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Honestly, it’s been good for me because I treat the shops as disposable. I usually work at a place for about 18 months and save up some money and then quit to go on a trip or do a personal project or something. I don’t see any other way as the shops never offer more than 2 weeks per year vacation and that isn’t enough time to rest your body in this job. The best thing about being a good tech is that I can get a decent paying job any time I want one. The resume gaps have never been an issue.

i was looking at going pro in the 90s . i learned about flat rate.... no i started out on 70s vehicles , broke off bolts are common on them that take an entire day for me to worry about a day....

You sound like all the useless kids that came and went in every shop I've worked at. You spend more time looking for wrongs than fixing problems. I think you did everyone a favor by leaving.

Folks, flat rate worked in the 60s, 70s (maybe 80s) at the latest! When a tune up, was "really" a tune up! Points and condenser, timing light, distributor caps and rotors, manually adjusting timing, overhauling wheel cylinders, slave cylinders and master cylinders, turning flywheels, rotors and drums! Starter spinning and won't engage? Remove the starter, replace the starter drive and reinstall the same starter! Overhauling alternators! Making power steering and air conditioning hoses in house! THAT my friends is when flat rate worked! In this R&R throw away, recycle world these days, flat rate sucks immensely! Like the host says, get you some kind of fleet/municipal job if you enjoy turning wrenches! Yeah, I'm old!🔧👍

Making some of the most money as i ever had in my life with flat rate. Unfortunately its Hella stressful and complete bullshit. The amount of money I am producing for them can easily afford them to pay me more then 25% of the door rate (like it was 50/50 back in the day). The part that annoys me the most is that the company is the only one who benefits 100% of the time. The technician can make good money yes, but at the expense of joint injuries, owning tools, etc... while the customer is always getting bent over and fucked! I am not saying that i think the customer should pay less on all jobs, but a lot of the time it simply doesn't make sense. If you can finish a job consistently in half the book time, why is the book time so high? Because the technician is just as greedy as the shop, yet has no balls to call the shop out on the BS because they themselves are hypocrites pretending its "fair".

You say free??

Soon China cars are all over the world and carctech will be gone because in the near future China cars will be disposable. After using 5 yrs or so you need to buy new car again .

flat rate is NOT broken. over my 50 years in the industry I made a lot of money honestly, often over 100K a year. the problem in dealerships is the way technicians are treated and abused. warranty rates is another thing...that is the car company taking money out of tech's pockets to pay for engineer mistakes.

Hi tech shd be MODULAR

YES

Ok so you described your work history, but what was the reason you quit? Seems like a fairly normal trajectory to me.

Ben there. Dealership are evil!

I love your videos keep it up

I was employed in the automotive repair industry from the early 1980's until 1996. It was fun at the, but honestly i don't miss the smashed and cut fingers, greasy hands that were never really clean, etc. I always had a strong mechanical aptitude since i was a kid, working on lawn mowers and motorcycles. The only work i do know is for myself, friends, and neighbors. I'm proud to say that I NEVER sold a service that was not needed and treated customers right, and had many repeat customers. The industry has changed so much since then, no way would I get back into this field.

Very simple, car mechanic not high paying job. 😒😒

The industry is crazy, glad you can warn others before they fall into the same scam! We need more good and honest mechanics

I think you’re correct, good mechanics are getting harder harder to find. For this reason. (And some more) I’ve been fortunate with the shop I am in, I have, and still am making good money at flat rate. But something needs to change. Dealerships are looking towards rehabilitation programs for someone to fill the spot (felons, etc). Then trying to push it more by funding tuition for younger students. Society wants to stay a throw away society, it’s why Tesla does not want a service center. It’s not sustainable yet we think it is and there will come a time where the right to repair hopefully takes precedence. When? How? Where? I wish I could be there right now.

So how does starting a busines work in the states? Here if you want to live nice you work part time at a shop for the benefits and do you own stuff in your own garage on the side for the money, loyal customers get that "envelope" discount if you know what i mean😉

So is like having 800 after bills considered bad ower there?

To anyone out there who has a passion for being a mechanic here is a good plan: Go to school and become a mechanic, then open your own business instead of working for someone else. While you're in school you should be working on your credit by filling out for credit cards with high interest rates (Because you're not going to get a low interest rate card when you first start out), and use this credit card to only purchase small items you normally buy like food and make sure you pay it on time every month so that you don't have to pay extra. This way building your credit is free and it doesn't charge you anything. By the time you get out of School with your mechanic diploma you will already have good credit. Next borrow money from the bank and open up a car lot where you can buy your own vehicles fix them and make a shitload of money. My plan avoids all of the things this mechanic complained about. Mechanic work can make you good money but just like any job if you're working for someone else you're not going to climb the ladder of success because they're only giving you crumbs off of their table. The trick is to be the guy who owns the table. Good luck 😉

The story about changing wheel bearings every 5 years and you had a problem with it because the manufacturer said they where "lifetime warranty" I don't think it's a big deal, just change them. Having two wheels fsll of isn't what should have stopped thrm from doing preventative maintenance, it should have been the question: "who and why did our techs fuck it up and how can we prevent those mistakes in the future?"

I had government with union and got 30/hr. A family member is a diesel mechanic and electrician for diesel trucks and he makes $80K a year with union benefits, pension, can claim weeks paid off but he has to travel state to state doing the jobs he's sent to. They also pay for your certs and send you It really matters where you work. Flat rate jobs are not worthvit unless you're at the right shop and are the favorite. You can also do Mobile mechanic like Mathew Parker on UA-cam but his income isn't the standard and it takes time to build into that.

I'm 25 and I was a mechanic at an Audi dealership for 1.5 years and it turned me off from ever becoming a mechanic again. Literally the first week I was there, all the older career mechanics were telling me that becoming a mechanic was the worst decision they ever made and to find a different career. Mind you, these guys were 20+ year career mechanics that had worked on various brands. Do not become a mechanic.

the last story you gave happens in pretty much every industry. It's been years since I've done manual labor work but that issue is much worse in the corporate world. If you aren't in the C-suite, then it's a constant game of making sure that you aren't in the top pay bracket for middle or lower upper management, since those are the positions that are always targeted first for removal whenever lay-offs come around....and lay offs always come around at least once every 5 years, so you gotta stay under the top pay for whatever job you're doing and if you make it into the top bracket for the job you're doing, you better be looking out for a different position that you can enter where your current pay will be the bottom of the pay bracket........everyone in every corporate job I know deals with this - and it makes sense that it happens that way throughout every skilled labor job as well. The company has to make money so it's not in their interest to be hiring employees at the top of their pay scale for whatever position it is and then bumping them along quickly, because usually the employees who want a lot more than what you might normally pay for their position won't be happy if they get a promotion but their pay only increases by 5-9% in the promotion. (which is what would happen because now you've been moved into a position where your old pay rate was probably already the starting salary for the new position, if not close to the middle range and it'll tick off every one else who's already working in the new position you just got moved to if somebody gets promoted up and immediately they're making more money)........so yah...it's frustrating as an employee but it's understandable if you look at it from the perspective of someone who has to manage all of these employees across all of those positions.

union people who ever only ever worked in the union usually have a super skewed view of what "hard work" is and they always think they're the most overworked people in the world.....and of course many of them do work very hard but they never have the ethic of someone who hasn't spent most of their career working for a union. Union employees who come into the private sector are some of the most difficult employees to manage.

That cobra 😍

Learn how to work on your own things. Too much work, too little pay.

I saw a video last night from another tech that said the same thing about the shop being mad at him for being injured and not being able to lift heavy stuff for a little bit

My Dad R.I.P. was a life long Mechanic thru the 50s 60s 70s and 80s working on everything from Eurooean, domestic a Toyota tech from 69 till 77 The one thing he told me " If you become a mechanic, Ill kick your ass" I listrned.😉❤️

When the sales people make 2-3 times what the mechanics make, big red flag.

That's enough sealant for 4 transfer cases. I agree that your experience was one I've heard many times. I've been a mechanic since 1981, but rarely did it for a living, just fill in jobs between engineering contractor gigs. Fortunately I brought most of my work home to my personal shop for X dollars and did not need to deal with the A-hole service writers.

i was Mechanic for 32 year i had enough and walked away

leaks gone?

That was way too much sealant....

I was a mechanic for 20 years and now i'm a electrician better pay and less headache

Nice content!

Congrats on an eventful 2024! 1000 subs coming up quick!

Good videoo

If you want to be a mechanic, and you have your own tools, then forget vehicles and get into industrial maintenance, what is not perfect but is 10 times better than any job in any garage.

When I was a teenager, I was friends with an old gunsmith named Earle Miller who told me, "Nobody ever got rich fixing things. You don't want any job where you're fixing something. You want a job where you're making something." He was right, and I'm glad I listened to him

You sound like a whinner 😂😂

this is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen😂😂

The realisation 😂

Theres lots of other things to work on besides automobiles. Fuck flat rate. We are highly skilled workers. Take yout time, do it right, be honest and charge them for your work.

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Congrats on a very successful year. I said from the beginning that your channel will grow quick!! Never doubted!! "Sales are not doing so well" - hey welcome to my world 😂😂😂