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mechanics are tired of dealing with the
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bull craap that comes along with fixing
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cars you can ask any mechanic the
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problem isn't just the cars it's the
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terrible people that own them people
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treat mechanics like we're trash and act
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like we're all scammers when 99% of
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mechanics just want to fix some cars
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make some money and go home but several
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factors can make that difficult one
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being today cars are not made as well
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two being the people that own the cars
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are broke and difficult three being the
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system itself of car repair is broken so
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when you're mechan in today's world
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you're either working on an older car
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that's on his last set of wheels or a
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newer car that's poorly designed and
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made to fail this can make jobs on both
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difficult because on older cars things
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will break when you're taking stuff
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apart and newer cars aren't always
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designed with the mechanic in mind let's
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start by talking about older cars most
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of them were made better and built to
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last so they're still on the road and
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when they come into the shop and they're
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in decent shape their owner cares a lot
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about them but these cars are over 20
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years old so it's likely when you're
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fixing one problem you will find others
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along the way or even worse you may
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break some things which will cost you
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time and money now rust is the devil to
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a mechanic and it can make the easiest
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job take triple the time it should and
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older cars are usually full of rust in
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the worst places another factor is
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getting parts for older vehicles get
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used to hearing that part has been
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discontinued or hey it's on back order
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and then you have to use some janky
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aftermarket part that's built in
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someone's basement or a sweat shop in
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China and it won't last half as long as
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the OEM part now this isn't just a
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problem with the older cars newer cars
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are designed poorly and they are filled
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with recalls and bad designs that fail
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all the time and when these designs fail
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all the time they all fail at once and
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when they all fail at once everybody
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orders the same part at once and when
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everybody orders the same part at once
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that part gets out of stock and when
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that part gets out of stock it goes on
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back order and usually you can't get it
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for months at a time and then you're
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forced to use a janky after market part
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and we already went over that they
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usually don't work half as good and when
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you get a part that doesn't work half is
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good and it fails in half the time the
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customer brings the car back to you and
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then blames you for the problem and that
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brings me to my next point we already
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discussed the cars and like I said the
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cars aren't the big problem the big
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problem is usually the people that own
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the cars they don't understand the car
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they don't understand how it works and
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they don't understand how a mechanic
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does his job now just like there's good
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and bad mechanics there's good and bad
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people and in fact most people are
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actually good and are decent enough to
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give you the respect you deserve but a
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good portion of the population treat
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their cars like trash and usually when
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they treat their cars like trash they
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also treat their mechanics like trash
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and ironically those are the people that
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usually need the mechanics the most cuz
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they're the ones that usually have the
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most broken cars in turn these are the
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people that mechanics see most of the
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time unless you're working in a Mercedes
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or Audi dealership with goldplated
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floors and Kool-Aid running out of the
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water fountain you're usually going to
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see Hyundai and Kia owners or even worse
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a Jeep owner and these people don't
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treat their cars very well and you can
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usually tell the type of of person by
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the type of car and the way it looks on
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the inside and out for instance if we
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have a 4Runner come in and it's clean on
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the inside and really clean on the
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outside odds are that job's going to go
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pretty smoothly and we're going to have
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a pretty good relationship with that
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customer moving forward but if a car
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comes in and it's a Nissan Ultima and
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the hubc Cap's missing and it's got a
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cracked bumper on it and it doesn't look
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very well on the inside either we know
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that putting a transmission in this car
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probably isn't going to be the smartest
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thing to do even though the customers
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insist on it and that's exactly what
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happened to this 2013 Nissan Ultima this
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car came in we knew it wasn't worth the
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price of a transmission repair but the
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customer stated she had no money in the
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car as it was given to her and she was
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ready to spend money so she had a good
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reliable vehicle she was desperate for a
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car and even with the Hefty bill this
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was about the cheapest option she had
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and we stayed in contact with her for
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weeks and months talking about the bill
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making sure she was going to come in and
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pay it and she always insisted that she
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was going to come in and pay us and I
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actually believe her and actually
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believe that she was going to do it that
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is until the day that we no longer heard
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from her and I guess she found a cheaper
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option for a nice reliable car and I
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can't say I blame her if she did find
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that cheaper option but now I'm stuck
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with a 2013 Nissan Ultima and I got to
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get my money back out of it and this
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isn't the only story I have like this in
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fact I have a lot of stories like this
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and it was my main job when I first
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started helping out at the shop to get
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all the abandoned cars off the lot and
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get whatever money I could for them and
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I bet I've done over a hundred of them
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for my dad and for my shop and other
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shops in the local areas that's right
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it's not just a problem at my shop it's
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a problem at other shops and I have a
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couple businesses I'm partnered with
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where if they have cars that are just
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left on the lot I'll come over there
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I'll look at the car and I'll actually
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give them an offer to buy it so they can
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get it off of their lot now sometimes
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these cars are left abandoned before
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they're even repaired and sometimes they
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are repaired and then left abandoned
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either way they probably need some more
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repairs before they're in a sellable
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condition so anytime a car is left on
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the lot it's a guaranteed liability and
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it's going to be guaranteed you're going
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to have to pour more money into it to
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get your money back out of it let's take
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this 2013 Nissan Ultima as an example we
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got a transmission for this thing
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straight from the dealership and the
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transmission alone cost us about
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$2700 now when you factor in other costs
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like programming and fluid and labor we
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probably had about $3,500 in this job in
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total now we didn't have the job sold
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for much more than that and I can't
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remember the exact figure but it doesn't
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matter anyways because we did not
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collect the money and the only way we
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could collect the money now was to get
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the title for this vehicle and try to
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get it in sellable condition and get our
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money back out of the resale value so
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now this car is ours long story short we
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did not get our money back we only got
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about $2,700 for this vehicle after
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months of it sitting on our lot for sale
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I've had vehicles that we actually got
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for free and we P little money money
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into it and we're able to sell it for a
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decent profit and I've also had Vehicles
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like this Nissan Ultima where we did not
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make any money on it and in fact we lost
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money on doing the business now this is
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the system that has been set up in the
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automotive industry that's causing all
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these issues the system itself is flawed
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and it's the mechanics that usually get
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the short end of the sticks and also
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ironically the blame for everything as
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well like I said in the beginning of the
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video most mechanics just want to fix
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some cars make a decent living and go
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home and live a peace ful life I have
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never once met a greedy mechanic that
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was trying to get out there and scam
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people out of their money like most
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people think they are those people are
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service Riders and they can either be a
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mechanic's best friend or worst enemy
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the problem with service Riders is they
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usually come from a sales background
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which means they're going to try to
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pitch a sale to you when you need them
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to fix your car and nobody wants to be
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sold to when their car is broken so
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often times when you're an independent
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shop the service Rider will need help
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from the mechanic explaining the issues
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and actually getting the customer to
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sign off on the repair which takes up
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more time for the mechanic now there are
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good service Riders out there but they
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are not easy to find and usually they
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are older mechanics that are just tired
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of working on nuts and bolts and they
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just want to answer phones now and stay
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in the AC now service Riders are
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absolutely necessary in the repair
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industry because we can't have customers
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one-on-one with the mechanic at all
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times one the mechanic doesn't have time
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for that and two the mechanic is more
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prone to help the customer out by giving
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them a cheaper price which is okay for
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the customer and okay for the mechanic
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of as long as he can afford it but
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usually in this industry you will not
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make any money helping people out with
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prices and that brings me to my final
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point the system of car repair itself is
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broken and it's not the mechanics to
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blame it's not the service Riders to
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blame it's the manufacturers we need to
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blame because they're the ones that have
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designed these cars where they cost so
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much to repair that it leaves little
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room for a little guy like the mechanic
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or service Rider to make any money off
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the repair on the back end one major
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expense that has tripled in the last
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couple years is labor now labor has gone
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up for several different reasons one
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because it's in higher demand because we
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have less mechanics out there willing to
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do this work and two it's because these
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cars are more advanced now and it takes
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a more advanced mechanic to get them
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fixed now nobody ever tells anybody this
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when they're going to buy a car that's
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brand new and has all this new
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technology in it they don't mention how
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hard it may be to fix or how much it's
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going to cost when it finally breaks
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this is the manufacturers throwing the
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service Riders and mechanics under the
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bus because they got got to be the bad
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guys to tell you that your car sucks and
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it's going to cost way more than it's
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worth to fix and this is why service
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Riders and the mechanics get the bad rap
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when they really shouldn't and honestly
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they're the ones that get paid the least
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I mean the guys that sell the cars
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they're always in the nice fancy suits
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and driving to Mercedes to works and the
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guys that are working on them they're
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the ones driving the old 1997 Toyotas
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that's because the way mechanics get
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paid usually is not fair they get paid
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on a system called Flat Rate which means
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you get paid for what you get done and
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the good thing for that is is the more
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things you do the more you get paid but
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you only get paid for a certain amount
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of time per job for instance if a job
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calls for 4 hours to remove and replace
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a transmission and you get it done in
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two well you get paid 4 hours for that
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job even though it only took you two
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here's the bad part unless you're a
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mechanic that's really experienced and
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you know the car like the back of your
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hand that transmission swap is probably
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not going to take you 2 hours it's
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probably really going to take you eight
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which is double the time that you're
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going to get paid for now not all jobs
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are like that there are jobs called
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gravy jobs that are fairly easy to get
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done and they pay a lot of time so you
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can make a lot of money doing those jobs
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but they're not easy to come by and if
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you've ever worked on a car you know
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that unexpected things happen like
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broken bolts and Rusty studs that take a
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job that should take 30 minutes and turn
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it into a 3-day ordeal now imagine
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you're in one of those jobs that's
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taking 3 days and it should have took 30
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minutes that means you're only going to
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get paid for 30 minutes even though
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you've been working 3 days and then you
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go to look at your next job and you see
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that it's a comeback from last week and
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it's all warranty work which means
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you're not going to get paid for any of
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it now these are real life situations
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that mechanics go through every single
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day and it is the number one reason why
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we have a shortage of mechanics in the
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US OFA and if we don't fix it soon you
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will have nobody to work on your cars
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and you'll have to email me about every
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single car problem you have and if you
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do have any car problems and you have
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any questions about it you can email me
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at just callme Edy 1@gmail.com and I'll
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help you out with any problems that you
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have have you can also follow me on
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while you're at it thanks for watching
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and whatever you do however you do it
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make sure you work hard make sure you
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play hard and most importantly make sure
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you stay dirty you can just call me
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Eddie
