I am a veteran mechanic with 5 more years until I can retire. My only wish is that I live long enough to see cars and machines broken down everywhere with no one to fix them. Sounds heartless, But that's what the world deserves for paying and treating us like crap for years.

Shop charges 180.00 per hour, pays mechanic 22.00.... enuf said

If shops paid well, they wouldn’t be under staffed

My dealership charges $244/hr and as a factory trained master tech for that same brand I only get $30/hr. All the managers and writers get huge CSI bonuses and the techs get Jack. I recommend the auto industry to no one.

The guys that are always screaming "nobody wants to work" are ALWAYS the ones with the cleanest shirts

That was my situation 12 years ago $160/hr for shop my pay was $24.50 and the GM was complaining I make too much. That was my last dealership (Acura). At that time I had 12 years experience but dealerships just grind you up and spit you out. Now I work for a city transportation agency and make more, no customer bs, no constant training, 3 plus weeks off per year. I hope the dealerships crash

No point in working for a shop when the manager has a house but you're living with a roommate, because that's all you can afford.

"Looks like people don't want to work with their hands anymore". No they just don't want to be fucked anymore.

I do hvac. I was going to be an auto mechanic but had a friend told me to stop. So I did. I thank him so much all the time. Now I can replace the engine in my car at home and don’t have to deal with being an auto mechanic. It isn’t that people don’t want to work. They don’t want to work and be treated like garbage AND have to come up with 10k dollars in tools just to get started. Nooooooope. Anyone thinking about doing it. Stay away.

I have been a mechanic for 20+ years . Largest problems I had low, pay stupid bosses, and even dumber customers. Ultimately, I walked away, became a private contract mechanic. Charged what I wanted worked for who I wanted. Implied no warranties. My clients like me because I tell them the truth, even when it hurts . I also recommend everyone stay away from these new vehicles with all these computers in them. They are not getting a better vehicle. Silicon Valley is just running a racket. Where is cheaper to buy a new vehicle that it is to replace a computer in the vehicle you have now . Ultimately the industry itself as locking the consumer out of their vehicles. Actually already you can't even change a battery in a vehicle without having factory software to Mary the battery to the vehicle. The industry attempts to convince people that they're trying to help them to prevent theft . When in the end, the customer is actually getting screwed by the industry. But unfortunately, the average citizen is so stupid. They can't even realize it and you can show them the information that tells them exactly that and they will not listen. Ultimately, I believe the industry is goal as a whole is right in line with you will own nothing and be happy . All vehicles will be rentals from the dealership. The tire wears out you a new car.🤷🏻‍♂️ ultimately keeping you in a cycle of debt you can never escape .

My neighbors son just finished up his 4 year training to become a mechanic and quit after experiencing poor working conditions etc. He's never been happier now that he has a new job in a different field and can fix his family cars for fun.:)

Mechanic shops have doubled their rates, but the technicians/mechanics pay hasn’t.

Notice how shop owners always say people don't want to work,no they are doing what you have always done for yourself.Seeking what is best for them.

The industry will have to be brought to its knees before any change in pay structure will occur. These youngsters are smarter than I was, they can see that the employers will not pay them right now or ever.

I'm actually happy to be one of those mechanics who pushed my box into my garage and now watch the industry implode from the sidelines. Get bent shop owners and dealerships.

I have been a mechanic for 50 years. i worked For Volkswagen And Audi Dealers For 33 Years . I never made a lot of money. I Alway did a lot of side work and worked Evenings and every sat. and sun. or i would not have gotten very far and had nice things. I'm 68 now and my body is worn out from all the hard work Lifting , bending , stretching , twisting. Terrible benefits No retirement I know the good the bad and the ugly of working as A MECHANIC.

There are far too many people calling my generation lazy despite having to work even harder to be able to keep up with the cost of living compared to them. I've met more disgruntled and bitter old timers everywhere than I ever did guys my age and I'm in my mid 30s. The real problem is the bad pay and the lack of appreciation.

I switched out of the auto industry to heavy equipment. The work is harder, but I get paid A LOT more an hour and I'm paid hourly + overtime, no more flat rate. I got told "I'm sorry I've got to give you this job, but if I give it to X mechanic he'll just blow it off" one too many times. I watched guys write up every job for rear brakes when the the brake pads were at 5mm and came new at 8-10mm, making bank while I diagnosed all the electrical issues and squeaks and rattles under warranty. I was shooting myself in the foot telling people "Your brakes are getting low, but you can make it another oil change, let's do them then" because when that car came back next time I'd never get it, but the guy trying to hose everybody was making plenty. I was suffering for trying to be honest and my family was suffering too. I had always had the idea that if I was honest, and I took care of you, you would come back and I would make more in the long run taking care of you than I would taking advantage of you once or twice. In the end all I was doing though, was lending my good name to the dealership who was happy to watch the other guys be shady and make both themselves and the dealership more money. Now, I've learned a new skill that everyone wants and almost nobody has. I have a company truck with all my tools in it, a fuel card, a company phone and a company credit card. My company pays for my meals if I'm out of town and pays for my hotel rooms if I need to stay out overnight. We still have a Christmas party and they let our managers buy us food for meetings and just randomly do cookouts if the managers want to. On top of all that I walked into my managers office two years ago, showed them an add for a local customer that I go to help when they can't figure out what's wrong with their garbage trucks, and said "I need a $7 an hour raise to compete with this" and two weeks later I signed my raise paperwork. The auto manufacturers are screwing their mechanics. The flat rate times have been cut and cut and cut for warranty for far too long. The price of tools has sky rocketed and the job itself has always been rough on the people doing it. To all you younger auto mechanics out there, use the dealer for the only thing they're good for, get trained up, learn everything you can from them, then move onto a better deal. Eventually they will have to adjust to the market, but you can bet your last dollar they'll have to be dragged, kicking and screaming, the whole way. Don't let them use you up and then spit you out a broken, poor mess, you use them. There are much better opportunities out there, my current company is so much better, sure there's plenty of stupid crap that goes on, but man, it's night and day different from the hell that the dealerships were. Any time I get frustrated I just think to myself "Would I consider going back to a dealer?" and the answer is always a resounding "NO!" If you have knowledge, skills, the tools to use them and are willing to work, you are worth way more than you think.

It’s not that ppl won’t work but refuse to work for unlivable wages when these shops are banking. These shops run on pure greed. They need a mechanics union to bust up these shops and dealerships to get fair pay for everyone

I spent 11 years at the top of the industry and turned wrenches at Mercedes Benz and Ferrari, but I refuse to spend another day in the industry. You would think you’d make bank at those places, but it’s the same as anywhere else; the techs that kiss the most ass get fed the most juice, and the rest of us can fight for the scraps. We don’t get raises, we don’t get recognition, we don’t get respect for the backbreaking jobs we perform, we just get told to work faster, oh and by the way, the warranty time also went down, AGAIN!

At 3:39 start paying real wages that will solve your problem. Most shops have the same problem, the owners wife spends more money then the shop can make.

Fortunately for myself and my family, i learned long ago how to fix everything on our cars and house. No incompetent shops. No rip-offs. No waiting. No leaving my car for a month. What for others is a crisis is for me a minor inconvenience to be handled Saturday morning.

Just left a Honda dealer I was at for over 13 years, the techs were definitely the lowest paid employee of the chain in service and they're the ones breaking their backs, exposed to cancerous chemicals and working long hours. It's sad how the advisors sit up front in the A/C and make over 6 figures. I'm about to start at Tesla, bye bye flat rate.

As an auto tech for 15 years now. Every place I’ve ever worked at has ripped me off on a daily basis (flat rate/rape). Despite me being loyal and working 50+ hours a week and investing close to 100k in tools and education. I almost quit the industry to become a truck driver but I found a shop that pays a really good salary plus bonuses which is owned by someone that used to be a technician. If it doesn’t work out here I’m officially done and will be watching from the side lines hoping the whole industry crashes and burns and the super greedy people that run the industry get everything they deserve! Which is bankruptcy and to join the food stamp line with all the technicians that that have ripped off for years and maybe a good ass whoppin too!!!!

I left the automotive industry as a new tech in the 1999s. My company health insurance cost me over a weeks wages, tools were expensive and senior shop techs complained if i got an easy work order. So I would get most of the trouble shooting jobs, while the senior techs got the " tune ups" and brake jobs.This was at a Chrysler dealership. I am currently an above average automotive DIY mech. Cheers.

The only way I would work as a mechanic would be for 50% of the shop rate.

I am from the UK I pulled away from the commercial side of the trade as I found working in someone else's shop only made them wealthier while you are under appreciated in most cases by the business owner and the customers who in many cases are also rude besides I can do 2 jobs a week for people I like and I feel DESERVE! My help and earn the same money I was earning for a weeks work employed in someone elses business it's a no brainer it's a highly skilled physical dirty job but the wages don't reflect that where as someone sitting in a clean office tapping a keyboard gets paid so handsomely and can afford to pay a more skilled human to do their dirty work while the mechanic has trouble making his Bill's there is something wrong with that there's plenty of money in the industry but it doesn't make it to the people who are actually earning it it stops at the clean hands . You come to the mind set of fix your own F,ing car I can stay clean and clear from exhaust fumes and earn the same money with zero pressure working at the local super market for les hours without needing a bath every day and no damage to my hands knees or back ✌

I take pride in my work and had often worked during lunch hours and overtime. Collect and drop off customer vehicles. Worked overtime and weekends. I Worked for 6 companies that promised pension, medical scheme and incentives. All of it broken promises. Overtime not paid. Leave days stolen. Incentives from headoffice paid to dealership stolen by the dealership owners. So I am glad to see this. So Fuck them let those workshop owners who treat their mechanics like shit, go do the work themselves or go under.

This is just what I've experienced, the tech school I went to part of the course was to work in a shop for a week from a list of shops that signed up to be part of the school. They only had me do oil changes and on the second day the shop manager and the guy I was shadowing were trash talking the school and myself about you can trust kids or the tech school, because you have to teach them everything. I contacted the school and I was able to leave that day and get a completion grade because of that. I tried other shops and even a national road side service company, right in the interview no talent no skills without being able to show what I can do. Even when hired I have to work for managers that have no understanding of equipment or vehicles but can "talk the talk", low pay, bad bosses who from the time you interview belittle you, hold you back and take the credit of getting things done until you leave the job and higher management takes the word of the lower managers. Even bringing my vehicles to shops for work that I can't do because I don't have a lift to to complete the repair they waste my time of having no vehicle and don't do the repair because they can't diagnosis it, until I walk on to the shop floor and physically point out the problem and they still charge me a diagnostic fee after, which I do get my money back after going up the ladder. To which the higher management always says , "yeah, we can't find anyone that can help diagnosis." I just shake my head and walk away because this is what's going on and not getting corrected. As for the national roadside company, it's sad and scary what they do to workers and members. But long for a comment, tried to be as brief as possible.

Mavis tire near me pays $2 above minimal wage. I couldn't believe it, they charge $150/hour in labor and only pay $17/hour

When you figure you are only able to pay for tools or pay for fuel back and forth to work and you haven't even factored in groceries and the mortgage....its time to walk

Flat rate pay needs to go. Standard rate for a lube tech needs to be 18, technician pay 23-30 depending on experience and over 30-40+ for master techs also depending on experience. Either that or increase pay significantly or guarantee 35 hours minimum. Otherwise the shortage will continue.

Ive been a mechanic for 10 years and am as broke as the day i started. We should be making as much money as doctors for what we do! I decided recently to start a different profession, its just not worth it

I put an application at a dealership and they told me that they wanted kids fresh out of tradeschool basically told me to kick rocks. Eat bastards.

Crap pay crap working conditions have finally caught up with the industry

Being a good technician is like going to college for life (new cars every year you have to learn), plus you have to invest a large portion of your paycheck into tools and equipment (for at least one decade or more). But the paycheck does not reflect the lifetime investment the technician must give

i was about to quit the Automotive world, when I got lucky, I got a job as a police Mechanic, which is hourly, with paid holidays, paid Vacation, sick pay, a pension, lots of OT, and work in doors, if spend 4 days chasing down a problem, I get paid for 4 days, and I only work 4 days a week. Until shops match go the same way, this will get worse,

People have realized, they dont want to work and not own a home or have money to retire. Other trades make $40hr. I don't know why techs aren't payed accordingly .

I just want one day a year when all the mechanics get together with automotive engineers, In a boxing ring.

What worries me as a heavy duty mechanic is that in ten to twenty years time, a mechanic will need to be a technician. Vehicles and semi trucks are getting more and more complex, especially with the electric vehicle market. Not to mention the shortage of mechanics, shortage of parts and the lack of interest in this field of work. I enjoy my job but its hard, nasty dirty work. Sadly it's a sign of the times.

I'm not a certified mechanic, but I'm a drag racer and car enthusiast who turns his own wrench. One thing I will never do I turn my hobby into a job LMAO. I already make just as much or more than a mechanic makes as an air craft manufacturing inspector. This idea that no one wants to work with their hands is BS. No, people just don't wanna work for pennies.

“People are lazy, they don’t want to work anymore, also starting pay is $15 an hour”

I left 21 years ago. The pay for the techs hasn't changed yet the shops are charging double. See the problem? By the way, don't be a trucker, either. The pay was worse and the hours were longer.

This is incredible. I joined on at the local Toyota dealership last year, halfway through an ASE cert, and they had me training the new lube techs and government job corp kids for $15/hr. Saturdays, I'd get swamped with lubes and tires while everyone else kinda just stood around. All to come home covered in oil with a measley $900 every 2 weeks, no benefits, no time off, nothing. I only stayed 4 months, because my 2nd job offered me more to go full time with them.

8am to noon life as a modern day dealer tech...."first car of the day 3 software recalls that pay 30min total. Wait 30min for scan tool to be available. Then start updates. 3rd update fails. Wait 20min for another scantool to try update. Still doesnt go through. Wait for foreman to ok ordering a new module. Push car out to parking lot. Get 2nd car of the day. Customer states ever since last minor maintenance service bluetooth cuts out randomly. Find service bulletin for issue and wait 20min for scantool for software update. Car is repaired. Pull in 3rd car for major service and find there are aftermarket wheel locks installed and no key in the car. Wait 20min for customer to respond back they dont have it. Only good job of the morning gets taken away so customer can get a replacement from the tire store down the street. Next car is a waiter failed smog diagnostic on a 2001 truck with 400k on it for 1 hour" so mechanic with 100k in tools and 25 years experience may make 2.8 hours for 4 hours worth of bullsh$t headaches and thats assuming the failed smog is an easy one lmao. Only way to go is do your own thing as a tech or be the favored one in the shop you work in...

The higher the prices go in a shop it makes more people come to a person house and do the same job for cheap. No overhead no nothing

I left the business back in 2012 and went back to school. The work is awful and the pay is worse.

Of all the blue collar trades, auto mechanics seem to get the short end of the stick. Unappreciative customers/employers, low pay, crap working conditions, and physically punishing work.

Asking for the civilian to be empathetic to a mechanic's low pay is a hard sell, because all they see is that $150/hr they just paid for service. They don't see/understand that most of that $150 goes to the shop itself.

You get stuck doing oil changes while the old dog eat good. For us young guys, it kills the motivation so we leave the field.

At 2:46, they want to work, just not for you.

The problem is, owners caring for nothing but their bottom line. Toxic shop politics, technician favoritism, outdated flat rate pay system, and also vehicles getting too technically advanced at a ridiculous rate and techs not being compensated or supported to keep up. Hell, most can barely afford to constantly by the necessary tools to keep up! This has been a problem since the 1990's with shop owners having the attitudes of "techs are replaceable, they grow on trees." Now this decades attitudes and conditions are now biting the industry in the A$$.

As a heavy duty tech, looking at the automotive world is just wild. The wages are trash, 95% of the employers are dogshit and the flatrate system is a joke as tickets rarely get assigned equally. I can't imagine why any one would prefer the automotive world.

Become a mechanic! All you need is 10k worth of your own tools, knowledge on an unknowable number of makes, models, and years, and to constantly update the knowledge. The patience to calmly work around bullshit designs, the willingness to get constantly dirty while servicing overpriced and neglected pieces of JUNK all while receiving one of the lowest paid wages in any skilled trade. AND IF THAT DOESNT APPEALING….try doing all of this with secretaries and salesmen fucking harassing you and customers blaming you because the check engine light came on after you did a tire rotation.

I thank God for allowing me to leave the mechanic junk industry years ago it was tormenting there’s no money involved in that plus people don’t value their cars. They want it cheaper and cheaper.

27 years wrenching. Tools can easily total a years pay. Used to get paid 40%-50% commission. Today its about 10%-20% commission. But shop rates have gone up over 100%. While the service writer and service manager make more than the Techs! If anyone knows simple math...NONE of that adds up for the Tech. The only time I make good money working on cars, is working on my own.

I got hired by a chevy dealer in 2021 when I was 18 and I had built engines, had a decent understanding of electrical and obd2 sensor diagnosis since i was 15 and they wanted to put me on as a lube tech for 8 bucks an hour with the way pay was set up. I understand we have to start somewhere but they wouldnt let me work around the experienced technicians for one day Now I own a pool service business and I don't have to work on ugly, over complicated, and poorly made crap from the last 15 years and I can play with my obs fords and chevys all day. God bless the mechanics who were eager to learn the electrical and obd2 knowledge I dreamed about but gave up on.

It’s not that fact that nobody wants to work. Its the fact the small shops can’t pay a good technician what they’re worth. 🤨

I was a school & us army trained career auto tech. Left that in 2011,and now make over triple the $$$ as a factory General mechanic. Shops don't pay 💩

Its crazy between being payed like shi....and how cars are being built nowadays it's a pain in the ass job😢

It is pay, plumbers charge the same amount as most shops, until that changes there will be shortages in the future, if you think it's bad now, wait 2-3 years!

I never thought this. I thought mechanics were quitting because of all the aggravation of working on these stupidly engineered cars. Stupidity that I have seen like removing the front end of a car just to refill the windshield washer fluid or the oil filter placed where it cannot be reached without taking half the engine apart, bolts underneath the car that cannot be removed because the frame gets in the way, the Ford Transit's battery underneath the car seat which needs to be removed to get to it and so on. With all this BS and more, I don't understand why anyone would want to be a mechanic anymore no matter what it pays.

Shops need to pay better. Shop labor rates keep increasing but Techs pay stay the same.

We lost a skilled tech to sheetrock and another to food service.

If my dealership paid me really damn good wages and treat me like family, i would never leave the industry.

“They go home and collect unemployment” the second you hear them bring up unemployment you know the type of guy your dealing with. A guy can survive just as good of unemployment as he was toiling away at your shop for 40 plus hours weekly , that alone is saying smtn about the shop not so much the individual who quit.

I find it amazing that we leave parts out of the equation! We all know that parts markup can be very profitable. We all buy low and sell high.

Wanted to toss in here just to illustrate what's happened over the years. In 1981 I was a VW Master Tech with a medium size dealer, The labor rate was about $35.00 an hour. I made $15 an hour, which included $.50 an hour for every ASE test I'd passed. The dealer had sent me to all of the relevant VW courses. It works out to about 43% of the door rate. Put that in perspective with the high door rate dealers are charging these days.

I've not heard about any auto mechanics making over $100,000 a year. And until you hear an auto mechanic making over $200,000/yr better get use to the idea of DoingItYourself.

I can work on cars. I fix mine all the time, but i will never work as a mechanic, unless its $35 an hour minimum no book hours.

spent my life learning cars and how things work. never worked flat rate or for a large company. I am 44 years old and work for myself from my house now and stay busy

I changed over to a new career as a biomedical technician. One of the best decisions I have made in my entire life. All the skills rolled over and the work is better in every single way.

Journeyman certified heavy equipment mechanic here for both semi tractor trailers and off road (yellow) equipment. Most people don't understand we as mechanics have to pay for our own tools. As a HEM heavy equipment mechanic, my tools are even more expensive than automotive. As others say on here shop may charge $130 to $220/hour. Very little of that money reaches the mechanics. We're usually not shown our value to the company. Funny cause they charge shop supplies to the customer but rarely fix or replace aging equipment in the shop. New laptop or office chair for staff, yup right away!

I'm a freelance mechanic after working for 2 shops that ripped me off. One never paid a decent rate, the other never paid employee taxes.

I turned wrenches for 5 years and stoped because of Low Wages. If the shops paid 40% of what they were paid for labor they hold have a line Out the Door.

I don’t recommend this trade to any young person. Always having to by tools. Loose a socket or wears out. Going through work shoes do to oil and chemicals. Hot weather in the summer and having to work in the cold.

That is why I am a proponent of right to work on your vehicle. This works for the DIY and for the mobile mechanic. One service lacking is brake fluid bleed and replace. Lots of work that can be done outside a shop safely and professionally. Thanks for the video.

Worker shortages are always due to low pay. The one thing to point out for shop owners is the incredibly expensive software subscriptions for repair, software updates, to work on these newer cars ~2014+. $5 here. $8k there for this manufacturer. $3k for this manufacturer. This is on top of the diagnostic and repair hardware. You can just buy a diagnostic tool, you also have to maintain the monthly / yearly subscription. Makes a barrier to entry going into business yourself - you can get a one size fits all scan tool but you'll lack some features available only to manufacturer specific hardware/software. Need to work on commercial trucks? Get a Bosch HDS 1000 Tablet only $10k! And that's just one tool.

This goes far beyond auto repair. There has been a systematic inflation of costs, needless financialization, and growth of govt. As everything grinds to a halt some will break away but I suspect many Americans will find they've been breed down to indigent serfs on the lands they once owned. If I ran a shop I'd pay and bill a multiple of shop rate or possibly develop a scale where older vehicles, or electric gremlins were billed more to account for the aggravation of corroded fasteners, ect.

He said you cant even hire anyone to stand and do nothing lol

Been a auto tech for 30 years, I quit and will spend my last 10 years working for the Federal Government working on Police cars and Fire equipment as well as airport ground equipment at a major airport, great salary with great benefits as well as a full pension and annual raises, I never got a raise in independent shops without threating to quit.

For those of you complaining about pay, several friends of mine are commercial pilots , their learning expenses are equivalent to doctors, and until they get into a good airline, auto mechanics make more than them, and they get side lined at the slightest health issues.

Is not that people don’t want to work with their hands any more. The problem is most shops don’t want to pay well and because of that there’s a shortage so not only we aren’t paid well but the employer want to give you overtime everyday since the shop is understaffed.

I spent 60 hours a week in a dealership shop. For one pay period i got a $400 paycheck. That is just over $3 per hour. I quit the same day. I haven't worked in a shop since. As long as shops are allowed to pay less than a livable wage they will keep losing techs.

I was a auto tech from 1983 to 2006 and Got tired of constantly buying tools that never ends as well as the low pay for being a Master ASE Tech and went into another Trade and never looked Back.

As someone mentioned, shops charge the customers $180 per hour more or less for labor. Thats off of YOUR backs. Go get your rightful portion. That said i think we are rapidly approaching a breaking point. I am a skilled DIY'er and have done everything from basics like oil and brakes to waterpumps, radiators, power window motors, fuel injectors, and CPU installs. However my free time is valuable and i'd prefer to farm the work out to qualified professionals. That said when i reach out for estimates, i often get numbers that are ridiculous and so will make time to do the work. I save considerable money and i know the job is done right with an attention to detail that probably would not be there were it done by someone else.

Eliminate flat rate and start paying mechanics what they are worth. Otherwise, suck it up and enjoy the shortage of good mechanics.

5 Years at BMW dealership. I make more money as a teacher now. Let that sink in....

I make about 100k a year and I cannot believe how much it costs to get a mech to fix stuff. I hate fixing my own shit but I HAVE to when the parts cost a ton and the labour doubles or triples the price.

I’m glad I got into Heavy Equipment Mechanic from the get go. Couldn’t imagine working in an automotive shop today.

3:15 3,4 days to change an engine......for a van!! I know vans are more difficult to get at things...but , I seen engines pulled in a few hours. No wonder you cannot handle your volume. I seen engine /Trans took weeks, because the new swap in were not OEM and had to play tricks. Like a Chevy small block into a Landcruiser or dump the turbo 350 and have a Turbo 400 instead. This is nothing new, in the early 80s , when cars went sensors and computer controls, a whole generation of points and condensor mechanics were forced to retire, it was no fun looking for someone who have the tools and training to fix your new cars. If there are real shortages, pay should rise , I hear cries for truck driver shortages for 3+ decades, pay actually getting worse. Maybe employers cry shortage when there are less than 5 people lining up for that one job? Most of the cries of shortages come from employers with low pay and poor working conditions.

I hope all repair shops of all types close the doors. Leaving no support for the mfgs over engineered p.o.s. When you have to remove a front facia to change a blinker light...that's a sign. My 77 Nova...2 screws. R&R 5... minutes.

It is also the over complexity of these HIGH unnecessary tech vehicles with brittle breakable parts. Like someone in the comments said, they deserve it. They deserve it for being non humble snobs wanting all the blows in whistles when they just need basic reliable transportation

When Techs get 50% of the door rate it will be a base rate

Last time I bought a new vehicle and had to take it in for other than routine maintenance, it took 6 visits (to the stealership) before the problem was correctly fixed. It was a badly routed wiring harness that was worn through and shorted the 5V communication wire in the body control module. Mind you, this was back in 2012. I now use a local independent shop and they are great people to work with.

no body is struggling to find auto techs their struggling finding "A" mechanics willing to work for slave wages every shop in my area charges over 100 an hour plus parts mark up but not willing to pay up that"s why i went out on my own and i encourage every mechanic i know to demand more money or work for someone that will pay

i got mad when i had to separate the engine from its shaft on a weed wacker in order to replace the primer bulb. manufacturing design teams and their service hostility - its everywhere. getting in the crossfire in a war between manufaturer and consumer.

A bigger problem I'm seeing is that manufacturers are expecting mechanics to have engineering degrees just to do routine maintenance on newer models of cars- with increased electrical complexity and part complexity, engine design has become ridiculously tedious to work on. American and European manufacturers are designing cars with maybe not the intention, but to the effect of, angering mechanics nationwide

3:25 yea i would rather quit n collect unemployment, rather than work for ur fat ass making $15 an hour WORKING ON CARS!!!! Idk y this industry pays like its a fast food company. Lube techs should be starting at least at $20 an hour. I applied to be an A tech and in the interview when he told me itll pay $20 an hour, i just got up n left.

sounds like good news for me. I am always busy and I dont use an app, I just work for my self and its word of mouth advertising, I havent advertised in 7 years.