Starting a shop and managing it to the big leagues require very different skills. Odds are you don’t have both, and that’s okay.
How does your shop weigh the risk and reward of customer-supplied parts?
Largely supercar fare, wild points of entry have no shortage of variety.
A shop foreman who did it for a year gained some firsthand experience that might help you answer the question.
Auto care news and advice you can use.
It isn’t the “registration and insurance card box,” after all.
I was raised in times and places where it was considered a mark of pride to get the job done, no matter the risk to your own body. That, friends, is bunk.
In my salvage yard days, I learned a trick I still use today that’s the fastest method in the world, hands down.
Turning all jobs into team efforts promotes knowledge transfer to the less-experienced techs, who pay tuition in physical labor.
Here’s an easy guerilla marketing trick to get your customer counts up by selling on your days off.
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Auto care news and advice you can use.
What causes brake noise?
Giving customers like me a heads-up about recommended maintenance will help us, and yourself.
A new bill in Pennsylvania would create an alert system that service centers would need to regularly check.
Who puts a battery in a fender? Quite a few mechanics, that’s who.
Some sources say you should never, ever plug a tire … despite the fact that trained professionals have been doing it for decades. We debate.
We read the astrological signs and predicted your automotive future.
Stop telling your customers otherwise—modern fuel systems don’t care.
Engine oil is a lubricant, but that’s not what the task’s title is referencing.
