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How much do mechanics make a hr with at least 5 to 10 yrs experience??
People should just learn to service their cars themselves. It's not hard.
Auto mechanic industry, slave drive system.
The whole shit is rigged. Roll your toolbox to your house with your skills and work on the side. No taxes, damn good money. Screw the government and the shops. You can even get the data installed onto a computer for next to nothing.
Think outside the box. Take the business from them. People just want their cars to run. Word of mouth.
Henry Ford himself got stuck. Built a car that couldn’t fit outside the garage to test it!
17 years as a technician, all in the dealership system. I left for pretty much all the reasons most these videos state. Pay isn't up to par with what's going on with the technology in today's cars. I have about 15k in tools and my tool box. With the new tech out now, and what's to come. I'd need to invest a lot more to be able to keep up. Not to mention the additional training I'd need to be able to diagnose plug in hybrids, and fully electric vehicles. Sad to be honest. I left the field all together, and got into a much better paying field.
I did it from 2000-2004, Worked in a shop while in Grade 12 and then right into trade school, worked in 3 shops total, and everything you said is bang on. Cost of tools was insane (I bought all craftsman and gear wrench) even back then, they wanted you to buy your own scan tool and AC equipment. The customers constantly accusing us of "ripping them off" or "breaking shit to make money" was a daily thing. Meanwhile we were 4-6 weeks deep for appointments, and we had tow trucks dropping cars off daily. Just got tired of being broke, covered in grease and grime, and no matter what I did, no one was EVER HAPPY OR APPRECIATED a damn thing I did. I went into construction 3 weeks after I quit, and got a $5 dollar an hour raise, and all I had to bring was my workbooks, Hard Hat, couple hand tools and a tool pouch. I would never go back.
Not worth it unless you are a service manager.
People have money for beer and cigarettes and weed and lottery tickets but when the car breaks they just don’t have any money they also have money for there pets but not for a simple oil change I’m done.
Note the car salesmen are the pricks
Fixing the car is not as bad as the customer
I left the dealership and industry all together in 2022 after 14 years at the same Ford dealership.
When i was in the shop, all of the techs had to worry about not turning 80 flat rate hours because warranty work paid a fraction of the true repair time, or doing work that doesnt pay anything… Plus you are buying your own tools.
Dealerships have a monopoly on getting hired here in the Northeast
The biggest problems at dealerships is that everyone is a salesman, trying to upsell you as much as possible. The “multi-point inspections” are mostly just looking for high value items that “need” to be fixed. I don’t go to dealerships any more (Toyota) because I could NOT walk out of there without paying $500! I much prefer small shops where the owner is also a mechanic (so much less overhead!). I do as much as I am able (which is not as much as in the “olden days.”
You forgot to mention the $100,000 in tools that we are expected to have, and in Canada I can claim $500/year on my taxes. I have to have them for my job, but can’t write them off
Number one I've never done a recall that paid well. Number two typically rookies can't do recalls cuz they have zero certification.
Sorry guys but it's the management not the job, I work in a motorcycle dealership and the jobs fine but the manager we have runs up stairs and complains about every little mistake that gets made. Sad man
I been a tech for 7+ years and I got a car fixed it under warranty and I literally watched the customer give the service advisor a tip and who ended up taking it and never even offered me a dollar
The more you know the more you blow. The less you know the better you are. I’ve been told this 35 years ago and didn’t understand what that meant. What Nick just described is dead on right. I’m a master certificate audi tech/foreman who 38 years later is looking to leave or Leave the field.we can’t get techs,no body is even knocking on the door. If we do get some one it’s a person with no experience or a car washer,or we are get these hacks that don’t care about anything. But get all the gravy work and I get stuck with all the problem cars where most of the techs make more money then me who is the foreman that cares about fixing the cars. The writers make more money than we do. They drive brand new 55/60 thousand dollar Audis. We meanwhile drive shit boxes. What’s wrong with this picture. And Nick is right the manager doesn’t care. As long as the jobs get done and the dealership makes money. If you don’t like it they tell you to leave then. Then they get another minimum wage technician pay as low as you can and more profits that they make they don’t care about us experienced guys anymore.
I can say most dealerships are crooked, and don’t care about their people as long as their pockets are getting fat, most not all but most dealerships then they try to get technicians and once they find out what the pay is and how a dealership is wrong and how the system is run, they leave what’s sad about it. You can go to Starbucks, coffee and get paid more there or walk at Walmart in the warehouse and make more money than a trade technician, make more than we do Plumber more than we do. Meanwhile, we’re plumbers and electricians and body guys and still get paid below. We should be getting this whole industry took a 80° from what it used to be where you were dedicated cared and made a lot of money now it’s the dealer principal that needs to make the money and who cares about technicians where they can just get whoever they can off the street.
I had finally found a dealership were I was happy to work at until reality hit me that I alway’s wanted to be a mechanic not a technician for example you have to find specific tool’s to work on vehicle’s service advisor are lazy and never give your work on time,so much computer stuff that I just do not enjoy not only that but recently the higher tech’s are no longer getting paid hourly and flat rate anymore just basic flat rate and I would just really like to quit this job mechanic is just not for me sadly
I don't care about appreciation. I care about compensation.
I'm an Ex-ASE Master automotive tech, I got out in 1994 after 10 years and went back to college for an Electronics degree and never looked back. The entire automotive market is a SCAM top to bottom.. If they would have standardize automotive parts like transmissions, engines, differentials, A/C compressors, computers, sensors ect.. cars would cost about 1/2 to 1/3 third of what they do now.. Why have so many different parts from Chevrolet, Ford, Dodge, Toyota, Nissan ect.. that do the same thing?? Now its a race to see who can put more useless electronic crap on a car to drive up the purchase price and maintenance costs.
Personal computer motherboards, hard drives, RAM memory and other components were standardized in the 1990's and computers got a lot cheaper as they got a lot faster. Same could have been done with cars. Also standardized components would save parts houses like Auto Zone on having to pay taxes at the end of the year on all that inventory as they do now. Unsold inventory is considered an asset and one that you have to pay taxes for and that cost is also passed on to the consumer.
What does a car mechanic in California earn? What range?
Um , Prolly Because It's A Freaking Joke
Where were you 43 years ago when I started this career .
Clever mechanics can go to airplane mechanics and earn much more with less stress and work!
Automotive flate rate works if you have work , if you don't have work that new guy has no work , brakes plus if you have no flagged work you get bare minimum 35 hours a week , and your still working 10 hours a day but your not getting your 40+ hours your getting 35 . This is why this system needs to change of your not going to get the mechanic
Working class Americans are lazy, greedy and selfish. This is why we need unlimited immigration.
U so right
Becoming a technician is career SUICIDE. Trust me. I’m not jaded, just being 100% transparent with everyone. I wasted years in this field. Everyone I know in the field feels the same way. Dealerships make way more money selling cars and insurance packages. Servicing cars is just a necessary evil for them. You are a cost center to them. They don’t value you at all. Period. Avoid at all costs!
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