested to start may as well invest in the shop too. The training is updated every model year. So you have to re-up continuously. And on top of that, the manufacturers love to make it where only dealerships can work on them. So most techs have to be at the dealer for new models, or buy updates over and over. You'd have to be drunk to wanna stay

Ford Dealership Technician for 5 years, quit in 2017. i put my all into the job, only to find the job didnt give a crap about me when things got difficult. the Flat-Rate pay system played a huge role in shattering my desire to ever work on cars ever again because if no work comes in, you cant pay your rent. and Dealership Warranty at the time i worked paid less than half of the hours they should have paid compared to if a customer paid for the same job. turnover and retention of employees, service writers, and service managers was a joke, and Upper Management had no freaking clue who among us was a decent worker and who was fudging numbers on work orders while smoking behind the building for half the day. i had all the tools, i had the training, i STILL have a work ethic and a drive to be honest, and pride that makes me want to do a job correctly and not cut corners... and i took all of that to a new career fixing equipment as a mobile mechanic for heavier industries. i'm happier, i drive all over the state, meet people, find decent places to grab food. i love it! and i have to thank the Automotive industry for simply showing a once-naive young mechanic how things SHOULD NOT be, to help motivate me to find a better job i actually wanna do with a boss that respects me and values my contributions 😎 they could offer me double-pay hourly-rate with overtime and i would still never go back to wrenching on cars, especially Fords. double-especially anything fully Electric, or German-made.

Techs that have knowledge, are worth $150,000

Great video!! Now let me add some issues in the fleet side of being a technician… so to begin with you have guys who are always being used and abuse while you have guys making the same hourly and are always hiding and never actually fixing anything, I have complained and what I was told was, a worry about yourself and b they have to have the number of techs to justify the amount of units per location.. another issue is you have tons of guys who don’t invest into tools and then you have supervisors asking you if you can let a guy who also makes per say 40 an hour to hold your tools so they can do their job 😂I always say no I’m good I don’t lend my property. Another issue is you have guy who will literally try and test drive or regen vehicles all day! Only to have a comeback and then assigned to the person who isn’t just clearing codes. Another issue is you having to do manufacture training and the job not giving you the time to do it And expect you to do it for free at Home. Another issue is that other shops that work for the same company will fix a vehicle enough for it to leave their shop and break down near your shop.. the guys who suck never get fired, all the “drive ups” go to the really good techs who are already working on way more trucks than the bad apple who is still working on the same truck for 3 days while your expected to finish 3 trucks a day….sucks almost everywhere you go but it’s always a management issue

I’m done after 30 years of hard work and training for nothing but minimal pay and daily harassment. ASE master EV certification Ca smog. No respect whatsoever. Every place is the same and when you speak up you get more harassment. The up and coming techs won’t have a chance.

scammer

Nobody wants to pay. I have 4 buddies that quit. Because it's not worth it. Dealerships are worse. It's basically a joke. It used to be a decent job. But those days are over.

Loyalty and trust are everything in life ! Excellent to be humble person of integrity. Never , never give up. Have the courage to do what is right. Lite the lamp of love and kindness. A heart of gratitude !!!

Click bait.

Are we now a country of fools that is painting ourselves into a corner?

This is so true, I’ve been working on cars In a shop for 25years and I told my son I don’t want him to work on cars they will treat u like a dog, go to college and do something else make a better life for yourself

The future is leasing. When it breaks down you trade it in for a new lease. mechanics training level and ability to fix things do not matter. The used car market will suffer since those are starting to wear and need someone to fix it. Eventually we will adopt the Japanese model of it breaks, you junk it and buy a new one. Junked car gets stripped for parts, shipped to USA as ballast and sold as JDM parts.

looks like hes the only one who knows evwrything 😂😂

scamster 😂

disgruntled employee 😂 dont trust this id io t

Don't need one, doing all the work myself.

RTV is no issue.. its a bullshit issue. Oil starvation is when you are cornering to the right at high G. RTV is no issue., but even the High G cornering oil starvation has been addressed by a high capactiy oil pan. you people are blowing things out of proportion... full of shit

Techs need to just start teaming up and pick up a defunct shop or dealership and lease the bays to other techs like barber shops.

I quit after 20 years and topped out at $37 an hour. I’m moonlighting at IT work now.