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Hughes Diesel Performance
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The first ever episode of 3T's Mobile Mechanic Podcast
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Jason's Preference for Diesel Engines
00:00:26
Speaker
So Jason, tell us ah why ah why work on cars? Why diesel? Why not gasoline engines? I know nothing about gas and that's PFM to me. Some people might not understand what that means. It's magic. I don't understand how gas works and we're learning day by day. Yeah.
00:00:48
Speaker
But our main market diesel side. um Where did you start? Why did you start working on cars when you were a kid? ah No idea. um Pure ADD, probably.
00:01:00
Speaker
Just not being able to focus on anything and be good at school. Did go to college. Turns out you have to show up. Wasn't good at that.
00:01:11
Speaker
yeah And then I decided, all right, well, we'll try UTI. And from there, it like everything actually clicked. you know Not saying anything good or bad about UTI in general, but it It served its purpose for me. It's a great place to to learn. um But I had to- What was that like?
Education and Training at UTI
00:01:29
Speaker
Because like you said, there's a lot of people that say that UTI is just, you know, a giant money grab and that it's not worth anything. What was the lore to make you want to go to UTI and was it worth the dollar amount?
00:01:42
Speaker
um I say- know my schooling sucked. It was not worth the dollar amount. It was worth it, but I wanted to know if you're going there just like I'm guessing that they can do like the same, like you get out of prison, you have to go to a trade school like and then find a career kind of deal. If you're on that type of avenue or you just don't know what else you're like trying to do with your life.
00:02:03
Speaker
you're not going to learn anything and it's a giant waste of money. Yeah. You know, we did have like my entire class that I started with there and you get all mixed up as soon as you go in there. But the very initial class, I was one of two people that wasn't military.
00:02:19
Speaker
So everyone was just there on the GI bill and you could tell the difference between some of them wanted to know and some of them just, it's just a free ride for them, you know? Did the, um what did they actually, was it relevant stuff that they taught you or was it still behind like years behind?
00:02:37
Speaker
When did you go? What years was it?
Transition to Diesel Mechanics
00:02:40
Speaker
Like 2010 to 2012, something like that. twenty ten to twenty twelve something like that Um, and I'd say at the time it was probably pretty spot on, um, like in hindsight to where vehicles were at, you still learn some of the older stuff, but it was like, this is a carburetor, but you're never going to work on one. Right. Throw it to the side.
00:03:04
Speaker
Um,
00:03:07
Speaker
If you were to try and do it today, i don't know how realistic it would be to even make the attempt to go just because how everything has gotten so specialized. Yeah.
00:03:19
Speaker
Now, is that just because of like in your world, the diesel world, or is that just like what you feel in general because of from being there and seeing what the world, what the actual industry is like now?
00:03:29
Speaker
Seeing what it's like now. okay I'd say when I started, you still had mechanical injection driven off a cam, and they would teach you that on the diesel side um and how all of that stuff
Complexity of Modern Diesel Engines
00:03:42
Speaker
works. And a lot of those engines are still relevant, but you break into any of the newer, like the new X-15s, you have fault code after fault code after fault code that have no fix.
00:03:53
Speaker
it's all a software update. You're not gonna learn that type of stuff in UTI, right? You're gonna learn on an engine that is now 20 years old instead of it only being a couple years old from when I went there.
00:04:05
Speaker
Yeah, I suspect you would have probably learned that more when you were at the dealer. Yeah. Okay. So, you went there for diesel, or did you go there just in general?
00:04:16
Speaker
i Well, i I went there automotive um and then discovered diesel and all of that just magically made sense to me. Okay. The diesel just made sense over a basic gasoline engine.
00:04:29
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah, and and everyone says they're simpler, fewer things to go wrong, and they have never worked on a diesel. believe I personally hate diesel. but not i just I hate all the, in today's world, all the crap on You give me an old 7.3 turbo diesel and I'm a happy guy. I don't mind working on that or dealing with that. ah But like, or my age and now, I probably won't want to work on it. But I don't.
00:04:55
Speaker
I don't know. the The way cars are getting so sophisticated today, even thinking about wanting to work on a diesel, I don't know. Maybe it's just my back. Maybe it's just you know the aches and pains. I don't want to have to deal with it. And hearing the stories of some of the stuff that you work on daily, yeah, I'm good.
00:05:13
Speaker
I don't want to do all that stuff. I mean, that's, it takes, it's, I don't know. I guess there's just more of us regular mechanics that work on gasoline engines every single day and prefer that. It's the same in our head. It's the same as what it's in your head with the diesel world. Like just the way when we talk and hear the way you spit out diesel stuff, the way I can spit out, you know, gasoline stuff or just, you know, basic engines and today or air conditioning for me, you know, it's just those, that's what you do every single day. So it's easy for you.
00:05:42
Speaker
yeah But um so after you left ah UTI, where'd you go then? That's when I started my career with tech equipment in Oakland, California.
Career at Tech Equipment in Oakland
00:05:53
Speaker
And we were only there for like a year and a half. um Then married, kid was on the way. and so that's when we moved up here to Reno. Okay.
00:06:04
Speaker
Same company. what is tech equipment? What what is that? Like ah what kind of vehicles are we talking about here? Mack, Volvo, Prevost, Isuzu, that location did Isuzu and GMC.
00:06:19
Speaker
But big GMC, we're not talking like... The only reason it was still a GMC center is because they were leasing the building up until just a couple years ago from GM. So they got to keep the rights to it being a GMC truck center.
00:06:33
Speaker
But like you'd be working on some Kodiaks and some TopCakes every now and then. But for the most part, it was like... transmission after transmission on Penske box trucks. Jeez. Yeah, that's that's heavy work. That's but that's big time stuff. like transmission. I remember working for, yeah man, I remember working for Bell South or AT&T, but back then it was Bell South. um Changing oil on a bucket truck, you know, on a big giant, you know, crane truck, you're using a five gallon bucket to drain it into because of just how much freaking oil is it? I hated that shit so much, man.
00:07:08
Speaker
But um so but so so we're talking big trucks, like big old trucks here. But every day you're working on stuff that's in the background here. You got that giant truck shoved into your garage there.
00:07:19
Speaker
when did you make the transition to get to like your typical everyday truck? Was it still when you were at the dealer or Yeah, it was, uh, but we started kind of dabbling, I guess, into the side work realm, um, in like 23, 24. Most of it was just like, you buddy's pickups, your neighbor's cars, whatever. And it was like, yeah, that's fine. Bring it down. Like I'll work on it. It's easy enough. Um,
00:07:51
Speaker
then I just found I liked it more. Everything was lighter. every you For the most part, everything's easier to do on a pickup than it is a semi, like purely because it's lighter. But you get so much better support on the the automotive side than you do the commercial side.
00:08:09
Speaker
And it was like, but this kind of all feels like it's fallen into place. Okay. So, okay, I guess I can see that. Like, so you're saying like your typical f three fifty or, you know, Cummins and, you Duramax and stuff, you have an easier time getting that information than you did with Mac and Volvo and Azuzu and all that, especially when you're doing it on your own.
Challenges in Diesel Industry Support
00:08:31
Speaker
Yes. he didn't So being at Tech, we're we are a Cummins certified center, right? So we're a Cummins dealer. Any Cummins that comes in, doesn't matter if it's in Peterbilt, Kenworth, Volvo, whatever.
00:08:46
Speaker
We are technically a dealer for so we have dealer level access to all of that, but you still have to go through tech support to find out so much information, unless you're dealing with an old school engine, like an N 14, uh, that you're, you're almost pulling your hair out the hoops that you have to jump through.
00:09:03
Speaker
And the amount of times you have to call tech support, waste your time pulling it out, then towing it back in. Cause they won't get back to you for two days. Like. Dude, this sucks. It sounds like all the warranty crap when you're just at a regular GM Ford Mazda dealer or something like that, or Honda dealer. If you're dealing like working on regular cars, that's what we had to do. If you were dealing with anything out of the ordinary with warranty, that's what you had to do. But that was very few and far in between. It was not much. Back then when I worked at the dealer, this was your greatest tool. Your pen was your greatest tool.
00:09:35
Speaker
If you knew how to write your tickets out and everything else. But it sounds like whatever you are dealing with, like that would be aggravated because you can't get the answers to move forward with the vehicle if they're not given. So, so are you calling them and having to deal with that because they're just not giving you all the service information or are they not giving you detailed information to diagnose that further down the line?
00:09:58
Speaker
Sometimes just not detailed enough or you're looking for a specific thing like, Hey, I've got this problem with this and it, it changes greatly based on what the application of the engine is. Right. Okay. Like if it's in a ah concrete mixer and they give it to you unloaded, well,
00:10:14
Speaker
you don't have 10 yards of concrete spinning around the back that the repto is constantly driving like you eliminate the load side of it out right or if it's only happening in seventh gear with the boom extended on a concrete pump right at 55 miles an hour type of deal if the speedo works or not when it's pumping like they just don't have the information or the answers to give you and then depending on Like Volvo and Mac are pretty big about it with the new trucks that are coming out for 26.
00:10:45
Speaker
There just isn't service information. Literally anything that goes wrong, immediate tech support case. And you're stuck with that thing for like two or three days at least. So you're not able to move on and make more money and do other things or you have to hope something else comes in for you to make some money on. Yeah.
00:11:03
Speaker
ah So in those
Leaving the Dealership and Starting a Business
00:11:04
Speaker
in those places, I've never really spoken to anyone about you know that works at a big truck place like that. Is it still like the flat rate game or is it a completely different game there?
00:11:14
Speaker
No, it's a it's all hourly except for I think Rush and Rush has International and Peterbilt pretty much across the US.
00:11:26
Speaker
I'm sure there's other dealer groups. Rush is just the parent company for International or Peterbilt, whichever dealer they went. All right. So it still sounds like it sucked anyway.
00:11:39
Speaker
yeah Yeah. Yeah. be not Like sometimes you're sitting there all day on a stool, just pressing a button on a laptop, trying to get something to program. And it's like, Guys, this shouldn't be this difficult. Yeah. Jeez Louise, man.
00:11:51
Speaker
I mean, we know the field. it's It is what it is. All right. so So you went to UTI, then you went into the dealer. Any other dealers, or is that the dealer that you left when you said, screw this, I'm doing my own thing? or That's where I left.
00:12:06
Speaker
That's where you left. And you left that, when did you leave there again? 25. Yeah, April yeah april Susan was just telling me I think it's like April seventh April last year. So it was about a year.
00:12:19
Speaker
about yeah yeah. So I don't remember our first time. So if you listeners are out there, there's a video on my YouTube channel with Jason helping, talking him through just questions he had for me in the mobile world because obviously now he is mobile. That's the whole point of this podcast is talking to guys that are mobile. um you had Where'd you find me at?
00:12:43
Speaker
um I think I was looking into going mobile and was just searching on YouTube for like trailer setups or blab blah, blah, blah, you know, like service rate yeah setups for automotive. And then it popped up with you.
00:12:56
Speaker
Yeah. And we've been talking about the trailer. Okay. That's right. Yeah. Cause you and Chris were one of the first ones that when I was talking y'all about trailer setups and everything. So. he So go ahead and continue. you um you know You were at the dealer and then what was the what was the reasoning besides just you know your typical, I want to do things on my own that you decided I'm going to quit and I'm going to move on?
00:13:19
Speaker
ah a lot of it was just a matter of time. like just You get your burnout on doing the same thing over and over And then it should be exciting because you got the new model line coming out that you have to relearn. But it's like, I didn't, I didn't want anything to do with it. It was kind of like, I already had a ticking clock in my head where it's like, I can't, I can't even wrap my head around training on another model for this, like this whole industry, like in terms of commercial world. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, there was that obviously like I,
00:13:59
Speaker
I don't think any of them listened, but wasn't getting along with like the whole corporate structure of everything. ah
00:14:08
Speaker
That and i was really damn bored. I still go down there every now and then say hi to a couple my old coworkers and we're all good and everything, but it's a 14 day shop with six people in it and they're still not busy now.
00:14:22
Speaker
you know Yeah. So it, so it seems the same thing as the automotive world where there's lack of vehicles and lack of, want to pay well or get the information and everything else. so even the big truck world, it seems like it was the same exact problem.
00:14:36
Speaker
that is in our world with your typical working in the dealers and everywhere else where they manufacture, just see like they want to hold onto all of that information and not give it to us to help us diagnose and repair these cars.
00:14:51
Speaker
So, all right. So April last year, that's when we had originally spoke and you were starting to build a trailer and then you, it's how long was the transition of before you said, okay, I'm done. Like,
00:15:03
Speaker
Were you like chomping at the bit like every day when you were still at the dealer, like for a couple of weeks or what months or? Yeah. So I think we'd actually, i think our first talk was like December or something of 24. Cause it was right in January that ended up like, Hey, I found a trailer, bought it, started to outfit it, got logoed up.
00:15:25
Speaker
And I want to say by like February, March, uh, We pretty much had everything in place to be proper, you know, hopped onto tech metric, all that good stuff.
00:15:37
Speaker
And at that point I was only pulling like 30 hours a week that I was even willing to be clocked in for at tech. And so I was driving the service trailer down there with me and and be like, right guys, time to go. Like I'm out, see you tomorrow and just take off and,
00:15:55
Speaker
Start getting my second job, I guess. Did they look at that as a conflict of interest at all that you were bringing your trailer to go to as your secondary job? Like, were they expecting you to poach the customers or anything?
00:16:08
Speaker
No, no. ah They all knew that I wanted nothing to do with heavy duty anymore.
00:16:15
Speaker
But also, I think realistically, only the other mechanics are the people that even noticed it was there. Okay. Yeah. All right. So yeah, typical, no idea that it was even my trailer. Like you've seen me pull up in the same excursion for the past 10 years and you didn't put the two together.
00:16:32
Speaker
Like yeah last name on there. Yeah, exactly. It just, it says he was across the the side of the trailer. Yeah. I mean, it's the same issues though. Burnout pay structure, you know, management issues. Um,
00:16:48
Speaker
the The service information, it doesn't it seems like it it doesn't change. so um So now you're mobile. um You made that that that transition. So, yeah, you only did maybe four months at most there where you were kind of, and then you you quit.
00:17:03
Speaker
I remember the day you said yeah you quit when you told me. i was like, damn, this is awesome. You know, like, get out there and get it. And that was... Like said, just about a year ago, I've only been 100% live on TikTok consistently for one year now and YouTube a little bit longer than that.
00:17:21
Speaker
And that's if you found me there, then yeah, it's only been a year and four months. So how was it? How was it when you didn't have to go back to that dealer and then the first days you started the company?
00:17:37
Speaker
Was it just perfect? Not perfect, but like, you know, was it okay? We're in it. I'm scared shitless, but this is going to work. And was it awesome or was there like super down times or like, how was the beginning with your, like your marketing and things like that? How did it work out for you? When you made the, the final stepping off the dock onto the boat?
00:17:58
Speaker
The, the last week I had at tech was the spirit shitless week. And then, You know, they did a ah pizza party or something like that for when I left, right? And then I was out by noon and one of my retired coworkers came down, did the pizza party with us. And then as soon as I clocked out, went over to my retired coworkers house,
00:18:24
Speaker
had a beer with him kind of deal we're just bullshitting and uh just started to feel like cloud nine was all of a sudden like approaching you know and just all the weight was starting to lift off woke up the next morning and zero anxiety like no fear about it working out and immediately went to work yeah but it's a hugely different feeling going to work for yourself than it is having to go somewhere where you're forcibly having to do something that you don't want to do every single day. Yeah.
00:18:59
Speaker
yeah You know, I'm not dragging my feet to, to walk out the door to get in it. Like, yeah, snowy day, like, man, just call it off. Right. Reskill people, you know?
00:19:11
Speaker
Ah, man. Yeah. I, as man, it was a long time ago, but I remember, I still remember it. Like, and I wasn't even, in the automotive field anymore at that time. I was cutting grass and I did not.
00:19:24
Speaker
i it's just It just reminds me, even when I worked for people, that you get up in the morning and your alarm goes off. You're like, I ah just don't want to freaking get up. I don't want to go do anything anymore. I'm tired of this.
00:19:37
Speaker
I'm tired of dealing with people that are, they don't care about us. They don't want to pay us. All the same complaints over and over again. That's why I opened a lawn service because I just I need away from the field for a bit. I needed to clear my mind.
00:19:51
Speaker
And then, you know what, whatever it was like three or four years go by. I'm like, what am I doing? Like, I'm still cutting grass like this is stupid. I need to do something else. And that's I started because I started feeling the same way.
00:20:02
Speaker
And now mobile, I'm what? Almost I'm over six years in now or just at six years in now. And I don't feel that way. Maybe Mondays are a little bit like that. It's like, OK, I didn't get enough rest over the weekend.
00:20:14
Speaker
But it's mainly this, you know, between. You know, my business Monday through Thursday in the field, we're in the field to four or five o'clock every day. Friday, lately, we've been in the field because we're just busy, but editing every day and all that stuff. So Mondays feel like that sometimes, but never do I really feel like that when I have to go work on customers' cars.
00:20:36
Speaker
It is always being mobile is just different. Like, I don't know if I would feel the same way if I had a brick and mortar location.
00:20:46
Speaker
Maybe I would, but because it's my own, but either way, just being in business in general
Growth and Success of Mobile Mechanic Business
00:20:54
Speaker
feels good. Cause I did feel that way when I started my lawn service. I like, this is freaking awesome. I like being outside, but cutting grass sucks. It's the same monotony over and over it again. And you talk to yourself way too many times a day. And then when you start answering yourself, then you got a problem.
00:21:08
Speaker
But I mean, ah just, that mobile world is, it's so much different. So, um so, you know, that you, you hit that cloud nine and then you just, it's been busy ever since, right?
00:21:22
Speaker
Yeah. The only slow time we had was kind of intentional. And that was just take some time off over Christmas, you know? Yeah. But how'd that feel though?
00:21:34
Speaker
How'd that feel to be able to take? Was it? And I was like, The phone's not ringing and it's New Year's. Like, oh boy, what are we going to do? you know, it was scary. Give it like three days and then it was just start back up again, you know? And I mean, we still had a couple of calls while we're like on our vacation period.
00:21:53
Speaker
It was hey, I'll hit it. Like once we come back, you know, before people would drop their stuff off, like, hey, i don't need it for like a month. It's fine. i guess but that But that feeling that you get to have to do what you want, make your decisions about your life, about your company versus you know having to be in a location. It's a vastly different mental state. And the anxiety leaves, the depression leaves. being a different it's you You become a completely different person at that point, I think. At least I did when I started to go out on the doing this.
00:22:26
Speaker
You definitely do. And I mean, if I hadn't have done this, I wouldn't have half the friends that I have now. Right. Really, you know, through your group, like just meeting like now I talk to Johnny almost every single day, you know? Yeah.
00:22:40
Speaker
would never have even known about him existing. Right. And then they just turn into friends. Right. Don't cut them a discount, but they just, they actually tend to care about you.
00:22:53
Speaker
You know? Yeah. What's, do you remember your first job? No, no. Like your first job being mobile. Yeah. i had No idea, bro You don't remember? It was only a little a year ago.
00:23:07
Speaker
Yeah. We're lucky if it's like three weeks and I can remember what I did. Ah, man, I remember my first job, but I had multiple different first jobs, though, because I had different different setups and different ways that I had started doing this.
00:23:23
Speaker
I didn't always start with a trailer. I started the first time i was still cutting grass. And I had some stuff in the bed of my truck because I was just kind of toying with the idea of what I was going to do. And I built the whole bed of my truck. I had a ah a flip, a double flip back tonneau cover that would lock down. So when you close the tailgate and lock the tailgate, you couldn't get in. And it was hard cover. It wasn't fabric because I wanted to protect everything. um And i I built it all out real nice toolbox, all this stuff. But then that was when I realized like,
00:23:56
Speaker
um I don't have enough because I had to do a E-Van, an E-350 van with brakes. Definitely the compressor I had took apart and put into the bed of that that truck to be able, I flattened it out, got a pump from Harbor Freight.
00:24:12
Speaker
had a tank and a motor from Harbor Freight. So I was gas powering a compressor. I didn't have battery tools at the time. I never had battery tools when I worked in the field. Only now do I have you know Milwaukee and everything. But um and just no power. No, it wasn't working. That's when I knew like if I want to do this, I can't do it at that level. I want to do it at the level I am now with that full trailer, all that stuff.
00:24:39
Speaker
And but that first job, that E350, no way And then, so when I built the trailer, my first job was a Dodge Ram water pump on a five, seven red. I have some pictures of it looking out my trailer. That was the first ever job I had with the trailer and i didn't screw it up. It went good. So that was a good thing, but,
00:25:06
Speaker
but ah yeah, what was one of your biggest fears when you were starting out? not being able to provide. i mean, that's always our biggest fear, right? You're never going to stay busy enough to, you're going lose the house. You're going to lose like the wife, the kids, you know, you're going to be living homeless, you know, and that's, that's not a fear that goes away. Cause what if this crashes and burns tomorrow? You know, yeah yeah i used to do that a lot.
00:25:33
Speaker
And then, but then I realized like, It would have you you'd have to you have to think about like because that's I guess everyone that's listening like that's a huge fear. Oh, well, what if I don't make it? What if this do you know how bad you'd have to screw up to not make that phone ring?
00:25:48
Speaker
If you've been doing it for a year at minimum, the phone naturally rings. i I tell you guys all the time, you know, how I do my marketing and everything else. I slack on that marketing. I haven't posted on Facebook in a while. I don't, some of the auto parts stores have changed management that I used to get my cards given out.
00:26:07
Speaker
I think only one store gives my, one AutoZone gives out my cards now. It's just natural. Like I would have to throw this phone in the garbage and not answer it for a month and a half for this company to go away. Like I would have to just give up, walk away. Whoever takes that phone, if I ever sell this to someone, like it's it's a turnkey operation at this point. The phone just doesn't stop, which is kind of like how yours is. Like you've built a name for that diesel world where no matter what you do, the phone's just going to keep rigging.
00:26:38
Speaker
It's just going to always ring because everyone's just going to keep telling each other, telling their friends about you over and over and over again. And that takes about a year to get to that point. And the business is just going to naturally roll over. As long as you did that first year right and you did everything we teach you and everything else, which you guys did, that's what's going to happen. And you did. And that's why you're as successful as you are now.
00:27:00
Speaker
Yeah. it day I mean, none of this would have been possible without the whole group. You know? Oh, yeah. I'd have no clue. i so Obviously, I still don't know what the hell I'm doing. Right. But that's what I mean. You learn every day something new. Yeah.
00:27:13
Speaker
You know, especially like ah you've seen the, who's that? Ricky and the boss. Right. i No. Sure. Send the listeners. have I'll have to send the video over to you later, but he just put out a video the other day or maybe it's super old. I don't know. um but Like anyone can say they own a business, but to operate it is something entirely different.
00:27:36
Speaker
And as you say, chase your dreams. That's not a light jog. It's a full frickin sprint. And I was like, every freaking day. Okay. Like you're not wrong, you know? And yeah now it feels like it's kind of a nice jogging pace, right? Because things are flowing. Right. And we didn't do it.
00:27:54
Speaker
So ask backwards when we started, you know? yeah ah And so that's helped a lot, especially on like the stress side of like, how do I make this work? How do I figure out like where to get taxes done at, where to get the proper licensing? Like,
00:28:11
Speaker
having it all in place where now it's just like, dude, DMV sends me an email, renew the garage license for this year. City of Sparks, renew, you know, like it's easy now.
00:28:22
Speaker
It all fell in place. That was like the whole reason why I did what I did with social media is that was my biggest problem and why I started putting that stuff out on YouTube and why you and Chris had, you know, reached out in the beginning anyway.
00:28:36
Speaker
um And then Johnny and and everybody else, but it just, I don't know, there's not enough information out there to
Regulation and Standards in Mobile Mechanics
00:28:43
Speaker
help. And that was the whole point of trying to start this, you know, podcast, our school group. I mean, crap, this morning, I think we had just almost 1200 people in there now in in our school group. And, you know, maybe some of them are just lurkers or, you know, bots and things like that. I don't know, but there's no way to really tell. But still just being able to have that information to help us all to help the mobile world get bigger and do things right, I think is, is great because we, we all got such a bad, there's so many people, especially on Tik TOK and YouTube that just think that still the mobile world is,
00:29:20
Speaker
just out there for a six pack of beer, you know, instead of, you know, real value and everything else. And how do you, how do you navigate that side with not just the the cheap customers wanting to bother you, but like, how does that make you feel compared to some of these people out here that are doing free work and no diagnosis and giving back, you know, the the charges and everything else?
00:29:43
Speaker
So i for the most part, I stay off the Facebook side of it. right But every now and then you go on and you see like, hey, this person's in my area looking for mobile mechanic. And then you see like people that used to be mobile who are now shop owners just saying there are no good mobile mechanics. Like, just take it to my shop.
00:30:03
Speaker
like like You started right where I was, buddy. like Stop that. you know Yeah. Or just people that are saying like, they're all just cheap. Like you can't get good work out of them. They're not licensed, not insured. Like,
00:30:16
Speaker
if you had seen my business card, it has all of our license and insurance information on it. Yeah. like Not as an intended sales pitch, but it's like, Hey, like you get a, um, like electricians, um, business card and it has their license number on it. Like, yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker
Why don't we just do the same thing? wow and Yeah, exactly. The whole point. i mean And that's some of the, like, you are very, very, you're very to the point. You're very like, like you're very put,
00:30:46
Speaker
how do I say this? Well, it sounds like a sh schmuck or being rude. You, you agree to the very strict detail. So like, it wasn't hard for you to do the legal stance with your service. Whereas like some of the guys, you know, it's, it's hard for them to understand why being licensed and insured and not using customer supplied parts is a hard thing for them to grasp and understand because they're not,
00:31:15
Speaker
I don't know why they have that problem. I think it's all psychological. And I know it is because they're ah they're just afraid of certain things they've never run into before. But like I said, you, when we first met, i you always had that stance like,
00:31:30
Speaker
that's not how you do it. This is how you do it. So like, have you learned that there's a little bit of a leeway in certain things outside of the license and insured, which I'm glad that you are, but like, has that changed being in business for yourself now where not everything can be so strict like it was at the big truck dealers?
00:31:50
Speaker
It can know um only, only within a certain degree, I'd almost say it's gotten worse. really Depending on what I'm working on now that I am ah doing other products, it's like, okay, I know that, you know, for a man scanner, Dan, or even had a video on it for Toyota air fuel sensors, like a hundred percent, you cannot use anything aftermarket. You either get it from Toyota or it doesn't happen at all. Like, Yeah. There's some of the cards that like that. Chrysler's big like that, or used to be real big like that. And anything you put on there aftermarket was a piece of crap. Crank sensors.
00:32:26
Speaker
Just to stop. Just go buy a Chrysler one. Get it right you from Mopar. Do not be changing it out. Even the fluids, like i was talking to the other day about some diesel stuff. got to do that guy next week. You know, there's certain fluids, like it is for anything today anyway. It's the transmissions on all the cars today. You can't just go...
00:32:46
Speaker
buy anything and put it in there. You can't use multi-fluid stuff on some of the cars today. Is that harder in the mobile world versus like working in the dealer?
00:32:56
Speaker
Like I find sometimes it's harder to, so I don't do certain services just because I'll send them to a bigger shop depending on the car. But like there's certain things i stay away from because i don't want to do wrong by the customer.
00:33:12
Speaker
Do you find that with diesel? um I wouldn't say so much on the diesel side. I'd say Mopar is by far the worst, right? Which they typically are. Anything Dodge Cummins related, like don't even bother, right? Just take it somewhere else, you know, because you get one that has, they're just asking for a trans service, but it's never been done. You're already at 200,000 miles. like Is this, am I going to get screwed from this and get married to this thing? You know, cause it's a known problem, right? But everybody neglects these things. So it's, yeah I'm not opposed to doing a lot of these services, but if like, this thing's 20 years old, I know you only have 90,000 miles cause it has one purpose and it's to tell your camper, which is good.
00:33:57
Speaker
Um, but you never did it. Like, yeah, you neglected the services, but you get the dude that's 20 years old and 200,000, like you're probably going to be screwed, you know? So you've got kind of pick which ones you want to do, you know? And I don't, I don't want to segregate it like that, but it seems like that's the better route to go, you know?
00:34:18
Speaker
For liability sake and and headache sake. Yeah. I mean, but like, but I think that's the difference that I think that's where a lot of people get that, that misconception or, or they have the problem with mobile in general, because we can't do everything that a shop can do. There's just no possible way doing some of these things in people's driveways that I have learned over the years. I had, in the beginning, I was like, I can do anything.
00:34:44
Speaker
Now it's like, yeah, ain't doing that. Like, or I can't do that safely. I can't do that productively to help you. It's just going to put us all in a bad situation if I do that. Um, so like, so how good are we doing for the customer? Cause they now, now instead of having something at their home, they have to go somewhere else.
00:35:02
Speaker
And I personally have not lost any customers that way. Um, I direct them to people that will do it a hundred percent and then they still come to me for their overall stuff.
00:35:13
Speaker
Um, I'm just upfront with them about, you know, all those different things. Um, but anyway, uh, but going back to that whole thing about, you know, being licensed and insured and everything else.
00:35:25
Speaker
Do you find that that's still a lot in your area too, where you have a lot of guys that are out here just trying to do things on the, you know, on the cheap? Oh yeah. And like I said, the couple of times that i do on Facebook and you see those people post and asking like, you get 10 or 12 different people, some of them putting their business logo up there and all that, but you look them up and it's like,
00:35:48
Speaker
you don't even have a city or a county license, right? And for us, you know, state, county, city, and then you can go to the DMV. i Like, or you don't even have a state. Like, you're you're literally just Joe Blow off the street offering to do this for six pack of beer, like you said.
00:36:05
Speaker
Yeah. like And that's what drives me nuts. Like, and and I get it. There's a customer for everybody. But it's just, it's the same though. And that is another misconception. There's a lot of people out there that no matter what they assume, soon as they hear mobile mechanic, those are the words that come out of their mouth. Instead of taking a step back and looking, I've said it before on the socials that instead of just saying that the mobile mechanic is no good, how about you just say the mechanic is no good or the technician is no good?
00:36:33
Speaker
because you're looking you're not looking at the human being and the technician as a person, you're looking or as at what they do as a job. You're just classifying us as the ones that are that and that's not who we are.
00:36:48
Speaker
we you know We believe that charging a proper rate, we believe in figuring out your labor rate, understanding what your margins are, running a business the right way, legally insured, your area's much worse than Florida.
00:37:02
Speaker
when it comes to all the things you're having to do, but you see these guys out there that are just doing it and there's no, there's no way to stop them. There's no way to change it. um But still talking about a mechanic in general, you have the same mechanics and chops. They just,
00:37:18
Speaker
give themselves a bad name because they're the ones that are oiling down shocks and replacing them. And when they don't need to be replaced and, you know things like that probably doesn't happen as much anymore as it happened back in the day. But, you know, things like that still happen today. We've, we hear about it on everybody else's podcast and stuff like that, where they run into those same problems. So it's, it's the same, it's the same person.
00:37:40
Speaker
just now that mobile is so big, you're going to see more people that go and do that stuff cheap because they just don't have...
00:37:51
Speaker
I don't understand why they won't just do it the right way. Like, why won't you get legal? Why won't you get insured? And don't know. Maybe it's just a ah mind thing for them. I don't don't understand. Or they just want to hide all their cash and never have to pay any tax or anything like that. They're the ones that will suffer in the end.
00:38:06
Speaker
So it doesn't really change ah the the matter for us. But um what do what do you what do you think would help our mobile world with those types of people? Is there a way that we could eventually stop that or no?
00:38:21
Speaker
I mean, the easiest way to do it would be like some kind of regulation enforcement, right? Because I think Michigan's the only state that you actually have to get a state certification to be a mechanic. Wasn't it, Michigan?
00:38:34
Speaker
ah Michigan, I thought maybe New York, possibly. i know Jeff up in Canada has to do stuff like that. um I don't know exactly what the the things are, but yeah, i mean, everyone's always like, oh, ASE. ASE is not legal. It doesn't matter. legal. The ASE is really, really good if you're if you're training yourself all the time because you go in there and take the test be like, oh, look at that. I haven't seen that a very long time. I need to brush up on that. Like I heard that once on Jeff's podcast and it was, that's a really good way to look at that. Like it's ah it's a good way to know if your training's working because you're staying up to date with all that stuff because you never know if that training works until you see the car you need to work on.
00:39:15
Speaker
So if you're going to go take tests on it and you fail that test, you might want to go do some training on that. But yeah, there is no So in Florida, we have the – But there's no – I mean, i was going to say there's no regulation. Yeah, there's no regulation. There's nothing. I that would help but you also need some way to hold the people that are regulated accountable and yeah make it so you can't do it unregulated.
00:39:39
Speaker
Right. So ah yeah, California is like that, I thought, right? It's not that bad. No? Okay. I don't know what states require certain things because like there's states where you can have a shop at your house. You know, the zonings are always different. You know, here you can't. You can't do anything like that. I wish I lived in an area where I could have a garage on my property. I would just to be able to do more.
00:40:04
Speaker
But then and because so that it's a, you know, it's like an oxymoron. I'm allowed to be mobile, but I can't do it at my house, but I can do it at your house. So like, where where do you draw the line? You know, where does it go? But yeah, the regulation thing, I don't want more government involved in it. I don't want to deal with that. But.
00:40:23
Speaker
we have the Florida department of agriculture, they regulate shops, but they only regulate you to have a good relationship with the customer. So like it's, you have to sign up with them as a, as a um auto repair facility, but they're only dictating your invoice and your estimate forms. That's it. They want your invoice and estimate form to have certain verbiage on there.
00:40:47
Speaker
and you're not allowed to move your written estimate signature more than $150 from what the customer signed for above. um Obviously, you can take $1,000 off without their signature, the customer is not going to care.
00:40:59
Speaker
But if you raise it more than $150, you're not allowed. um But that's it. There's nothing else more to that regulation from the Florida Department of Agriculture. They're not they're not actively checking on anybody. there's It's not like the EPA where they would be coming around Search it or like the DOT DOT would stop lawn guys at gas stations looking for weed killer.
00:41:24
Speaker
um Back in the day, they had something called citrus canker or something like that. It was called. So they wanted you to carry bleach and spray your machines down with bleach because certain citrus trees in South Florida were dying.
00:41:36
Speaker
and getting on the lawnmowers and then getting diseases on other trees. So the citrus crop was dying back in like the nineties. And my dad cut grass. He's like, I'm not carrying bleach. Give me a ticket. I don't care.
00:41:47
Speaker
So they're worried about, you know, stuff like that, but we've got people driving down the road and Billy Bob over here is putting your brakes on it and not tightening bolts. And you're okay with that. Like the consumer is not understanding that side. So, but again, there's no way to regulate,
00:42:04
Speaker
the neighbor coming to your house to do repairs on your car. Like we're never going to get away from that no matter what. It's always going to be a problem. And I guess that's what maybe the shops always thought about us as mobile. Like we're always going to be a problem, but that's the whole point of me doing what I'm doing, trying to make it known that,
00:42:21
Speaker
More and more guys that are getting in business, I think, are doing it the way we teach than the way they think that everyone else is doing it. And it's just more rampant on the negative side than the good side, I think, on social media.
00:42:35
Speaker
Yeah. I mean, I assume, but I don't know. I think it's one of those things where we're never going to win. yeah No, probably not. Not probably in our lifetime.
Future of Mechanic Education and Mentorship
00:42:45
Speaker
We might make a good dent and a good change. But if if the younger generation is not going to continue to come up, who was I talking to about this? um I think it was it might have been someone in the group I was talking to in the school group. um They were talking about you know the possibility of like retirement age. like I always thought when I retired from working on cars and in the field that I would become you know an instructor because that would always be something really cool to be able to help the younger generation.
00:43:13
Speaker
it's all gone. You know, my high school automotive instructor was a drunk and all he did was sleep and because he was always hung over all day long. So all we did was hang out, goof around on all the, the the school cars and destroy them and smoke cigarettes. That was it. Like,
00:43:32
Speaker
What is this? Like, you know, you have this, it was such a nice facility and it was just trash, you know, but always, and then the same with the colleges around here. There's no, i think there's one college around here that has ah an automotive program and that's it. There's nothing else around here for kids to leave high school and go into. It's more um farming and law and ah electrical line work here.
00:43:57
Speaker
you have any colleges there that still teach automotive? We do. um And I think you can do automotive and a diesel through them. I don't know if they're part of the cat program.
00:44:12
Speaker
See, and that's, don't know. We're losing. I think our society is losing all that because like they don't do home ec anymore. They don't do any of those things to help us understand, help kids in today's world. Like even my kids, my kids are,
00:44:27
Speaker
18, 21, and I don't know, like, I think he's like 24 or something like that. um But they didn't have any clue that. I had to teach them all this stuff. Coming home from school, that they don't learn anything about a checkbook or, you know, because it's all gone. They don't understand that available and ah actual dollar amount in your checking account mean two different things. Like that's not your money. You already spent it.
00:44:49
Speaker
You know, like we just, we're not teaching our kids the basics of society. So no one wants to get into blue collar work anymore. They all think that it's this, you know, it's all online and everything else. And it's not, this was not the easiest thing for me to build and start and do, but we need more educated minds wanting to get into it and doing the automotive world. But there's so many other people that talk about that stuff. It's not really the whole point of this podcast in general, but it is, it's the automotive industry in a way, but just our side of it that nobody really wants to talk about.
00:45:26
Speaker
mean, there was a kid that I think he's, he's in his last year of high school or something. Right. And I'm just doing an oil change on his Fiesta and, finding out why it randomly dies.
00:45:37
Speaker
They swapped the battery out because it was dying or not starting and they left the ground cable loose. So then it was just dying. was like, you guys fixed it, but you also made your own problem. yeah But he was asking question after question after question of like, how do you do this? How do you do this? Like, can you show me how to do the light bulbs on this car? Like, yeah, no problem. And he's like, so this is kind of what I think I want to get into. And i was like,
00:46:00
Speaker
good luck. You know, I would say don't find a, find a better industry where people don't hate your guts all the time. But at the same, like, I don't want to defer people away from it, but it sucks being in it, man. And I can't imagine. i don't have a good, we don't have a good place to put them.
00:46:17
Speaker
We don't, there's, it's, it's a unicorn style thing. um There's great dealers. There's great shops. Obviously we've heard them all. We, they talk about them all.
00:46:28
Speaker
You know, there's great places, you know, we can name a million of them right now that we see on social media all day long, but is it in everyone's area for this person to go ahead and get into that, into that field without,
00:46:42
Speaker
getting forced to go into the lore of the snap on truck or the Mack truck or something like that. It's that's a ah huge conversation that I hear Jeff talk about all the time. And it's, it's never ending because yes, like, so my trailer set up to have a business the way I have that trailer is going to cost someone, you know, at minimum 50 grand to put that together to do that.
00:47:08
Speaker
ah You don't have to start out doing that. I didn't. Obviously, you heard the story. We started out minimal. But what other job can you go get into? Most of them you go. When I was in air conditioning,
00:47:21
Speaker
They gave me a van and some tools. I had to go buy hand tools. um They gave me the big stuff like vacuum pump. um They supplied the refrigerant um and they supplied the truck and some torches.
00:47:34
Speaker
I just had my basic bucket of hand tools to service air conditioning and do duct work. that was easy. You know, you're barely spending 200 bucks, you know, and then you get a, we didn't have gauge sets like you got, you know, back then it was just turn knob, you know, gauge sets in like 2000, but it was easy to do.
00:47:55
Speaker
um it was easy to get into. It was fun. Cause it's the same type of thing for me doing home air conditioning, the same diagnosis, you know, style, but the, the industries are vastly different and you just have to look at it a different way. I guess. I don't know.
00:48:09
Speaker
I'd, I think it's hard for the younger generation to get in unless they find themselves a great dealership or a very, very good shop or someone's willing to help them learn and get trained. And I think more of those places are coming out more and more. I just listened to Jeff's podcast again. It took me two days to get through, but he was talking to a gentleman that that's where he's at. He's at a dealership and he went back to the dealership because that's where he originally started at.
00:48:37
Speaker
And he's trying to help grow it. So he's trying to help the younger techs understand that why the training and everything is important so they could do the job right. But again, most it's unfortunate that most of the guys that are getting in are not getting it in the right way.
00:48:54
Speaker
No. Or they're getting in a way where they lose. Most people you end up meeting that showing interest, like they still typically want to find the easy route, you know? And it's like, you can't like,
00:49:08
Speaker
There's another guy that he actually joined the school community too. I don't know if he's active on there or not, but I see him about once a week now. He's trying to do the exact same thing, right? And I'm trying to steer him in the right direction. Like, hey man, here's the insurance guy that I used. Like, give him a call. Like, he's slowly working his way through licensing while working and all that kind of stuff.
00:49:27
Speaker
um But I was like, anything you need, like give me a call, but here's my login for ProDemand. Here's my login for Identifix. Like go through it. You know, like you have be able to read and understand what you're doing before you do the jobs.
00:49:40
Speaker
It will help, you know? It is. Yeah. can do a standard brake job until we find out you're supposed to disconnect the battery and drain half the reservoir on a GM. like Oh, crap. I can't do a standard brake job. you know Yeah, it's not the it's not the basics anymore. And I think that's another huge problem with us being mobile is that there is jobs that are getting harder and harder to do.
00:50:03
Speaker
ah You can't just do basic things. You can't just go put a set of headlights in it because you got to pull the bumper and it's got ADOS. Well, don't touch it. You need to back off. You need to send it somewhere. But then that's where people say, well, see, that's why mobile sucks. No, it doesn't because...
00:50:18
Speaker
I can do the job if I take it to the dealer and set it up that way. So there's no different for mobile versus a brick and mortar as long as that brick and mortar understands the same process that when they're done, they need to take it over to the dealer to get the ADOS done if they can't do the ADOS themselves. It has to be recalibrated if you're touching those centers and moving them. And other people are like, well, I might put the bumper back where it was.
00:50:42
Speaker
but the sensors are in the bumper. So if you move it a millimeter here, it's inches over there and that's life and death or accidents because it it's looking at oncoming traffic for braking systems. And, you know, you got Hyundai. I had a Hyundai once that would take the turns for you.
00:50:59
Speaker
Like if those ADOS sensors were off, I would hit people. So, you can't just be out here tearing things apart. Um, I I'm mentioning Jeff again, but he had mentioned that he was doing eight, uh, doing a radiator on something.
00:51:14
Speaker
And the radiator says, pull the bumper. Um, And once you pull the bumper, do this. It doesn't say anything about recalibrating, but when you pull the bumper, it says you have to pull the front camera in order to move all that. So now you have to have ADOS. that The story might be slightly different there, but you get what I'm saying. is like So if you don't have i know what you're talking if you don't have service information and you don't know how to read it, you're going to cause a problem. And that's the problem with all of these so-called mobile mechanics that...
00:51:46
Speaker
I would not put into our same classification. I would not classify them as mobile mechanics. I would classify them as problems. And it's a harsh thing to say, and I don't care. They're problems. They're the ones that I don't believe should ever be touching a vehicle.
00:52:01
Speaker
If you don't have, and this is, It's, you know, again, how do I say it without being rude is there is a lot of people that I see that are in the group and they are part, they are online following, oh, I just, you know, I'm 19 and I want to start a business.
00:52:18
Speaker
No. You don't like you have to understand how dangerous this can be. You have not just the person's car of life in your hand. You have everybody else around them.
00:52:31
Speaker
And if you start screwing with things and like you said, you know, oh, it's just a break job. Why do we start the lowest technician in the shop at the most detrimental job? Oil changes and brakes and tires.
00:52:44
Speaker
That's the thing on the ground. Like that should, if they don't know how to use a torque wrench or have a torque wrench and they don't know how to do brakes and tighten it up and clean them and do all these things the right way, you're giving them the most detrimental job of people's safety and destroy destruction of the car.
00:53:00
Speaker
How many times we had lube techs that forgot to tighten Oil filters or doubled up an oil filter and made a mess everywhere and had an engine knocking. I would much rather have that lube tech come in and learn from a train.
00:53:16
Speaker
Someone that actually does training someone that's trained in training somebody to do the job right before you just throw them to the wolves and say, go do all changes. Hell no. If i had a dealer or or a shop, that would not be the way I would do it. I would do it completely different than that. I know we're getting off track here. That's how how my podcast is going to Commercial's the same way.
00:53:37
Speaker
You're just... Now you have a 13 liter engine that costs $35,000 that you forgot to tighten the drain plug on, right? Yeah. You got going on the road. I'm not going say didn't ever forget any of that crap when I was a noob, but still, like...
00:53:50
Speaker
Yeah, mistakes happen 24-7 and that's the best teacher out there, right? Yeah, mean but that's what but that's again what we're going after here is you've got guys that aren't technically trained that call themselves mobile mechanics that are working on everyday people cars that shouldn't because it's going to continue to get dangerous and it's going to continue to get harder and harder to do.
00:54:14
Speaker
with the tooling and everything else. And and that's the biggest thing. Like people are like, Oh no you can't have the junk scan tools, man. I was looking at a Chrysler yesterday. um Durango had the snap on hooked up.
00:54:29
Speaker
I'm looking for four pit, ah eight pits. I'm looking for intake desired. and intake, uh, uh, intake desired intake actual on bank one and two. So that's four. And then exhaust, uh, actual and exhaust desired on bank one and two.
00:54:50
Speaker
I've got seven PIDs in the snap on, not my eighth PID, not the one I need exhaust to desire, uh, actual I have desired. So I'm trying to see if my, I had a loud noise in the timing area. Sounds like, like a collapsed, um, uh,
00:55:09
Speaker
chain guide, not guide, ah chain tensioner. There's a loud knocking noise right behind the cover. So I want to check all the timing to see if it was moving because he was having misfires.
00:55:20
Speaker
No, Snap-on won't do it. The MooCar, my $500 thing, all the pins are there. Perfect. But like most guys aren't going to have two and three different scanners that can get you through that point. So again, even though mobile is enticing, there's There's still levels to it. So I don't see how being mobile is vastly different than the shops, though, what everyone has to say about us all the time, you know, saying that we're cheap and everything else. It's not. we I think we have proven by falling into those categories that there is way too many things that we still need that the shops need in order to do the job.
00:55:59
Speaker
It's the same as having a brick and mortar. I just don't have a freaking roof over my head. We're still doing it on the same caliber as they are. And I mean, and maybe it's the same for you. Maybe it's not, but how many jobs do you show up to and like, well, this is what we do. It needs this, this, and this. Right. And they ask a question like, well, why do we need, like, you know, in my case, like a huge one, it says one time use hardware.
00:56:21
Speaker
Brickin' one time use, right. Not taking the chance there. Why do we need all this? Like I've never had that anytime I took it to the dealer, like, well, because the service information says it's one-time use, and I'm sorry the dealer never did it correctly then. Like, I don't know what to tell you.
00:56:36
Speaker
Yeah, there's there's a lot of guys that are very, you're very big on that. That kind of what I was saying before. Like, if the service information says this, this is what you do. And stuff like that, it should be because a lot of that stuff can be torqued to yield.
00:56:48
Speaker
So bolt stretches, you need to throw it out. You need to do something else. And there's some of those that are on brake calipers. I think ah Sherwood from Royalty Automotive was talking about that recently in one of his posts. it says it's one-time use. You got to get rid of it. That's why people like I'm not paying $800 for a break job.
00:57:04
Speaker
You can get it done by Joe Schmo and be wrong. It's fine, you know, but there's a reason why things cost what they cost because it's either do it right or do it wrong, you know, and most guys are doing it wrong.
00:57:16
Speaker
It is what it is. All right. So am. There's something here. The, ah is there anything you would do different? in from when you started to today?
00:57:31
Speaker
I don't think there is actually. No. I think I may, the only thing would probably just be, i changing the sides of the trailer up to actually have included just for, as you're driving it around, cause it's just the logo that's on there.
00:57:47
Speaker
Nobody knows what's inside that trailer or why I'm driving it around, you know? Um, that That would probably be the only thing I would do different is when I got it decaled, probably put some lettering on there to say that, you know, we are a mobile mechanic, do AC work, do diagnostics.
00:58:03
Speaker
It's kind of like why I decided to go with mine. You know, 3T is mobile automotive repair, on-site diagnostics and repair. Yeah. on the side of it. I, cause I was going to wrap my trailer and then the guy I met, the one that you guys see in the videos with the 53 Ford that I've been doing the panel van.
00:58:20
Speaker
um He's the guy that does all the sign work. He's an old school pinstriper, wrap the, the wrap fink stuff and everything um that when you're like, I want those signs on the garage wall.
00:58:31
Speaker
Yeah. That old Mac one. It's guy's garage. hu That old Mac one. Yeah. um Like he's the one that painted. He's actually on YouTube with him doing that ah whatever you call it style painting on those trucks. It's a northern thing, like a main thing. up in Maine where they do that style of painting and he's on YouTube talking about it and everything. um But he, ah he's the one's like, no, no, no, no.
00:58:57
Speaker
You don't want to rap. He's like, and a car happened to go by. He goes, well, that one right there. What is that? I'm like, i have no idea, but it looks cool. He's like, yeah, but no one knows what it is.
00:59:07
Speaker
They only know what it is because it catches your eye and now you have to look. Yours, oh, you do auto repair, right? Yep. There you go. yeah It works so much better than anything else. so All right, man. We've been on for about an hour here, so we're going to definitely start ending it here. So anything you want to say to anybody that wants to start mobile, what would be the first thing you tell them?
00:59:33
Speaker
Start small, service information comes first before you start buying tools. Make sure you want to be able to do this, you know? Anything else? Like, ah so that's what you're saying before, even hand tools, that's the type of tool you need for service information, software.
00:59:51
Speaker
Yeah, if you don't know how to torque something, Don't even bother touching it, right? Everything has a torque spec for a reason. Follow it. I know there's some things, yeah, you can get away with like little harness clips that it's like just a little M5 screwdriver, right?
01:00:06
Speaker
If you can't do the job right, don't bother doing it. Don't bother offering it. That's just how I see it. you know Very particular. it's it's Yeah, I'm particular and i I did not make this successful by doing it incorrectly. Half asked. I just tend to take shortcuts. you know Yeah, that's good. Yeah, because most of them are.
01:00:26
Speaker
All right, guys, we're going to end it here. i appreciate you listening. And if you're on YouTube watching, that's awesome. We're going to wrap it up here for today for the Three Tees Bowl Mechanic Podcast. Everybody, thank you, Jason, for coming on. We appreciate it for sharing your story and everything else. And we will see you guys on the next episode. Thanks for watching.