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.
Life can’t all be brake jobs and pre-delivery inspections. Beating time is the name of the game, but it doesn’t always work out. Watch as a few Dorman mechanics talk about the jobs that make more sweat than bread in this video.
Dressing chisels and punches, however, is a housekeeping task I’ve found not everyone knows they should be doing, and dress your punches and chisels!
There are two kinds of people in the world: race fans and people who haven’t watched these movies.
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Why you should use standard operating procedures for customer communications.
Let’s watch the most creative and crazy sports involving four (and two) wheels on YouTube.
When released from captivity, these things will give ya a case of the spins.
Rust-resisting stainless steel cars are back. Will they have better success than their predecessors?
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.
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Auto care news and advice you can use.
When plastic parts break, sometimes replacements can be prohibitively expensive or hard to find. Learn how to use a hot staple tool to salvage broken plastics for auto repairs and other projects.
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.
Everyone knows about sedans and pickups, but what about shooting brakes and pony cars? Here’s an incomplete guide to the rarer designs on the road.
Giving customers like me a heads-up about recommended maintenance will help us, and yourself.
I really hope the whole week doesn’t go like this.
In spite of the not-so-savory name, this ancillary piece of daily life in the shop is a beloved tradition in the automotive industry.
We read the astrological signs and predicted your automotive future.
