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Lmao, I was waiting for this one.

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MGTOW all the way! Craig landed a good one.....she puts up with most of his lunacy and just laughs at him hahah.....I mean, she's put up with that gigantic trailer in the driveway for almost a year now lol.......

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HAHAHAHAHAHA GREAT ANSWER HI FROM MATURIN VENEZUELA

That is my major problem the last year or so. For me though it is because I wore out my body working construction so moving around and "working" is painful (bad knees, bad hip, bad back). I rec'd a really lucrative order this past week and while working on it, I threw out my back again. Now just taking a breath is painful. If you're young, you gotta get your ass in gear and motivated to keep trying, otherwise, you're doomed..

digiver...amen...me too!!! walt

I just opened my dealership thanks to flying wheels. I was scared but did it. State inspection on monday and then we just smile and wave boys.

@@ShazadMohamed09 goodluck to you bro! Hope it goes well

If you sell 1 car every day and make 2000 on every car you make 360.000 a year. Something is fishy here. 2000×190= 360.000. Take his advice with a bolt of salt. He couldn't have saved 1000.000. Someone making that much wouldn't be wasting his time with a KZfaq channel like his either. His yt channel will probably take up a lot of his time and barely make 20k a year.

@@africanfitnessconcept The average dealership is open 6 days a week. You multiply 6 days x 52 wks a yr you have 312 days open every yr. You multiply 312 days x $2000 a day you have $624,000. I have no idea how you get $360,000.

@@africanfitnessconcept The 1Mio were before any costs - he mentioned it at the end.

LOVE IT haha

I work in IT and that's basically my job.

@@jrr851 "where is the any key"??????? It says press any key to continue lol

@@jrr851 oh yeah you’re 100% correct. I have an IT shop here in Hawaii and that’s a solid 75% of our work haha

East coast rust problems are a nightmare, as I see on South Main Auto Channel LLC. My Escalade EXT is on its third motor mount, time to install a torque strap. 500 for the first replacement, I replaced it the last time, 3 1/2 hours. Most of the time was the steering shaft, I anti seized the shaft and bolt so the next time should take 2 hours max. 403 ponies too much for the crappy designed hydraulic mount.

Facts

Same bruh

Same

but is should be MONEY in your pocket .

@@rodwilliams2782 I agree but it also causes headaches that cost you money as well. The worst is when a customer comes back and blames you for something unrelated and you know it. Then what do you do?

​@@rodwilliams2782income that takes the time and place of MORE income is indeed still income, but it's less income. That's a losing equation for a business

As a Tech, I wholeheartedly thank you for your insight and appreciation

I second this iam a tech and a good one and it sucks ass I just bank my money till I can get out

100% agree. same with me. i have a high value service and a low value service. the low value biz keeps us a float when times are bad. best solution is to focus on the high value when times are good but be able to shift the biz model whenever its needed.

Sounds like Larry Merriam to me.

Good to know. Thanks!

That’s a great point

Didn't get the full layout of your operation in this, but it looks like you are pretty small. Don't know if you really have the space to do that to it's full potential but definitely something to consider down the road when you can expand a bit. You kinda need designated space for Dealership vehicles to keep that flow going, as well as the designated space for Service.

So do you still work on them or was that the thing you let go?

at that point you're managing talent...thinking like that solves a lot of problems.

Yes, Matthew 6:33 King James Version 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Amen!!!

Can be true, but the problem is no one wants to pay for quality. They say they do, but when they see the quote from one guy and it's a lot cheaper, they don't know enough to know the differences between the service. Like buying something by specs. Two items may have the identical specifications, but that tells you nothing about the build quality, durability or actual design. Most people will shrug and take the cheaper one.

Good until you brought god into it.

J.H. great! suggestion! w.

The VIN is probably the best practice to capture to make sure you know what trim of the vehicle you're going to be working on.

You have no clue how much he makes. He could pull 6 figures every year. Not everyone buys stupid stuff with their money.

@@GOTboost-tl3qi you're either lying to yourself, or a business owner who doesn't pay his staff well if you think german is making 6 figures working for flying wheels.

@@JonDoe-007 Reading comprehension isnt your strong suit. Got it. Point was you have no clue what he is making. Believe it or not yes you can make 6 figures easily in this business. Small lots selling $2k to $20k vehicles move them quick. Most average people who have an credit whatsoever can get financed for them and they are still decent used cars. Do I think HE is making that? no. but he is making better money than you think. He has quite a skill set.

@@GOTboost-tl3qi what does that have to do with giving the man a bonus??

@@Phillytech15 he may already get a bonus on a regular basis.... jesus christ. Use some critical thinking. Why does every single thing have to be shown on youtube for it to happen? Owners take care of their employees on their own in this world. You only hear about the bad ones.

I don't think it will stay like that for long. Everything is getting REALLY skillful in auto repair. The great techs will demand $. I am in healthcare, I get paid really good money. I have to think MUCH harder repairing cars (I have 20+ years of auto skill) over my day job.

@Newt good for you newt! (genuinely)

No. Techs are just generally miserable human beings. Dealt with them my entire life. Havent met one that was overworked, overeducated, and underpaid according to their stanards. Yet, they routinely skip work on the day the SnapOn guy comes and rarely if ever complete a single job on a customers car without doubling the bill because they were too lazy to inspect everything beforehand and just guessed. Love dealing with pissed off customers will my "tech" is at lunch for an hour and a half because making a list and agameplan is above their pay grade im sure.

@@GOTboost-tl3qi Your techs are trying to feed their family, you’re trying to build an empire. They don’t have as much interest in building your empire as you do, doesn’t make them bad people. If you’re going to pay low you should at least have a positive and enjoyable working environment for them so that they want to stay. What sets your shop apart from the rest? If if it’s not the pay then what is it?

@@kandlrex THAT'S the thing most businesses miss: it's called treating your employees with respect. Create a great working environment where even if you have to do a shitty job, they'll do it knowing that they are appreciated and you're trying to make their job easier, not harder. I used to do contracting and home renos, I'd hire on helpers from time to time on bigger projects and I always treated them with respect. For eg: if we finished at 4:45? I'd pay them to 5. If they didn't have a small cheap tool to complete the task, and I had a spare, I'd give them my spare. (not loan, give). If I was going into town and would be back around lunch, I'd bring pizza. If it was snowing and freezing cold, I'd call the day early if we were soaked AND I'd be out there in the blizzard with them, I wouldn't be sitting in the warm truck doing paperwork. I worked for a construction company and favourtism was a HUGE issue. There were the "cool kids" the site boss would treat differently and give all the easy jobs to, and then us low lifes who would get all the shit jobs. One time on the friday before a long weekend he was leaving early at last break and walked right past us low lifes and said to the cool kids "have a great weekend, I have to go to the office and do paperwork, call me on the cell phone if you need me" with his back turned to us.....it was brutal.

I'm in the exact same situation, there are many good people out there but there are also a lot of people out there that blame you for everything that happens to their car. Had a customer 2 weeks ago, who comes in with a 2012 Honda Odyssey says he wants an oil change and to check the car up cause he was going on a vacation to San Diego (from Phoenix). Just so you know he just bought a new Audi Q7 but decided to park the new car in the garage and drive the old one to California. We did the oil change, and everything else looks ok for an 11-year-old car. 4 days later he called me from California saying that the engine is vibrating hard and making lots of noise. He says I had you check it out and you said it's ok, but now it's broken. I told him that with old cars like this you never know if it is going to run for another 10 years or will break down tomorrow, I can't guarantee anything. Funny how much pleasure we get from trying to help people.

I felt that. I can work on cars. I choose to only work on my own and buy and fix up a few when time allows. Props to mechanics out there.

Lol right! My friend jokes that I’m the only one who’d want $1,500 to do a detail. But he’s right lol.

@@BrokePremiere Ha, nice. I worked on a friends snowblower 2 weeks ago. Picked it up, fixed it and dropped it back off. I told him pay for the parts and buy me some beer. 2 weeks later, no beer yet! WTF

I was an ASE certified master tech many years ago. I still do some work on my own cars, but mostly pay today's professionals to do the work. I have people constantly asking me to work on their cars. I always say no. I don't need the money and definitely don't need the headaches that come with them wanting "warranty" work on completely unrelated problems that pop up months or even years later.

Great post!!!!

I was a honnest mechanic, and you know what? My customers figured that out, and kept trying to get a better prize, so in the end i had to stop being so nice, i did my work, their car ran, and then that was that I in the end just stopped because i was working 12 hours a day and barely made enough to keep my tools lubricated

@@CoffeyKingVlogs Oh...

Yea im getting into selling cars i started going to school for auto repair and realized i didn’t want to work on other peoples cars.

@@lilrob19944 well, that applies to anything really. Doesn't matter if you're auto repair, accountant, construction worker, carpenter, contractor......I found out too late in life that there are two ways to earn a living: working a job, or doing what you love/enjoy. I was raised with the mindset "you get a job, any job, to earn a living"

Thank you for your service people don't know how much y'all go through I was in the ER last year

I appreciate that!

Thank you for making the video; about paying for your service.

This business advice is really invaluable,thanks

Same I start at 8 I always try to be 10 mins to get everything settled in

Hope you get paid well. Detailing burned me out. I'm also ocd so I did more than most people even noticed. I wasn't getting paid shit either

I know people that have done this in other business and it doesn’t always work because what was going really well stop doing really well but it wasn’t that easy at all to get back into the other part because he lost them customers to others. And he got u tube helping him.

good luck man! w.

Yeah but he got his u tube channel brining money in to help make up for it. Most don’t.

He is, here on youtube

re: "If I ever makes out to New Hampshire guarantee i will have to stop and say hello." 1. Are you being invited to do so? 2. How much of Craig's time do you plan to waste saying "hello?" 3. What would happen to Craig if all 149K subscribers "dropped in to say hello" anytime?? @Ian Anderson

5$ an hr adds up man, you weren't paying enough and he put his two weeks in that IS his word beforehand

@@startingtech3900 Perhaps he could have said something to the owner and used it as leverage for more money. Leaving without a word is just crap.

@@350TPI THANK YOU. Exactly. Come talk. I would have given $5 more just to not search for another mechanic amidst the absolute worst environment you could ask to find a new employee. Got him a car when he was first hired because he is the typical mechanic who is somehow broke on Monday but brings home more than I do on a weekly basis, gifted him a Milwaukee Fuel ratchet for xmas, let him work on personal things after hours in the shop, I bit my tongue when he needed to go to court every month for something new, etc..... Literally had just asked him a few weeks prior about how he liked it and it was all smiles and talking about how wonderful things were. Dude made $18 an hour to do simple wrenching on clean late model cars. Now that I think of it good riddance. Cannot wait to get the repair side closed!

@@GOTboost-tl3qi yea I bet you would of given him a 5$ raise... Get outta here

@@350TPI He owes a 2 week notice nothing more. Sure he could have asked to have the pay matched if he wanted to stay but he apparently did not.

Who’s going to lend you the money to buy cars your daddy?

@@martincito1662 nice try sweetheart. been flipping dirtbikes since i was 15 and then got into cars. started from a $200 saxophone. dont be shy i have videos uploaded.

i thought montego bay was just a brand of cheap liquor

@@chase7537 😳 somebody named a cheap liquor, Montego Bay? What Da Eff???

@@grimori that was the classic when I was like 15

Nee franchise usually do