When I was in auto repair/maintenance school, one of my teacher's most common catchphrases was, " Don't spend 90% of your time trying to please the 10% of your customers that will never appreciate it. Cut them loose and let them be someone else's problem."
I ran a race prep shop for 13 years, closed up after business crashed after 9/11. Didn't owe anyone a dime, no debt. I've worked for myself since 2008. My thoughts: 1 Adapt. Your business has to adapt to changes in its chosen market. In the 80's and 90's everyone made a great living on open wheel formula cars, S2000 and Spec Racers. In the 2000's and forward its all Miata. Not just Spec Miata but all classes that Miata can run. Adapt or die. 2. To Casey's point about profit, you can go broke working on your own project, why would you go broke working on someone else's project? 3. Don't make excuses, just do it. Seriously. Stop making excuses for not taking the chance on yourself. You know the difference between the person running their own business and you, who is still working for the man? They are brave enough to take the risk, to bet on themselves. What's the worst that can happen? Structure the business correctly and you risk little. Get off your ass and do it. 4. Find a mentor. A business mentor. A mechanic mentor. A life mentor. I've had so many its almost hard to count them, all had positive influence on me and my abilities to succeed. Now, get out from behind the computer and go build something!
Thank you for your advice. Been pulling engines the past couple months to try and start a speed shop. Just purchased a cherry picker and two engine stands today. Not much but it’s a start and just more motivation to keep grinding. My biggest question right now is I’m a one man team and I’m getting swamped with friends and people I meet wanting me to work on their builds and just have too many on my hands to manage alone. I like to finish builds quick and I just don’t want anyone waiting around for weeks if it takes for me to finish a build for them. How do I manage what jobs should be priority in the moment??? Please and thank you
@@CollinCecil-iw7jrI’m no expert but coming at this from an outsider’s perspective and some logical sense I think it would be best to prioritise either the quickest jobs but possibly lesser pay jobs or slower jobs but possibly higher pay. It’s up to your business plan but those 2 options are what you should be choosing between. Hope this helps you make a decision, keep grinding!
@@CollinCecil-iw7jrIf you can’t do the lists of things you wanted to do, change it up a lil bit and do simple like Oil change, tire change, exhaust, tune up, etc or you can have an extra worker and make it a business of 2 workers. You are the owner/worker and the other guy is your worker, when you have a chill day, say 9 cars to do simple things as oil change, tire change, tune up. You can get your worker to do that while you do the other work as in transmission replacement engine replacement. It might be hard working on yourself because of taking out transmission and motors on your own but if you start earlier you will get down earlier do the basics 1 night say deal with the harness and the ecu, than the next morning deal with the unbolting etc and pulling the motor than once you gotta pull it as your worker to help than after you take it out. You can either put it in yourself ( which I rather do) or take time away from what he’s doing and spend depending on if there needs to be any modifications or anything on the car your supposed to be doing. I rather be a solo with everything. If you open up your own shop and have just yourself you will have more money because you don’t have to pay anybody including insurance and etc so all of the money will go to you, taxes and expenses/ back into the business. It’s basically a recycle
Great presentation. Man you really nailed it with “we live in a time where people don’t want you to be successful”. That’s so true. If you work hard, sacrifice, do the right thing, be responsible, get educated, and execute with purpose and become successful as a result, there will be about 1/2 the population who do none of those things but somehow think you are a bad person for being successful AND on top of that, you somehow owe them!! One rule that might fit in your agenda is “sometimes you have to fire a customer”. It’s not very common but once in a while you can have customers that are such a resource drain that it is a better business decision to separate from them.
The first rule is an important one. I do woodworking as a hobby. I have enough customers to keep it going as a hobby but if I went fill time I would run out of customers in less than a year. So I keep it as a hobby and enjoy it.
Don't go into business with family.... just don't. My two uncles were best friends and decided to do just that. We used to be a close family. Now they hate each other and the family is torn in two.
Amen! I wish I could have shown this to my father at the end of WW-II when he got out of the Navy. He had developed his skills for bodywork, trusted most people and he taught everyone in the area who wanted to learn (College-educated, he went broke teaching in a one-room schoolhouse before the war) and gave back to his community even when his community wasn't doing its share. He wore himself out on cold concrete, no lift, painting without a mask and breathing asbestos dust. He was essentially worn out in terms of being a body man or mechanic. He switched to selling wholesale auto parts, soon created his own business, but by the time he became comfortable owning another business, he quit smoking and died soon thereafter. If there had been people like you around to offer good advice A-Z, especially when it came to finances, how to manage customer debt and your own personal debt. I like to believe he was a smart man, at least smart enough to get through college and he knew how to teach; however, he had no one to teach him skills necessary to profit from his abilities to repair bent and broken cars. In my field of teaching children, especially in the vocational trades that I am a strong advocate for, our research showed over and over that our graduates and those people in a trade in the area did not fail in sole proprietorships because they lacked the skills to do the job, they lacked the "job related skills" that were necessary to be successful a well-rounded, successful business person. I'm convinced and have been for years that there are many talented people out there with tremendous, innovative and maybe even groundbreaking skills who resign themselves to mediocre jobs under mundane circumstances because no one has ever helped them understand how talented they were, what their future could be and the absolutely essential "job related skills" necessary to succeed in and grow a sole proprietorship in a field that built a fire under them. I could go on and on more about how jealousy and fear in the business world suppresses young talent, but that's for another day...
This video was very helpful for me. Like you, I want to enter the world of opening my own race shop and doing content creation out of it. Watching this has only made me more sure that this is what I want for myself, I don't want it to just be a hobby.
I've seen videos of people finding the parts suppliers that Snap-On uses for tools they don't make in-house. You can buy the exact same equipment directly from the manufacturer, except without the Snap-On tax.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 No their actual business is selling tools to the U.S. Military for 40% of their absorbent retail price, which is propped up by ripping of franchisees who take a HELOC on their house to buy the truck and initial products that fill it.
I’m a auto mechanic now that specializes in diagnostic with Harley factory training and General Motors factory training planning on getting mopar factory training and Ford factory training to then try and open my own shop in about 6 years. Want to plan on marking it as a domestic specialist shop specializing in diagnostics. It does take a lot of planning and I’m already trying to do pre planning to help and it’s a lot and the info that we need to find isnt always easy to find. Thanks for the video
These are my best pieces of advice for any aspiring mechanic and or person wanting to open a shop or business. What Good advice do you have that I forgot to mention?
It's not a business if you always have to be there. If you do, it's a job (actually, maybe worse because with a job you get vacations). You don't want the revenue stream of your "business" to be dependent on your labor or time. In addition, your time should be the most valuable...so understand the value of your time, and put systems in place to make your business run without you.
As an Auto Body Shop owner, I couldn't agree more. It always amazes me the individuals who "dislike" videos like this one. It makes me wonder if it's not because you told them the truth and that ruined the magical vision they have in their head of what being a business owner is like. It reminds me of the slogan on one of my favorite racing t-shirts "Confidence; the feeling you have BEFORE you understand the situation!" Growing up my Dad would often ask people who didn't like what they were doing what they wanted to do instead . After listening to their answer, He'd say "have you ever done it?" Their reaction was usually no. He'd say," then how do you know." Someone who tells you the truth is far more valuable than one who merely tells you what you want to hear. Along the lines of what you said Casey. it doesn't mean the one telling the truth has to be an A**hole about it. The truth is, being in business can be rewarding and GREAT. But, it is not for everyone. It is a lot of work and even if you do something you like, there are going to be days you wish you were doing something else or don't want to come in to work. If you are a small business owner, you better be self motivated and have a good work ethic, because you are likely to put in FAR more hours as the small business owner than you ever will as an employee. Speaking of employees... If you promise to have something done by a certain time you better do all you can to meet that deadline. If you have employees or an independent contractor who isn't getting their work done YOU are ultimately responsible. If you're not a good manager/owner and or don't have individuals you can trust and count on to get the job done and done right, you will be taking up the slack.....often times quite literally. When you go home, there are no work fairies that come in after you and finish a job while you sleep. If you don't do things in a timely manner and take care of business, your business WILL NOT take care of you! You have to put out good work, and treat people right. For such a big world, when someone doesn't do good work, or is unethical, it can become a small one very fast! Especially with social media and apps like YELP. Again, as Casey said, sometimes you don't even have to do anything wrong for this to happen. And, truthfully, if you have a passion for something and you don't have your business set up correctly or can't set it up correctly for whatever reason, whether that be financial or otherwise, that passion can very easily become antipathy! A hobby is not a business and a business is not a hobby! While you may make a little money for "hobby" work on the side it becomes a whole nother animal when it becomes your PRIMARY source of income. Know what you're getting into! Every business changes over time. When I took over the shop I have, small body shops where you had a couple of techs who could do everything was already on the way out. To be profitable in that arena now often means either going big and courting the insurance companies, specializing in a certain brand...and as you said Casey, making sure there is enough of that brand work to be repeatable, or having a large one stop shop that does mechanical work, restoration work, insurance work, and upholstery work. So, do your homework. Work as an employee in that field. Talk to as many people as you can who are doing what you want to do. Find out what they like and don't like. What are the struggles? Where are things headed? Would they do it again? What would they do different? Just as an example, maybe you think you want to start a Body Shop, but you don't want to manage it, do the book work, manage employees, do inventory, etc.. Well, then that means you would be paying other people for each of those things which of course means you're going to have to have enough business to pay them so that money isn't cutting into YOUR money, or maybe it just means you'd really be happier as an employee. Maybe all you want to do is OWN the business, not work at it, and collect the net profits. Well then, does it really matter what your business does? Sure, you still have to KNOW the business and set it up with the correct people to make it successful. But at that point, it's for the most part just a business, much like flipping burgers is just a job. As my Dad always says," the person with the knowledge has the advantage".
A customer who spends $500 with us will expect the moon, sun, a discount later, Christmas cards and all. Those are bad customers. I have had customers spend $6,000 on a repair bill and sent donuts with his wife to pick it up. He did ask for us to have it facing forwards because his wife is too short to back the vehicle out of a parking space.
Man, that's a awesome way to put things în perspective, i had a garage, but when covid hit, i had to close, still recovering from a tumor, but you just sparked my passion again God bless you!
My wife decided to leave me for another guy in Ohio( we live in Florida) and leave me with our 4 kids. She rationalized her departure as she took no enjoyment from being a parent so therefore she needed to move on. Even though our kids are 20,18, 12, and 7. Then said she wanted to be with a different guy because he spoke to the darkness in her soul. She rationalized that if I loved her then I should support her decision because she will discover peace and happiness. So your rationalize thing is awesome. I'm using it. And yes, this is a true story. Unbelievable garbage she spews now. Broken people.
I want to do automotive work as a hobby. I have a lot of people that I know that would like car work done. I'd say basic maintenance, service, front end rebuilds, brakes, nothing too intense maybe fixing a check engine light or finding a evap leak. The only thing keeping me from doing it is fear that somebody will take my house if their tire falls off when I change the differential fluid or something stupid like a timing belt snapping because they wouldn't let me put new bearing on the idlers and because lawyers. How do I protect myself from that and still do something I enjoy while making some money on the side. So far I only help family that I know will not screw me or mine.
I worked at a mechanic shop in NY when I was younger, they had good insurance but was still scared of stuff like that. But Insurance and adding terms to an invoice are the only way to avoid that
@@yudeshsohan5853 I'm not sure I would make enough to pay for insurance too as a hobbyist. I might do a few thinks a month max. Most want to help pay for the tools I love buying lol. Thank you I will check in too this
Theres a shop in my town for $42k, the owner is leaving all the tools, & both lifts. There’s 2 workshop bays, customer lounge area & 6 car storage garage. I was planning to get a small business loan in 1-2 years, I have a 700 credit score, not sure what i should put down. If that works out in 4-6 months of owning the shop, I’m also looking to finance a truck for the tax deduction
Very good explanation Casey. In my experiences with business ownership your employees can be just as difficult to work with as some troublesome customers are. Our motto at Cash Pawn Auto Center was making friends, not just money, yeah right.
I’m not a mechanic but just looking for advice for a friend who has been a mechanic for over 11 years. I must say, your video has been very inspirational. God bless. As for my buddy, he is certified and all but needs some advice owning his own shop.
You don't need to be looking for advice for your friend. He can do his own thing. The most annoying thing in the world is getting unsolicited advice from friends who dont know what they afe talking about. Worry about you own thing.
@@jerbear7952 Yeah, I don’t see myself like some shitty people out there that troll around and had a shitty mediocre life and seem to want to impose that on to others.
Thank you sir for you words! I am helping my husband with his mobile mechanic business. This really helped me understand his side of thinking and how to better assist him.
I feel for you with the customer issues. I restored a car then covid hit. I couldn't get it painted for a year as the shop i trust and use all the time had to shut down and then became backlogged with work. so, my 3-year estimate was compromised, and they got the car in 3.5 years.... they try to trash my shop any chance they get. but the funny thing is the car has won best in class several times so far and it's been nothing but good advertising. I didn't say anything about the customer and just let them talk. everyone is figuring out that I wasn't really the problem. patience is key and not stressing about issues like that really kept me going.
9:01 There are a bunch of things that make no sense to do that shops will do like a complete engine rebuild I had a customer who was actually a service writer at a shop I worked for years ago he tried to get me to rebuild his 5.3 in his silverado long story short as possible I told him just put a reman in it then u have a 3/36 warranty it would be close to the same price as doing a proper rebuild. He said he has a guy that’s gonna rebuild it at his house and someone else to remove and install the engine. I said well make sure the cam bearings get replaced because that’s definitely ur problem and also get the machine work done I told u about and buy good parts. Engine had low oil pressure at idle, misfiring and lifter noise after the rebuild. He said the guy told him the cam bearings were fine and didn’t need to get replaced and I cut him off there and said you had a half assed rebuild done and didn’t replace the only parts that absolutely needed to be done. Week later he said some guys told me to put an oil pump in and lifters what would u charge? I said I’m not getting involved you had a few different people inside that engine I don’t feel comfortable working on it after all that going on what don’t u bring it to the guy that rebuilt it? He said he can’t help he has medical issues I said now do u understand why I told u to just have me put a reman in with a warranty?
I live in fairbanks alaska. This town is small and I want to completely change the car and truck culture here. I want to focus mainly on trucks because that's what most people drive here. I want to own my own shop called 'Elijah's Truck Repair and Old Gen Restoration.' Not only do so many people buy new trucks here, there are also so many old gen trucks here from the early days of this state becoming an actual state(from the gold rush). I want to eventually add semi truck repairs too because cdl trucking and oil rigs are popular too. Thank you for all this information and also thank you for the people in the comments with additional tips and suggestions!
I recently opened a hybrid/Electric car repair shop. Biggest problem customer is scarce although it’s lucrative since just rebuilding a hybrid battery I can make over a thousand in a few hours. What I really want to know is an effective marketing strategy because just like in any business it needs customer to survive.
Thank you Casey. I recently started a shop in Alberta Canada and this guidance is spot on and helped/helps me a lot. I appreciate you and your wonderful mind 🙏🏽
Very much appreciate watching. Extremely useful to the point straight forward information that I absorbed well and will utilize going forward in many areas of my life. So, with all do respect. Thank you.
I agreed with EVERY single thing you said (I'm am Independent Mercedes-Benz/German Auto Specialist) except for the Radio comment. I think Radio is still alive and well! Also..."swimming in stem cells"?? lol
I love the video but one thing no one talks about is how to actually start up from what and where and as in license to inspections to codes need to follow to up with the county you work in any chance you have a start up guide video
Hey, i’m super new to car culture and actually just had my first “drivers lesson” (just me driving around with my dad behind the wheel) yesterday. i got into the good old mx5 from my friend and it totally turned me onto cars. i’ve always wanted to learn stick regardless of my miata friend so i think i was bound to be a car guy inevitably, but there’s a lot of terminology that you use that i just don’t really get. is there a “just the basics” type video that you have? i’ve watched only about 8 videos of yours but they’re all very enjoyable and i think i can learn a shit ton from you. by the time i have my license (probably in september when i turn 18) i’d wanna have a pretty good bit of knowledge under my belt but i’m really not sure where to start. for example, i get the concept of how to drive stick but i don’t know what the synchros are, and then i get confused. if there isn’t a basics video already uploaded, is there any chance you could make a video for guys like me who are new to this whole thing? tl;dr: i don’t get a lot of terminology that you use or some of the concepts. is there a basic video of yours that i could watch so that i can start to understand all this stuff? (i commented on your most recent video just so that the comment has the highest chance of being seen)
Another good video Casey. My Dad was a mechanic and he did not own the shop someone else did and it work out great .The owner had my Dad shop and another mechanic shop they junk cars crushed cars and store ones for parts and pieces as well. My Mom ran the books for the shop from inspection license to regular repair vehicle for my Dad My Dad di the inspection license. Mom help him with the business end . And taxes oh boy that was another story to wait for the owner to get taxes to my Mom to get them done could be a hassle they got it done though. So I have been around this my whole life and everybody like my Dad he knew his stuff so did my Uncle same business as my Dad a mechanic and they both liked the job they was good with thier hands .
Casey you have helped me so much. I will re assess what I should do word of mouth is all the advertising I have ever done. the 80/20 rule is on the nail
So I’m skilled in general retail management and have a licensed mechanic that is completely into the idea of helping me start a shop (I’m not licensed but work on cars as a hobby) AND my husband is a financial advisor and completely willing to assist. I’ve done schooling on entrepreneurship so we’re heavily considering it. My concerns are starting this business with a lower budget at first and this industry not being very female friendly, so concerned about actually getting business solely because of gender. Not getting a full shop right away but gonna try my best 🤷🏻♀️ fingers crossed
We're in the backside of nowhere & people drive 5 or 6 hours to get their vehicle here on the regular - so location ain't all ya might think it is. Being good matters more.
I’m not ASE certified but a shop owner wants to sell me his garage for 500k & there’s a lender willing to loan it at 10% interest, he says I don’t need to work the shop all I need to do is run the office, and he’ll stay for two years. I have most of my money in stocks I have enough to cover ppw fees and inspection , I’m pulling 50k from my home’s equity that’s all the money I’ll have to start. What advice do you give me?
It is so great to hear you talk, transparently. Also, totally love your energy! I have been thinking of starting my own gig for a while. Being a customer of the auto service repair industry myself, I first hand know the pains of someone going to a dealer/shop for repairs or even preventative maintenance. So, I have been thinking on starting a small auto-repair business and then try to grow it. However, with no knowledge or experience in fixing cars (apart from being technically inclined), would it be suicide to start such a business, especially with today's shortage of labor in general and of skilled labor in particular? Its not a dream per se, but rather a problem that I see all around and try to fix it. Thanks!
I feel like this is gonna sound stupid but is it better to start now in highschool and get some knowledge on this stuff or is it okay to just head into college and then learn all this stuff?
I'm buying my first auto shop, and this was helpful insight. You're also hilarious - you remind me of my drummer who's mind races at a million thoughts per second.
Points well made. The quote is actually "Jack of all trades, Master of none, but better than the master of one." Specialization is definitely a necessity to profitability and to set you apart from others/competition.
Yes if you can only change oil then what are you doing working on people's cars? However if you work on all cars then I don't think I could trust you to do a good job in good time
I have lived next to a auto shop for many years of my past also hung out there , even helped/and learned alot. Nieghbor close by who hangs out alot decides he wants to help a mechanic neighbor who is replacing a timing belt on a small Chevy car. As I show up and start asking questions, neighbor #1(not the owner and definitely without mechanical intel) starts telling me not to touch the car because it will move. Ok , so you think you know enough to treat me like I'm a 2 year old. So , what is the harmonic balancer ? I asked him . He quickly went back in his house . True story Chilling in Mexico Thought you could use a laugh.
First off a question. Have you moved to Mexico or just vacationing? My father owned a body shop and garage. My brother, 16 years my senior, worked there pretty often. Across the road lived my drunk uncle. We'll call him Marcus. Two of Marcus' associates arrived at our shop drunker 'n Cooter Brown. They asked my dad, way up under a car as well as my brother under another car, if they had seen Marcus when they last saw him and my dad politely told the guy all he knew was that he was gone. The drunk asked, "Well, do you have enough sense to tell me which direction he went?" My dad was nearing 50 at the time and my brother, who loved fighting, was about 22. That drunk's comment launched my dad and brother out from under those cars --- one with a hammer the other picked up a big rock -- catching up with the drunk before he could tell his wheelman to go. My folks went to work on that old car, noticed the drunk had locked his door, so they broke through the side glass, unlocked the door and opened it. My dad was beating hell out of the guy through the open door, trying to drag him out and the wheelman gunned it but my dad jogged along with the car still punching away, finally, my brother didn't want the wheelman to leave unscathed, so he launched the rock through the driver's side of the old car. In the course of about 30 seconds they taught the drunk to mind his manners and totaled the car he was in using body hammers and rocks.
@@mike30534 Chilling in Mexico for now. Better than the freezing temps in PA right now. It takes about two seconds to think before they open up their mouth and say something stupid. What a story. Thanks for sharing.
Being a mechanic and then trying to do it on the side is absolutely terrible. I've already put in 40 hours of hard work, busting my ass off to make a living because I have excellent work ethic and I actually try at my job. The last thing I want to do at the end of a long 40-50 hour work week is to work on vehicles.
Stay off the tool trucks. Remember Snap-on sells "blue point", made in Taiwan tools that are guaranteed to meet or exceed the snap-on specifications. . . for tons less $. Taiwanese tools are mainly made by Kabo and Infar on behalf of many tool "brands" in the U.S. so those "blue point" tools are available for even less $ if you hunt for them and verify "Made in Taiwan". Shy away from made in china unless they're proven like say milwaukee impacts, and never buy made in India tools. Taiwan rebrands (check COO of each item still): Napa Professional (NPT), Carlyle, Capri, Sunex, Grey Pneumatic, Blue Point, Pittsburgh Pro, Gearhead, Tekton, Husky, Milwaukee, Great Neck, & there's a ton more.
I have absolutely know problem with profit! As long as you share it with the people who show up everyday and work hard for your business! But it seems the vast majority of employers believe their employees should be satisfied with their salary or hourly wage (and a small raise here and there) although they’re expect to become more efficient! I also don’t buy the idea that only business owners take risk! Everyday working people are laid off without the benefit of having accumulated the wealth required to weather the storm until new opportunities present themselves
11:15 yes you do. And garage sales and estate sales are your friends. You get good tools cheap if you look for them. Estate sales in particular because someone passed away and left his good tools he had used and collected for 30+ years. They lasted this long i bet they will last longer than the fap-off brand from the truck.
Casey, do you believe in using any fuel or transmission additives? I suspect you'd think they're largely snake oil. But what about some from Lucas, Seafoam, LiquiMoly?
@@alexandrecouture2462 Yes, I agree with that and imagine that's what's needed most of the time. But my car shifts hard into reverse from any other gear, otherwise it's good. Also, it's a pushrod engine with lifter ticking and I know LiquiMoly has an additive to lubricate and quiet that. I'm somewhat apprehensive though.
Minor comment, regarding those of us who came of age in the 80's.... It wasn't just about an economic boom, certainly: actually there was a prevailing attitude from previous generations' experience that you could always find a livable job in a factory or some other ordinary circumstance and get by pretty nicely with a family... so even during harder times in the Seventies you were basically born hearing these ideas, ...accordingly, why not take your shot, work your way through school, whatever.... but all of that got pretty suddenly blown away around when I was getting to college, and they started saying 'Just take out loans for college ' (if you can,) and they started calling it a 'service economy' and basically led to more modern circumstances, ...but we Gen Xers really kinda didn't expect the playing field we got, you know? Assuming that makes sense, I seem to be getting quite a little allergy season preview at the moment. :)
I'm 39 years old and recently bought my grandfather's old wrecker business but I really wanna start my own truck accessory business but fml I have no clue how
I taught auto shop....I did love it but, man, it was hard work. Running, essentially, a business, while teaching young people, who often didn't fit in the school system otherwise, , while having "customer" cars, shop cars, student vehicles in and out. Whoa...some days.
Like your attitude Casey I used to be an ALFA ROMEO expert back in the 90's, loved it Now most of them are in the junkyard or should be ! Is a shop worth doing ? I doubt it these days, people are too much of a PITA NOBODY has $$ these days, too squirrely I'd rather buy and sell out of the dealer auctions WHAT THE HELL is that AirForce aircraft hanging from your ceiling ? Looks like an ultralight ?
When I was in auto repair/maintenance school, one of my teacher's most common catchphrases was, " Don't spend 90% of your time trying to please the 10% of your customers that will never appreciate it. Cut them loose and let them be someone else's problem."
Sage advice
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Bad advice.
Totally true saying
Never turn down money
I ran a race prep shop for 13 years, closed up after business crashed after 9/11. Didn't owe anyone a dime, no debt. I've worked for myself since 2008. My thoughts: 1 Adapt. Your business has to adapt to changes in its chosen market. In the 80's and 90's everyone made a great living on open wheel formula cars, S2000 and Spec Racers. In the 2000's and forward its all Miata. Not just Spec Miata but all classes that Miata can run. Adapt or die. 2. To Casey's point about profit, you can go broke working on your own project, why would you go broke working on someone else's project? 3. Don't make excuses, just do it. Seriously. Stop making excuses for not taking the chance on yourself. You know the difference between the person running their own business and you, who is still working for the man? They are brave enough to take the risk, to bet on themselves. What's the worst that can happen? Structure the business correctly and you risk little. Get off your ass and do it. 4. Find a mentor. A business mentor. A mechanic mentor. A life mentor. I've had so many its almost hard to count them, all had positive influence on me and my abilities to succeed. Now, get out from behind the computer and go build something!
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Thank you for your advice. Been pulling engines the past couple months to try and start a speed shop. Just purchased a cherry picker and two engine stands today. Not much but it’s a start and just more motivation to keep grinding. My biggest question right now is I’m a one man team and I’m getting swamped with friends and people I meet wanting me to work on their builds and just have too many on my hands to manage alone. I like to finish builds quick and I just don’t want anyone waiting around for weeks if it takes for me to finish a build for them. How do I manage what jobs should be priority in the moment??? Please and thank you
@@CollinCecil-iw7jrI’m no expert but coming at this from an outsider’s perspective and some logical sense I think it would be best to prioritise either the quickest jobs but possibly lesser pay jobs or slower jobs but possibly higher pay. It’s up to your business plan but those 2 options are what you should be choosing between. Hope this helps you make a decision, keep grinding!
@@CollinCecil-iw7jrIf you can’t do the lists of things you wanted to do, change it up a lil bit and do simple like Oil change, tire change, exhaust, tune up, etc or you can have an extra worker and make it a business of 2 workers. You are the owner/worker and the other guy is your worker, when you have a chill day, say 9 cars to do simple things as oil change, tire change, tune up. You can get your worker to do that while you do the other work as in transmission replacement engine replacement. It might be hard working on yourself because of taking out transmission and motors on your own but if you start earlier you will get down earlier do the basics 1 night say deal with the harness and the ecu, than the next morning deal with the unbolting etc and pulling the motor than once you gotta pull it as your worker to help than after you take it out. You can either put it in yourself ( which I rather do) or take time away from what he’s doing and spend depending on if there needs to be any modifications or anything on the car your supposed to be doing. I rather be a solo with everything. If you open up your own shop and have just yourself you will have more money because you don’t have to pay anybody including insurance and etc so all of the money will go to you, taxes and expenses/ back into the business. It’s basically a recycle
9:49 oops, forgot to bleep that... :)
Great presentation. Man you really nailed it with “we live in a time where people don’t want you to be successful”. That’s so true. If you work hard, sacrifice, do the right thing, be responsible, get educated, and execute with purpose and become successful as a result, there will be about 1/2 the population who do none of those things but somehow think you are a bad person for being successful AND on top of that, you somehow owe them!!
One rule that might fit in your agenda is “sometimes you have to fire a customer”. It’s not very common but once in a while you can have customers that are such a resource drain that it is a better business decision to separate from them.
Dude, you’re weird
The first rule is an important one. I do woodworking as a hobby. I have enough customers to keep it going as a hobby but if I went fill time I would run out of customers in less than a year. So I keep it as a hobby and enjoy it.
Marketing. I pay google ads a little bit of money every month which is adjustable if I get too busy.
You sound like if you made profit
Don't go into business with family.... just don't. My two uncles were best friends and decided to do just that. We used to be a close family. Now they hate each other and the family is torn in two.
Seen to many times
Amen! I wish I could have shown this to my father at the end of WW-II when he got out of the Navy. He had developed his skills for bodywork, trusted most people and he taught everyone in the area who wanted to learn (College-educated, he went broke teaching in a one-room schoolhouse before the war) and gave back to his community even when his community wasn't doing its share. He wore himself out on cold concrete, no lift, painting without a mask and breathing asbestos dust. He was essentially worn out in terms of being a body man or mechanic.
He switched to selling wholesale auto parts, soon created his own business, but by the time he became comfortable owning another business, he quit smoking and died soon thereafter. If there had been people like you around to offer good advice A-Z, especially when it came to finances, how to manage customer debt and your own personal debt.
I like to believe he was a smart man, at least smart enough to get through college and he knew how to teach; however, he had no one to teach him skills necessary to profit from his abilities to repair bent and broken cars. In my field of teaching children, especially in the vocational trades that I am a strong advocate for, our research showed over and over that our graduates and those people in a trade in the area did not fail in sole proprietorships because they lacked the skills to do the job, they lacked the "job related skills" that were necessary to be successful a well-rounded, successful business person. I'm convinced and have been for years that there are many talented people out there with tremendous, innovative and maybe even groundbreaking skills who resign themselves to mediocre jobs under mundane circumstances because no one has ever helped them understand how talented they were, what their future could be and the absolutely essential "job related skills" necessary to succeed in and grow a sole proprietorship in a field that built a fire under them. I could go on and on more about how jealousy and fear in the business world suppresses young talent, but that's for another day...
Sorry Casey, I accidentally sent it before I was finished. Maybe there was at least enough to look at to come back to the last little bit.
Amen.
I'm a construction contractor, so much you said is so true and applicable to any business...
This video was very helpful for me. Like you, I want to enter the world of opening my own race shop and doing content creation out of it. Watching this has only made me more sure that this is what I want for myself, I don't want it to just be a hobby.
the best way to lose the joy of your interest, is to do it for a living.
Usually.
That said, I really enjoy what I do. Yes, it gets frustrating, but I still enjoy it.
Hi how are you doing 😊
Already there, unfortunately im too gd good at what i do. So my own business is the most logical step
100000%
I love owning my own shop. I hated what i did when i was doing it for someone else knowing what i was worth. Marketing is key
I've seen videos of people finding the parts suppliers that Snap-On uses for tools they don't make in-house. You can buy the exact same equipment directly from the manufacturer, except without the Snap-On tax.
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 No their actual business is selling tools to the U.S. Military for 40% of their absorbent retail price, which is propped up by ripping of franchisees who take a HELOC on their house to buy the truck and initial products that fill it.
I’m a auto mechanic now that specializes in diagnostic with Harley factory training and General Motors factory training planning on getting mopar factory training and Ford factory training to then try and open my own shop in about 6 years. Want to plan on marking it as a domestic specialist shop specializing in diagnostics. It does take a lot of planning and I’m already trying to do pre planning to help and it’s a lot and the info that we need to find isnt always easy to find. Thanks for the video
Another Clint Eastwood quote comes to mind: "A man's got to know his limitations".
These are my best pieces of advice for any aspiring mechanic and or person wanting to open a shop or business. What Good advice do you have that I forgot to mention?
This advice could save people a lot of money,time and struggle.
It's not a business if you always have to be there. If you do, it's a job (actually, maybe worse because with a job you get vacations). You don't want the revenue stream of your "business" to be dependent on your labor or time. In addition, your time should be the most valuable...so understand the value of your time, and put systems in place to make your business run without you.
Downtime will make you nuts.
As an Auto Body Shop owner, I couldn't agree more. It always amazes me the individuals who "dislike" videos like this one. It makes me wonder if it's not because you told them the truth and that ruined the magical vision they have in their head of what being a business owner is like. It reminds me of the slogan on one of my favorite racing t-shirts "Confidence; the feeling you have BEFORE you understand the situation!" Growing up my Dad would often ask people who didn't like what they were doing what they wanted to do instead . After listening to their answer, He'd say "have you ever done it?" Their reaction was usually no. He'd say," then how do you know." Someone who tells you the truth is far more valuable than one who merely tells you what you want to hear. Along the lines of what you said Casey. it doesn't mean the one telling the truth has to be an A**hole about it. The truth is, being in business can be rewarding and GREAT. But, it is not for everyone. It is a lot of work and even if you do something you like, there are going to be days you wish you were doing something else or don't want to come in to work. If you are a small business owner, you better be self motivated and have a good work ethic, because you are likely to put in FAR more hours as the small business owner than you ever will as an employee. Speaking of employees... If you promise to have something done by a certain time you better do all you can to meet that deadline. If you have employees or an independent contractor who isn't getting their work done YOU are ultimately responsible. If you're not a good manager/owner and or don't have individuals you can trust and count on to get the job done and done right, you will be taking up the slack.....often times quite literally. When you go home, there are no work fairies that come in after you and finish a job while you sleep. If you don't do things in a timely manner and take care of business, your business WILL NOT take care of you! You have to put out good work, and treat people right. For such a big world, when someone doesn't do good work, or is unethical, it can become a small one very fast! Especially with social media and apps like YELP. Again, as Casey said, sometimes you don't even have to do anything wrong for this to happen. And, truthfully, if you have a passion for something and you don't have your business set up correctly or can't set it up correctly for whatever reason, whether that be financial or otherwise, that passion can very easily become antipathy! A hobby is not a business and a business is not a hobby! While you may make a little money for "hobby" work on the side it becomes a whole nother animal when it becomes your PRIMARY source of income. Know what you're getting into! Every business changes over time. When I took over the shop I have, small body shops where you had a couple of techs who could do everything was already on the way out. To be profitable in that arena now often means either going big and courting the insurance companies, specializing in a certain brand...and as you said Casey, making sure there is enough of that brand work to be repeatable, or having a large one stop shop that does mechanical work, restoration work, insurance work, and upholstery work. So, do your homework. Work as an employee in that field. Talk to as many people as you can who are doing what you want to do. Find out what they like and don't like. What are the struggles? Where are things headed? Would they do it again? What would they do different? Just as an example, maybe you think you want to start a Body Shop, but you don't want to manage it, do the book work, manage employees, do inventory, etc.. Well, then that means you would be paying other people for each of those things which of course means you're going to have to have enough business to pay them so that money isn't cutting into YOUR money, or maybe it just means you'd really be happier as an employee. Maybe all you want to do is OWN the business, not work at it, and collect the net profits. Well then, does it really matter what your business does? Sure, you still have to KNOW the business and set it up with the correct people to make it successful. But at that point, it's for the most part just a business, much like flipping burgers is just a job. As my Dad always says," the person with the knowledge has the advantage".
A customer who spends $500 with us will expect the moon, sun, a discount later, Christmas cards and all. Those are bad customers.
I have had customers spend $6,000 on a repair bill and sent donuts with his wife to pick it up. He did ask for us to have it facing forwards because his wife is too short to back the vehicle out of a parking space.
bro i swear thats how it always goes
😂😂😂
Man, that's a awesome way to put things în perspective, i had a garage, but when covid hit, i had to close, still recovering from a tumor, but you just sparked my passion again
God bless you!
Casey and the car wizard need a collaboration video lol 😂
That would be amazing!!! we need it!!!
I was going to say that.
They are polar opposite energy levels 😆
Car wizard is a biased idiot. Many better mechanics on UA-cam
My wife decided to leave me for another guy in Ohio( we live in Florida) and leave me with our 4 kids. She rationalized her departure as she took no enjoyment from being a parent so therefore she needed to move on. Even though our kids are 20,18, 12, and 7. Then said she wanted to be with a different guy because he spoke to the darkness in her soul. She rationalized that if I loved her then I should support her decision because she will discover peace and happiness. So your rationalize thing is awesome. I'm using it. And yes, this is a true story. Unbelievable garbage she spews now. Broken people.
ye olde shit sandwich and urine popsicle.
What does this have to do with opening a car business????
Oh wow. Then here’s your moment to be a real hero. All the best man 👊🏼
Stay strong buddy
@@ronf4308 looks like he just needed to get that out 😂
YES BUT I LOVE MY SHOP. I STARTED AT AGE 26 AND STILL GOING STRONG. GOOD TALK...
I want to do automotive work as a hobby. I have a lot of people that I know that would like car work done. I'd say basic maintenance, service, front end rebuilds, brakes, nothing too intense maybe fixing a check engine light or finding a evap leak. The only thing keeping me from doing it is fear that somebody will take my house if their tire falls off when I change the differential fluid or something stupid like a timing belt snapping because they wouldn't let me put new bearing on the idlers and because lawyers. How do I protect myself from that and still do something I enjoy while making some money on the side. So far I only help family that I know will not screw me or mine.
I worked at a mechanic shop in NY when I was younger, they had good insurance but was still scared of stuff like that. But Insurance and adding terms to an invoice are the only way to avoid that
@@yudeshsohan5853 I'm not sure I would make enough to pay for insurance too as a hobbyist. I might do a few thinks a month max. Most want to help pay for the tools I love buying lol. Thank you I will check in too this
Theres a shop in my town for $42k, the owner is leaving all the tools, & both lifts. There’s 2 workshop bays, customer lounge area & 6 car storage garage. I was planning to get a small business loan in 1-2 years, I have a 700 credit score, not sure what i should put down. If that works out in 4-6 months of owning the shop, I’m also looking to finance a truck for the tax deduction
Very good explanation Casey. In my experiences with business ownership your employees can be just as difficult to work with as some troublesome customers are.
Our motto at Cash Pawn Auto Center was making friends, not just money, yeah right.
I’m not a mechanic but just looking for advice for a friend who has been a mechanic for over 11 years. I must say, your video has been very inspirational. God bless. As for my buddy, he is certified and all but needs some advice owning his own shop.
You don't need to be looking for advice for your friend. He can do his own thing. The most annoying thing in the world is getting unsolicited advice from friends who dont know what they afe talking about. Worry about you own thing.
@@jerbear7952 Yeah, I don’t see myself like some shitty people out there that troll around and had a shitty mediocre life and seem to want to impose that on to others.
Just seeing this 3 years later but he’s still very valid I appreciate the knowledge because I want this forever and needed to hear this!
Thank you sir for you words! I am helping my husband with his mobile mechanic business. This really helped me understand his side of thinking and how to better assist him.
Nice
You just have to be the boss at work too😂
I feel for you with the customer issues. I restored a car then covid hit. I couldn't get it painted for a year as the shop i trust and use all the time had to shut down and then became backlogged with work. so, my 3-year estimate was compromised, and they got the car in 3.5 years.... they try to trash my shop any chance they get. but the funny thing is the car has won best in class several times so far and it's been nothing but good advertising. I didn't say anything about the customer and just let them talk. everyone is figuring out that I wasn't really the problem. patience is key and not stressing about issues like that really kept me going.
9:01 There are a bunch of things that make no sense to do that shops will do like a complete engine rebuild I had a customer who was actually a service writer at a shop I worked for years ago he tried to get me to rebuild his 5.3 in his silverado long story short as possible I told him just put a reman in it then u have a 3/36 warranty it would be close to the same price as doing a proper rebuild. He said he has a guy that’s gonna rebuild it at his house and someone else to remove and install the engine. I said well make sure the cam bearings get replaced because that’s definitely ur problem and also get the machine work done I told u about and buy good parts. Engine had low oil pressure at idle, misfiring and lifter noise after the rebuild. He said the guy told him the cam bearings were fine and didn’t need to get replaced and I cut him off there and said you had a half assed rebuild done and didn’t replace the only parts that absolutely needed to be done. Week later he said some guys told me to put an oil pump in and lifters what would u charge? I said I’m not getting involved you had a few different people inside that engine I don’t feel comfortable working on it after all that going on what don’t u bring it to the guy that rebuilt it? He said he can’t help he has medical issues I said now do u understand why I told u to just have me put a reman in with a warranty?
Yes! More Jacob! Great video, very informative even if you're not planning a shop but just a business in general.
Old guy walking past in the background "that got damn casey playin on his phone again little bastard dont do NOTHIN around here!!!!!" 😂😂😂
I live in fairbanks alaska. This town is small and I want to completely change the car and truck culture here. I want to focus mainly on trucks because that's what most people drive here. I want to own my own shop called 'Elijah's Truck Repair and Old Gen Restoration.' Not only do so many people buy new trucks here, there are also so many old gen trucks here from the early days of this state becoming an actual state(from the gold rush). I want to eventually add semi truck repairs too because cdl trucking and oil rigs are popular too. Thank you for all this information and also thank you for the people in the comments with additional tips and suggestions!
I love it when my buddy tries to justify a $600 snap on flashlight
Man, but they are sooooo lighty! More better light!
there’s no 600 dollar light
@@briarstern1261 Would you like to bet on that? There sure is! There's $800 lights.
Search Emalent MS32 😂😂😂😢@@briarstern1261
I recently opened a hybrid/Electric car repair shop. Biggest problem customer is scarce although it’s lucrative since just rebuilding a hybrid battery I can make over a thousand in a few hours. What I really want to know is an effective marketing strategy because just like in any business it needs customer to survive.
Do you need a general dealership license to buy, custom make, sell
Thank you Casey. I recently started a shop in Alberta Canada and this guidance is spot on and helped/helps me a lot. I appreciate you and your wonderful mind 🙏🏽
Serious wisdom being dropped. Awesome advice. Love your content!
Very much appreciate watching. Extremely useful to the point straight forward information that I absorbed well and will utilize going forward in many areas of my life. So, with all do respect. Thank you.
love this video, you’ve spoken the frustrations for every guy who wrenches for a living forsure 😂
You should do more with that C4
Good advice for any career, not just mechanics.
I agreed with EVERY single thing you said (I'm am Independent Mercedes-Benz/German Auto Specialist) except for the Radio comment. I think Radio is still alive and well! Also..."swimming in stem cells"?? lol
I love the video but one thing no one talks about is how to actually start up from what and where and as in license to inspections to codes need to follow to up with the county you work in any chance you have a start up guide video
Casey is one of the strongest people I know. How else could he carry such a massive chip on his shoulder?
Intended playful, sounded snarky. Love you!
And here I was thinking it was just too much caffeine, energy drinks, other ‘substances’….
Hey, i’m super new to car culture and actually just had my first “drivers lesson” (just me driving around with my dad behind the wheel) yesterday. i got into the good old mx5 from my friend and it totally turned me onto cars. i’ve always wanted to learn stick regardless of my miata friend so i think i was bound to be a car guy inevitably, but there’s a lot of terminology that you use that i just don’t really get. is there a “just the basics” type video that you have? i’ve watched only about 8 videos of yours but they’re all very enjoyable and i think i can learn a shit ton from you. by the time i have my license (probably in september when i turn 18) i’d wanna have a pretty good bit of knowledge under my belt but i’m really not sure where to start. for example, i get the concept of how to drive stick but i don’t know what the synchros are, and then i get confused. if there isn’t a basics video already uploaded, is there any chance you could make a video for guys like me who are new to this whole thing? tl;dr: i don’t get a lot of terminology that you use or some of the concepts. is there a basic video of yours that i could watch so that i can start to understand all this stuff? (i commented on your most recent video just so that the comment has the highest chance of being seen)
This video is very valuable💯. Definitely learned some things.
Preach Casey, tell it how it is
Another good video Casey. My Dad was a mechanic and he did not own the shop someone else did and it work out great .The owner had my Dad shop and another mechanic shop they junk cars crushed cars and store ones for parts and pieces as well. My Mom ran the books for the shop from inspection license to regular repair vehicle for my Dad
My Dad di the inspection license. Mom help him with the business end . And taxes oh boy that was another story to wait for the owner to get taxes to my Mom to get them done could be a hassle they got it done though. So I have been around this my whole life and everybody like my Dad he knew his stuff so did my Uncle same business as my Dad a mechanic and they both liked the job they was good with thier hands .
Casey you have helped me so much. I will re assess what I should do
word of mouth is all the advertising I have ever done. the 80/20 rule is on the nail
Great insights. Thanks for sharing.
So I’m skilled in general retail management and have a licensed mechanic that is completely into the idea of helping me start a shop (I’m not licensed but work on cars as a hobby) AND my husband is a financial advisor and completely willing to assist. I’ve done schooling on entrepreneurship so we’re heavily considering it. My concerns are starting this business with a lower budget at first and this industry not being very female friendly, so concerned about actually getting business solely because of gender. Not getting a full shop right away but gonna try my best 🤷🏻♀️ fingers crossed
We're in the backside of nowhere & people drive 5 or 6 hours to get their vehicle here on the regular - so location ain't all ya might think it is. Being good matters more.
I’m not ASE certified but a shop owner wants to sell me his garage for 500k & there’s a lender willing to loan it at 10% interest, he says I don’t need to work the shop all I need to do is run the office, and he’ll stay for two years. I have most of my money in stocks I have enough to cover ppw fees and inspection , I’m pulling 50k from my home’s equity that’s all the money I’ll have to start. What advice do you give me?
Employees and equipment stay
Great video!
It is so great to hear you talk, transparently. Also, totally love your energy!
I have been thinking of starting my own gig for a while. Being a customer of the auto service repair industry myself, I first hand know the pains of someone going to a dealer/shop for repairs or even preventative maintenance. So, I have been thinking on starting a small auto-repair business and then try to grow it.
However, with no knowledge or experience in fixing cars (apart from being technically inclined), would it be suicide to start such a business, especially with today's shortage of labor in general and of skilled labor in particular?
Its not a dream per se, but rather a problem that I see all around and try to fix it.
Thanks!
What do you when the workers loose and break the shop tools
You the best brother change my day
Does franchise also work for the business?
Great video, I’ve been in business for 8 years and agree with everything on this list!
15:20 absolutely right
I feel like this is gonna sound stupid but is it better to start now in highschool and get some knowledge on this stuff or is it okay to just head into college and then learn all this stuff?
I'm buying my first auto shop, and this was helpful insight. You're also hilarious - you remind me of my drummer who's mind races at a million thoughts per second.
This guy reminds me of seinfeld when he yells and i love it hahahaha
Points well made. The quote is actually "Jack of all trades, Master of none, but better than the master of one." Specialization is definitely a necessity to profitability and to set you apart from others/competition.
Yes if you can only change oil then what are you doing working on people's cars? However if you work on all cars then I don't think I could trust you to do a good job in good time
great video man, you're awesome!
Can you do the same style video but for starting an automotive youtube channel?
sure!
Is the grandad in the background on a loop?
I have lived next to a auto shop for many years of my past also hung out there , even helped/and learned alot.
Nieghbor close by who hangs out alot decides he wants to help a mechanic neighbor who is replacing a timing belt on a small Chevy car.
As I show up and start asking questions, neighbor #1(not the owner and definitely without mechanical intel)
starts telling me not to touch the car because it will move.
Ok , so you think you know enough to treat me like I'm a 2 year old.
So , what is the harmonic balancer ? I asked him .
He quickly went back in his house .
True story
Chilling in Mexico
Thought you could use a laugh.
First off a question. Have you moved to Mexico or just vacationing? My father owned a body shop and garage. My brother, 16 years my senior, worked there pretty often. Across the road lived my drunk uncle. We'll call him Marcus. Two of Marcus' associates arrived at our shop drunker 'n Cooter Brown. They asked my dad, way up under a car as well as my brother under another car, if they had seen Marcus when they last saw him and my dad politely told the guy all he knew was that he was gone. The drunk asked, "Well, do you have enough sense to tell me which direction he went?" My dad was nearing 50 at the time and my brother, who loved fighting, was about 22. That drunk's comment launched my dad and brother out from under those cars --- one with a hammer the other picked up a big rock -- catching up with the drunk before he could tell his wheelman to go. My folks went to work on that old car, noticed the drunk had locked his door, so they broke through the side glass, unlocked the door and opened it. My dad was beating hell out of the guy through the open door, trying to drag him out and the wheelman gunned it but my dad jogged along with the car still punching away, finally, my brother didn't want the wheelman to leave unscathed, so he launched the rock through the driver's side of the old car. In the course of about 30 seconds they taught the drunk to mind his manners and totaled the car he was in using body hammers and rocks.
@@mike30534
Chilling in Mexico for now.
Better than the freezing temps in PA right now.
It takes about two seconds to think before they open up their mouth and say something stupid.
What a story.
Thanks for sharing.
Man I never even thought of a lot of what you just explained
Huge fan of the dude in the background waltzing back and fore 🤣🚶🏻
Can you use a 2005 Gallardo Chassis transmission engine electricals with a coontosh body?
Being a mechanic and then trying to do it on the side is absolutely terrible. I've already put in 40 hours of hard work, busting my ass off to make a living because I have excellent work ethic and I actually try at my job. The last thing I want to do at the end of a long 40-50 hour work week is to work on vehicles.
Stay off the tool trucks. Remember Snap-on sells "blue point", made in Taiwan tools that are guaranteed to meet or exceed the snap-on specifications. . . for tons less $. Taiwanese tools are mainly made by Kabo and Infar on behalf of many tool "brands" in the U.S. so those "blue point" tools are available for even less $ if you hunt for them and verify "Made in Taiwan". Shy away from made in china unless they're proven like say milwaukee impacts, and never buy made in India tools.
Taiwan rebrands (check COO of each item still): Napa Professional (NPT), Carlyle, Capri, Sunex, Grey Pneumatic, Blue Point, Pittsburgh Pro, Gearhead, Tekton, Husky, Milwaukee, Great Neck, & there's a ton more.
I have absolutely know problem with profit! As long as you share it with the people who show up everyday and work hard for your business! But it seems the vast majority of employers believe their employees should be satisfied with their salary or hourly wage (and a small raise here and there) although they’re expect to become more efficient!
I also don’t buy the idea that only business owners take risk! Everyday working people are laid off without the benefit of having accumulated the wealth required to weather the storm until new opportunities present themselves
Great video, but what's the story of the old man running up and down with the same silver part on this video🤣🤣🤣
Thank you, it's a dream come true
I would prefer a tumor than to go back to the automotive retail sector.
how come?
We have the same mind set.
I back you 100% plus vat
11:15 yes you do. And garage sales and estate sales are your friends. You get good tools cheap if you look for them. Estate sales in particular because someone passed away and left his good tools he had used and collected for 30+ years. They lasted this long i bet they will last longer than the fap-off brand from the truck.
Love your videos Casey
Godspeed brother
That was great spot on.Casey People just don’t realize!
Yeah the 80/20 rule! Pareto principle. It's also used in inventory management.
Want to see the Grand Sport!!!🎉😂
13:17 the poorest people I ever met had just bought a 3 m$ house. Stiffed me 250$ on 1988
Rule 1- dont open a shop and get out of the trade.
Can you explain what do you mean by that ?
Can you explain what do you mean by that ?
Loved the video Casey!
Love you❤, only one not satisfied is no wine there, if is, there'll be more fun😂
Casey, do you believe in using any fuel or transmission additives? I suspect you'd think they're largely snake oil. But what about some from Lucas, Seafoam, LiquiMoly?
@@alexandrecouture2462 Yes, I agree with that and imagine that's what's needed most of the time. But my car shifts hard into reverse from any other gear, otherwise it's good.
Also, it's a pushrod engine with lifter ticking and I know LiquiMoly has an additive to lubricate and quiet that. I'm somewhat apprehensive though.
Jack of all trades
Master of none
But often times better
Than a master of one
Doing a exceptionally good job is important I’m out in the sticks and we definitely compete with the shops in town…
No mention of the air conditioning
Minor comment, regarding those of us who came of age in the 80's.... It wasn't just about an economic boom, certainly: actually there was a prevailing attitude from previous generations' experience that you could always find a livable job in a factory or some other ordinary circumstance and get by pretty nicely with a family... so even during harder times in the Seventies you were basically born hearing these ideas, ...accordingly, why not take your shot, work your way through school, whatever.... but all of that got pretty suddenly blown away around when I was getting to college, and they started saying 'Just take out loans for college ' (if you can,) and they started calling it a 'service economy' and basically led to more modern circumstances, ...but we Gen Xers really kinda didn't expect the playing field we got, you know?
Assuming that makes sense, I seem to be getting quite a little allergy season preview at the moment. :)
Love the Metro comment! I have a couple myself
I'm 39 years old and recently bought my grandfather's old wrecker business but I really wanna start my own truck accessory business but fml I have no clue how
Start with what works first
Very honest , thank you.
Very interesting and informative
I taught auto shop....I did love it but, man, it was hard work. Running, essentially, a business, while teaching young people, who often didn't fit in the school system otherwise, , while having "customer" cars, shop cars, student vehicles in and out. Whoa...some days.
Like your attitude Casey
I used to be an ALFA ROMEO expert back in the 90's, loved it
Now most of them are in the junkyard or should be !
Is a shop worth doing ? I doubt it these days, people are too much of a PITA
NOBODY has $$ these days, too squirrely
I'd rather buy and sell out of the dealer auctions
WHAT THE HELL is that AirForce aircraft hanging from your ceiling ? Looks like an ultralight ?
Thanks for the advice!
@0:20 about the values. I felt that... They screw you....
Thanks Casey.
Mans intro was every mans dream