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Episode 20- Wiktor Ivanovko "Your Soviet vehicle inspector" He brings comedy and vehicle repair to a whole new level!
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Brand new podcast hosted by a Shop owner and a Shop owner/Technician . Wiktor really made us laugh on this one! His story where the "Soviet vehicle inspector" came from was quite interesting and its blossomed into a huge following online and at his shop. Give this one a listen and enjoy!
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Transcript
Introduction and Humor with Victor
00:00:01
Aniz Lavji
Welcome everyone to another episode of the Shop and Tread Talk podcast. As usual, we've got Frank with us today and our guest today. Victor, why don't you introduce yourself?
00:00:13
Wiktor
Hello, my friends. I am Victor, your Soviet vehicle inspector. Here today with... i don't I don't know where I was going with that, but here I am.
00:00:21
Frank Wiebe
but Here we are, all together, finally at last.
00:00:25
Aniz Lavji
There we go. Took us a couple tries here. Looks like our server or technical difficulties, but...
00:00:29
Frank Wiebe
Technically, it's a copy.
00:00:31
Wiktor
it is It is my fault. I am on the internet. I don't i don't understand how the internet works.
00:00:36
Frank Wiebe
Okay.
Victor's Industry Experience and Humor
00:00:38
Aniz Lavji
ah Victor, why don't you tell us whereabouts is your shop and ah what kind of expertise do you have in your field?
00:00:48
Wiktor
I mean, at this point, i would I would... We will say general area of shop is American Midwest, just for for safety purposes. As far as area of expertise, I kind of just do it all and figure it out as I go. i have been in industry for 23 years now.
00:01:10
Aniz Lavji
Okay.
00:01:11
Wiktor
My knees hurt they just saying that out loud.
00:01:15
Frank Wiebe
Only 23 years, man.
00:01:15
Wiktor
That's...
00:01:16
Frank Wiebe
It's just barely getting in there.
00:01:18
Wiktor
yeah tell Tell that to my knees.
00:01:20
Frank Wiebe
Yes. ah
00:01:22
Aniz Lavji
Any ah certain makes and models that you work on at your shop?
00:01:27
Wiktor
Oh, pretty much everything varies at this point. i At one time, oddly enough, when I when i first started in industry, way, way in over my head, I started with with Porsche dealership in in in Tampa, Florida.
00:01:42
Aniz Lavji
Okay.
00:01:42
Wiktor
And...
00:01:42
Aniz Lavji
Okay.
00:01:43
Wiktor
Again, i was I was in way over my head, and i don't like I don't like German engineering, so that went very, very well, and I did not last long. But since then, it has been kind of of of everything.
00:01:55
Aniz Lavji
okay
00:01:55
Wiktor
if it If it is personal preference, it is Chevrolet, because I am glutton for punishment, and I like slipping transmission. but But that is personal.
00:02:04
Frank Wiebe
Just wait, do you live in the Rust Belt now? You're going to find out what a Chevy really is?
00:02:08
Wiktor
Yes, i am i have I have found that perhaps the first half of my career in in in in southwestern United States might have been a little bit of of babying compared to what I am seeing now.
Challenges of the Rust Belt
00:02:22
Wiktor
Tetanus shots expire. Tetanus shots expire. I don't know when, but I need to i need to double check that.
00:02:27
Frank Wiebe
ah
00:02:29
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, dealing with the rust really can become a problem.
00:02:30
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, that'll happen.
00:02:34
Aniz Lavji
I mean, you're basically heating up bolts and heating up stuff left, right and center. I mean, you got to basically have your extra acetylene tanks and oxygen just hanging off to the side because you're going going through those suckers pretty quick.
00:02:47
Wiktor
yeah yeah if there is enough material left to actually put the torch too i mean it can't be tight if it is liquid but it can't be liquid if there is if there is more rust than titanic
00:02:58
Aniz Lavji
yeah
00:02:59
Frank Wiebe
that that's like That's like half the cars that I work on. There ain't nothing left of them.
00:03:05
Wiktor
my first my first day my very first day in midwest they were like you are going to learn today and i was like okay and within 45 minutes i put up a saturn view
00:03:05
Aniz Lavji
You mean Chevy Cruze?
00:03:16
Aniz Lavji
Oh, God.
00:03:17
Frank Wiebe
Oh, no.
00:03:17
Wiktor
And the cradle did not go up with the rest of the car.
00:03:21
Frank Wiebe
ah
00:03:22
Aniz Lavji
The body was perfect because it was all plastic.
00:03:24
Wiktor
Yeah, yeah, no, from the outside it looked great, but when why is the front wheel not off the ground yet? the The back wheel is three feet off the ground.
00:03:31
Aniz Lavji
because the arm is...
00:03:34
Wiktor
What's going on?
00:03:34
Aniz Lavji
true
00:03:36
Frank Wiebe
We just had a Chevy Venture brought in. They wanted a safety check on it. It looked beautiful. like It looked like brand new.
00:03:40
Aniz Lavji
Oh, God.
00:03:42
Frank Wiebe
Boy, was it rotten underneath. Man, the guy was disappointed. But what are you to We had three in the last week that were just so rotten you can hardly even lift them up.
00:03:51
Aniz Lavji
I think I've seen one of those in probably five years, six years.
00:03:54
Frank Wiebe
Oh, I know.
00:03:55
Wiktor
I was going like to say it's been a while since I've seen Venture.
00:03:57
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, and this thing this thing looked like brand new. Like, the body took care of it, even undercoated it, but Ontario still got a better a better part of it.
00:04:07
Aniz Lavji
You can paint the turd. It's still a turd.
00:04:10
Frank Wiebe
That's pretty much it, yeah.
00:04:12
Aniz Lavji
of ge But um so at your shop, how many bays you got there, Victor?
00:04:14
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:04:19
Wiktor
We have...
00:04:21
Wiktor
Eight bays total.
00:04:23
Aniz Lavji
Eight.
00:04:23
Wiktor
Nine if you count the junk bay, but no one counts the junk bay.
00:04:26
Aniz Lavji
But the junk bays the bay that's the most fun though, right?
00:04:29
Wiktor
Well, the junk bay, every every shop has the junk bay. It's where the first alignment rack was before it went down in 1971.
00:04:36
Aniz Lavji
What?
00:04:37
Wiktor
And then they were just like, oh, we will get the new one and we will put it in this bay. And then that that rack rusted and rotted away into nothing. And then you have empty bay that just is never used.
00:04:48
Aniz Lavji
Oh yeah. Um,
00:04:49
Wiktor
Every shop I've ever worked at.
00:04:49
Frank Wiebe
I wish I had one of those bays.
00:04:51
Wiktor
There's always...
00:04:52
Frank Wiebe
I don't even got room for and for a junk bay right now.
00:04:55
Aniz Lavji
you gotta break down some walls and make some room, Frank.
00:04:58
Frank Wiebe
Man, eight bays would be nice.
00:05:01
Aniz Lavji
Hmm.
00:05:01
Frank Wiebe
How many techs are there then if there's eight bays?
00:05:04
Wiktor
There's three. There's three.
00:05:06
Frank Wiebe
Holy crap. So you each get to work on a couple of bays at a time.
00:05:07
Wiktor
Well...
00:05:11
Wiktor
Yeah, typically, if we can fill them.
00:05:14
Aniz Lavji
that's good. Uh, So you got eight
Lifestyle and Location Preferences
00:05:16
Aniz Lavji
bays. Did you always have that many bays when you started or did you grow into those or how did that happen?
00:05:23
Wiktor
Oh, well, ah let's let's let's be clear. i am I am not the one that is owning anything. i am just I am just the employee that is there. um that That shop particularly has had the the same amount of base the entire time.
00:05:36
Aniz Lavji
Okay. Okay. So how long have you been at that job?
00:05:39
Wiktor
I have been there since I moved to the Midwest. So since 2020 two years now?
00:05:44
Aniz Lavji
Okay. So you moved from, was it Florida?
00:05:49
Wiktor
i was I was in Florida. I decided I no longer like sun and beaches. I wanted to see snow and snow.
00:05:56
Aniz Lavji
Best decision you ever made, right?
00:05:58
Frank Wiebe
i
00:05:58
Wiktor
Well, I mean, the kids can can play and have Christmas time and I can slip and slide and learn how to drive all over again.
00:06:05
Aniz Lavji
Well, it's good for your knees, right? It's good for your knees.
00:06:07
Wiktor
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
00:06:11
Frank Wiebe
Oh, man, I can't imagine making that kind of a choice. But then again, i grew I was born in Mexico and moved up to Ontario. So what the heck was that all about, right?
00:06:20
Wiktor
that is ah That is an interesting jump.
00:06:22
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, right? Yeah.
00:06:24
Aniz Lavji
the um
00:06:24
Frank Wiebe
No.
00:06:26
Aniz Lavji
So in in Florida, how long were how long were you working there? Just basically since you started working on vehicles, you just jumped in a shop from there?
00:06:35
Wiktor
Pretty much. Pretty much. I went out of high school. I went to technical school. and went Went from there, I went back home and and started hopping into the shops and and and kind of learned rather quickly that i I might have learned more if I would have just gone straight to the shops instead of going to the technical school.
00:06:55
Wiktor
but
00:06:56
Aniz Lavji
you know,
00:06:56
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, that seems to be the consensus to a lot of places, yeah.
00:06:59
Aniz Lavji
but you know i
00:06:59
Wiktor
you you You get into a good place with a good mentor, you can learn a lot more than maybe a teacher that is that is in front of a whiteboard.
00:07:07
Aniz Lavji
But, you know, it looks like you took the, the I guess you could say the proper channels, which ah you went you went through the technical school and went into a shop from there, which, so, i mean, you took the proper way, I guess you could say, where instead of just jumping in a shop and learning as you go, you know, you got some good formal training. And I'm sure some things yeah you learn from there, i mean, they may not be handy all the time, but you I'm sure you think back sometimes, okay, yeah, that makes sense. I remember that part.
00:07:38
Wiktor
If anything, it gives you, well, you can't be in a classroom environment and throw your wrench across the across the hall. So you have to, you you get creative with with letting your anger out.
00:07:45
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:07:49
Aniz Lavji
but
00:07:50
Frank Wiebe
and There's not too much anger in a classroom, though, but you get started working on a BMW or a Volkswagen or something like that, they'll learn a few words that ah that wasn't in your vocabulary before.
00:08:01
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:08:02
Wiktor
as As someone who has owned a few Volkswagens, if you are not learning new words, you will invent some.
00:08:09
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:08:09
Wiktor
And they will still be classified as profane.
00:08:12
Aniz Lavji
And every ah word, the definition is basically leak.
00:08:18
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, well, I mean, that's if it's to BMW, man, those things leak like a son of a gun.
00:08:23
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, as soon as they come out of the factory, basically.
00:08:25
Frank Wiebe
Pretty much. that's like That's like owning a Harley, right? It ain't leaking.
00:08:29
Aniz Lavji
They're a lot of fun to drive when they're all fixed and working and all sealed up. Like they're a blast to drive. But man, when that thing starts leaking oil or gets close to being out of warranty...
00:08:41
Wiktor
Every piece of plastic will break on it.
00:08:41
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:08:45
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah.
00:08:45
Wiktor
and and And it's not even... like look like if you get the old Chevy that has the heater hoses with the plastic, those are going to break if you were a little too rough with them.
00:08:58
Frank Wiebe
Yep, every time.
00:08:59
Wiktor
The Volkswagens, they won excessively too much plastic with cooling system. But those will break if you look at them too aggressively.
00:09:10
Aniz Lavji
yeah
00:09:10
Wiktor
if If you breathe on them, if you smell them, they they will break. And that is...
00:09:16
Frank Wiebe
That's kind of like those Chevy Cruisers that I like so much. They got leaks all over the place.
00:09:19
Aniz Lavji
oh
00:09:20
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:09:20
Wiktor
Listen, listen, those things are up top quality.
00:09:21
Aniz Lavji
Oh man, God, Frank and your Chevy Cruises.
00:09:26
Wiktor
3.1 pounds of boost.
00:09:28
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:09:28
Aniz Lavji
3.1 pounds of crap is what that
00:09:29
Wiktor
and
00:09:30
Frank Wiebe
Great. They're great. I work like like you do on campus.
00:09:32
Wiktor
The waste is larger than the turbocharger.
00:09:35
Aniz Lavji
thing That reminds me when you were just talking about, you know, you look at the hose, it'll break. um Frank, remember, was it, I think I told you three weeks or four weeks ago, i was working on that BMW. We were finishing up the water pump.
00:09:47
Frank Wiebe
Yep.
00:09:48
Aniz Lavji
And, right at the end, I mean, I think it was four o'clock and the customer was coming in trying to pick up the car, you know, by five, five 30 and everything was done. We're putting the last little tiny hose that goes to the, I'm not a mechanic, but goes to the overflow bottle.
00:10:03
Aniz Lavji
He's connecting it. And then it just fell apart in his hand.
00:10:07
Wiktor
It's integrated in your hands.
00:10:08
Aniz Lavji
And my mechanics like, uh, you're going to want to come down here. I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. You said the car would be done. You shortly, what's going on?
00:10:19
Aniz Lavji
i go back there and it's this thing. Like what the hell happened? He's like, just, it just fell apart.
00:10:22
Frank Wiebe
Corno coolant. Yep.
00:10:27
Frank Wiebe
Well, it's like that Lexus I was working on.
00:10:27
Aniz Lavji
So,
00:10:30
Frank Wiebe
made that TikTok video about it where the ah overflow coolant was just disintegrated. And that's where I ended up the just rigging it.
00:10:37
Wiktor
The one that was integrated into the into the fan assembly.
00:10:40
Frank Wiebe
That was stupid. Yeah. Yeah.
Frustrations with Car Designs
00:10:43
Frank Wiebe
So.
00:10:43
Wiktor
Yeah, that's It
00:10:43
Aniz Lavji
Those are the only type of vehicles like you get random stuff like that. It'll drive you up the wall.
00:10:50
Wiktor
it it
00:10:50
Frank Wiebe
Mm-hmm.
00:10:50
Wiktor
it makes you wonder, like, not only like how it was approved, but just why it was designed in general. You can't, like... It's like, hey, we have built this external tank for the last 87 years, and it has worked perfectly.
00:11:07
Wiktor
Let's stop doing that and make it more complicated because I like more points of failure.
00:11:14
Frank Wiebe
Exactly.
00:11:14
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:11:15
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's actually at a less points of failure because now if one part fails, the whole part fails.
00:11:17
Aniz Lavji
The serious manual can be bigger.
00:11:22
Frank Wiebe
So it's less parts failing, but it's just one bigger part failing.
00:11:26
Wiktor
Bigger, more expensive, unnecessary.
00:11:30
Frank Wiebe
Mm-hmm.
00:11:30
Wiktor
Like, why the hell do I have to replace my fan because the plastic tank that holds cool...
00:11:35
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. Now, now instead of a $50 tank, you've got $700, $800. Yeah, exactly.
00:11:39
Wiktor
$475 one, yeah.
00:11:41
Frank Wiebe
yeah exactly
00:11:42
Aniz Lavji
I always tell my customers, like, they're like, oh, you know, i like driving these and I want luxury. I'm like, you know, if you want a luxury and reliability, just buy a Lexus. like it's It's a Toyota with a bow tie on it
00:11:54
Frank Wiebe
It really is, yep.
00:11:54
Aniz Lavji
Just drive it, be happy.
00:11:55
Frank Wiebe
Bowtie.
00:11:56
Aniz Lavji
And it's it's big for you, bad for me because it's not going to break.
00:11:57
Frank Wiebe
won't say bowtie. I'm
00:11:59
Aniz Lavji
But that's that's a nice car.
00:12:03
Wiktor
Just get the Chevrolet Silverado and be happy with it. this that There's all the luxury you need.
00:12:09
Aniz Lavji
The Rocker Panos included or no?
00:12:11
Wiktor
Growing power and the best thing is if you have a 4L60 you might have a couple of extra neutrals at any given time.
00:12:17
Frank Wiebe
was going to say, if you like putting transmissions in and camshafts in, then you should definitely go buy Chevy.
00:12:23
Wiktor
Maybe I do. 2004...
00:12:26
Frank Wiebe
I bet you do at this point. No, but I think your Chevy's a little bit older than what those ones are. So you're still you're still in the ah heartbeat of America Chevy era, I think it was.
00:12:37
Wiktor
two thousand four think i I think it was still like a rock.
00:12:44
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, yeah, that's the one, yeah.
00:12:45
Wiktor
I think it was like rock.
00:12:47
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:12:48
Aniz Lavji
Do
00:12:48
Wiktor
It is if this as heavy as one.
00:12:51
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:12:52
Aniz Lavji
ah do you guys do a lot of tires out in your area with me?
00:12:56
Wiktor
um Not so much anymore. um but Let me rephrase. I am not doing so much tires anymore where I am where i am now. Where I was in Florida, it it was tires all the all the time
00:13:08
Frank Wiebe
because it melted away, so you had to put new ones on.
00:13:10
Wiktor
yeah it is It is definitely hot there. That is that is for sure.
00:13:14
Aniz Lavji
But why not in Indiana?
00:13:16
Wiktor
ah different Different shop. it's not the it's People are going other places for the tires, I guess.
00:13:22
Aniz Lavji
Do people come in with no tires on or what?
00:13:24
Wiktor
I mean, they have they have tires. They're just... they're just they're they're you know but the The box companies, the Costco's, they there's such a little profit the margin in tires nowadays anyway that it is that is hard for for smaller mom-and-pop shops to compete.
00:13:39
Aniz Lavji
but Do you, um, do you get cars that come in that need tires?
00:13:44
Wiktor
Every so often.
00:13:45
Aniz Lavji
Then they may need an alignment, right?
00:13:47
Wiktor
Oh, absolutely.
00:13:48
Aniz Lavji
Then they may need tire rods and control arms and ball joints, right?
00:13:52
Wiktor
Oh, also absolutely.
00:13:54
Aniz Lavji
And then when they're done with that, they're probably to something else.
00:13:55
Frank Wiebe
Oh.
00:13:58
Aniz Lavji
now Now that you got the wheels off, now they need brakes, now they need this.
00:14:02
Wiktor
Oh, for sure. For sure.
00:14:03
Aniz Lavji
Victor, you got your tires, man. yeah
00:14:08
Wiktor
Yeah, not and not to my not the my call, not to my business decision. and I have the capabilities of doing them. It's just not the this's not the bread and butter that we are we are finding.
00:14:13
Aniz Lavji
Yeah. don't know, for sure. It's, you know, honestly, like, obviously I have a tire shop, so I'm always partial to that, but it It brings in a a lot of extra revenue.
00:14:26
Aniz Lavji
and And sometimes you might get people coming in that I've had customers come in that have a nail on their tire and they leave with four new tires and alignment and, you know, front door control arms.
00:14:27
Wiktor
Oh, I would not.
00:14:37
Frank Wiebe
so he's He's always preaching to me I should get an alignment rack. I'm like, I'm just i'm not going to get an alignment rack because there's an alignment.
00:14:44
Aniz Lavji
I love alignments, man.
00:14:46
Frank Wiebe
I know.
00:14:46
Aniz Lavji
My alignment racks running all day long.
00:14:49
Wiktor
Alignment's going be fun and very profitable. That is fair. That is fair.
00:14:52
Frank Wiebe
yeah It can be fun and profitable if you have the room for it. I don't have the space for it, so I send them down the road for the, I don't know, maybe five I do a month, three to five maybe a month.
00:15:03
Aniz Lavji
Shit, I did four today.
00:15:03
Wiktor
atmosphere
00:15:04
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, I suppose, like, if I had a rack, I would do more, obviously, but, yeah. But I do tires.
00:15:09
Aniz Lavji
like
00:15:11
Frank Wiebe
I sell lot of tires.
00:15:12
Aniz Lavji
i could have done eight alignments today. didn't have time.
00:15:16
Frank Wiebe
Well, what you doing?
00:15:16
Wiktor
It was all time. You sleep and you're dead.
00:15:19
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:15:20
Aniz Lavji
The what?
00:15:20
Frank Wiebe
Stop.
00:15:20
Wiktor
certainly Said the guy that left on time.
00:15:20
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, it's...
00:15:26
Frank Wiebe
is
00:15:27
Aniz Lavji
No, but that's good. I mean, it if you don't if you don't have that major service and you're able to, you know, if you're busy enough with other things, I mean, that's great as well, right?
00:15:39
Aniz Lavji
But it's it's a good compliment to have it.
00:15:39
Wiktor
Oh, absolutely. For sure. for sure.
00:15:42
Aniz Lavji
But I mean, if you don't necessarily need it and, again, at the margins and stuff with all the big box stores, I can completely relate to that. I know i know you're talking about.
00:15:50
Wiktor
Yeah, you're trying to compete with the Bell Tires, the Tire Kingdoms, the Mavises, the you know, it's it's just...
00:15:57
Frank Wiebe
Nah, everyone's got their thing. I always say if you stay in your lane and do what you do best, that's where you're going to be profitable.
00:16:04
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:16:05
Frank Wiebe
right The guest we had on last week, she loves working on freaking diesels. And I'm like, and I hate working on diesels. So I will send a diesel to somebody else in a real quick heartbeat as long as I don't got to touch it.
00:16:17
Wiktor
Yeah, there's I know that diesels have have pistons in them, and I know that they don't take gasoline.
00:16:17
Frank Wiebe
Right?
00:16:23
Wiktor
That is about the extent that i my knowledge of diesels.
00:16:26
Frank Wiebe
There we go. Yep, we're on the same page with that for sure.
00:16:29
Wiktor
They have all the torque in the world, and if I need to pull a building down, I will go get one. But other than that...
00:16:35
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, I don't really touch them. Like we had a and diesel Mercedes GLK come in for tires and that's fine. But I ain't doing anything on those.
00:16:47
Aniz Lavji
i've I've already gone through my time with having diesels and, you know, the DEF or I guess plug.
00:16:54
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah.
00:16:55
Aniz Lavji
gun Yeah, no, I'm not dealing with that ever again. Nope.
00:16:58
Frank Wiebe
No, everything.
00:16:58
Wiktor
Exactly. that this
00:17:00
Frank Wiebe
That can just be a pain no matter which way look at it.
00:17:04
Aniz Lavji
I got pictures, Frank, of dad's GL350. We started taking the engine apart, trying to fix it. It got to the point where it was blocking a hoist for like two months.
00:17:16
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah.
00:17:17
Aniz Lavji
Ended up selling it to a customer and he came back two weeks later driving it because he knew exactly what to do. And I'm that's great.
00:17:24
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, yeah. That's the way. When something like that gives you problems, you just sell it to somebody that knows how to fix it. That's why I buy all the Chevy Cruises, because I know how to fix them. You have have your specialty, right?
00:17:36
Aniz Lavji
Oh, man. What a nightmare.
00:17:40
Frank Wiebe
That's my specialty.
00:17:41
Wiktor
a love-hate relationship I'm sensing.
00:17:42
Aniz Lavji
That's true. I mean, it it that used to be one of the cars we sold all the time, but once we started buying them from the auction, every single one needed a turbo. I'm like, you know what? This is not really profitable anymore.
00:17:52
Frank Wiebe
No, no.
00:17:53
Wiktor
that That seems legit. That seems legit. Every single one of them needed a turbo.
00:17:58
Aniz Lavji
All of them.
00:18:01
Aniz Lavji
And then, you know.
00:18:01
Frank Wiebe
so what your What do you do in your spare time when you're not fixing Chevys and making videos?
00:18:08
Wiktor
Making goofball videos for the internet. I mean, at this point, I am just a boring old 40-year-old man. I sit at home with my kids. I play some some games with them. I let them beat up on me. And that is that is pretty much it.
00:18:21
Frank Wiebe
That was good. That's
00:18:22
Aniz Lavji
So you're you're basically a dad.
00:18:24
Wiktor
then yeah Yeah, I mean, then again, it is springtime. I am trying to find all of the the the local racetracks and attend as many of those races as I can. I am i am finding a a a rekindled love for the for the sports of of racing now.
00:18:37
Aniz Lavji
Nice. Have you...
00:18:39
Frank Wiebe
you hope Have you raced yourself or you just love watching it?
00:18:43
Wiktor
I like watching it a lot more than it is expensive. I mean, when I didn't have children and I had the disposable income, yeah, absolutely. But now it is just, it is not a, ah you know, the the best way to become a millionaire racing is is to start out the billionaire.
00:19:00
Frank Wiebe
Yes.
00:19:01
Wiktor
I am neither of those things.
00:19:01
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, that that would help, yeah.
00:19:03
Wiktor
So, so yeah, it is, i will i will I will stick to the watching for now.
00:19:10
Aniz Lavji
Have you gone to any of these expos or any of these training expos that are going on all over the US?
Training and Networking Benefits
00:19:19
Wiktor
No, no, can't say that I have.
00:19:21
Aniz Lavji
Have you heard about them at all or?
00:19:22
Wiktor
I've seen clips here and there on on social media, but other than that, not not really.
00:19:28
Aniz Lavji
like ah Vision and there's ah there's tools coming up. Actually, Frank's going to tools in few weeks, actually, three weeks.
00:19:33
Wiktor
Really?
00:19:34
Frank Wiebe
That's in a couple of weeks, yeah, in Pennsylvania. Yeah, we'll be there.
00:19:38
Wiktor
All right.
00:19:40
Aniz Lavji
I mean, if it's something you've never mentioned.
00:19:40
Frank Wiebe
know donor reason The only reason we get to go is I told Margarita that it was at the ah ah Hershey factory, and so then she agreed to go.
00:19:51
Wiktor
There you go.
00:19:52
Frank Wiebe
it is right now. don't get to go see the Hershey factory. Yes, get to see Hershey factory.
00:19:57
Aniz Lavji
Okay.
00:19:57
Frank Wiebe
We get to go see the chocolate factory. A little bit. Not as much as we'd hoped, but anyways, we'll we'll get
00:20:02
Aniz Lavji
But yeah, these these big training expos, Victor, I mean not only ah not only are you going to actually get training on some things you may not even think you need it, but it's it's pretty interesting, man.
00:20:15
Aniz Lavji
I've been to a couple so far.
00:20:15
Wiktor
Really?
00:20:17
Aniz Lavji
I went to last year i went to North Carolina to ASTA, which was amazing. i was a game changer for me. And then was it three or, i don't know how many weeks ago now, four weeks ago I was in Kansas City at Vision, which was great.
00:20:24
Wiktor
Okay.
00:20:32
Aniz Lavji
Excellent, excellent training there.
00:20:32
Wiktor
All right.
00:20:34
Aniz Lavji
And the networking you make, Frank, you're going experience it for sure. But the networking that you get to experience after class is second to none.
00:20:44
Aniz Lavji
I mean, you meet so many people and get so many ideas. And it's...
00:20:48
Wiktor
Awesome. And what what what the what what is the stuff that the classes are going over?
00:20:49
Frank Wiebe
Uh,
00:20:53
Wiktor
Is it just modern modern things going coming out or what what is it exactly?
00:20:58
Aniz Lavji
it It varies. Like there's, you know, like I think Frank, you were saying there's management courses at tools and there's ah technical training. i mean, there's service advisor training.
00:21:09
Aniz Lavji
i think Coralie is going to be there. She's a really good trainer.
00:21:13
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, Marguerite has actually taken her class.
00:21:14
Aniz Lavji
mean
00:21:15
Frank Wiebe
And then yeah there's yeah a lot of technical training.
00:21:16
Aniz Lavji
Oh, good.
00:21:18
Frank Wiebe
on Like the one I'm taking is like an advanced canvas diagnostic or something like that. um i think I think they actually emailed me because I had only signed up for half the course.
00:21:25
Aniz Lavji
Yep.
00:21:25
Wiktor
Okay.
00:21:29
Frank Wiebe
And then they said, no, you really need to do this other one as well. So they switched my art itinerary around so that I'm on doing two courses.
00:21:33
Aniz Lavji
Thank you.
00:21:37
Frank Wiebe
I think it was Canvas or something like that, regardless. But yeah, um some of the training that's that's around here, like some of the local training that CarQuest does and stuff like that, it's usually just on some of the new technology that's coming out, like the new type of VVT systems or a new type of turbo systems like that. am i That's kind of boring stuff because i don't work on anything new enough to make it worth it.
00:22:00
Frank Wiebe
And one by the time it comes out, then everyone else has already figured it out. and
00:22:04
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:22:04
Wiktor
Yeah, you got a couple of, i that's that's how I used to view those.
00:22:06
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:22:08
Wiktor
It's funny, I used to view it as, man, you know, yeah I'm not going to be working on this stuff right now, but, you know, I remember showing my age a little bit now that I think about it, but I can remember like 2010, 2011 being sent to a couple of different couple of different trainings on on on variable valve timing systems that I would not have, I'm like, I'm not going to be working on brand new Volkswagens right now.
00:22:31
Wiktor
I don't need to, but maybe perhaps down the line, i will, I will, I can store it in the memory banks and it will be, it it will be at my disposal. And then I have found by the time that some of that work has trickled to me that perhaps some of the others that got to cut their teeth may have learned a few better tricks than what I have learned in some of those classes.
00:22:41
Aniz Lavji
A
00:22:54
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, exactly. That's playing those.
00:22:55
Aniz Lavji
lot of it is sometimes you may think that it's not important, you know, even when you're in these classes and you're you're learning some items there and it may be something that doesn't seem like it's going to apply to anything you're doing. But then the one time you get that one car in and you're like, holy crap, this all makes sense now.
00:23:13
Wiktor
Yeah, that is that is fair. Then again, where I was in Florida...
00:23:15
Aniz Lavji
And if a customer comes in and and asks you something about a topic that you may have heard, I mean, you knowing the answer to that or being able to relate to it, you know, if it's new technology or something that's just up and coming, I mean, that right there, you may gain a customer just by knowing one little thing.
00:23:35
Wiktor
Fair, fair. A lot of times they try to keep me as far away from the customers as possible.
00:23:42
Wiktor
Then again, where I was, it was more a lot of, of oh, hey, i didn't I didn't hit anything and my control arm is bent like an elbow, so...
00:23:50
Aniz Lavji
I'm sure you didn't hit anything out.
00:23:51
Wiktor
Yeah, exactly. But I can change a control arm and an Impala and a Caliber in four seconds flat.
00:24:00
Aniz Lavji
Well, at that point, you probably don't have to change it. It probably just falls out by just tugging on it.
00:24:06
Frank Wiebe
That's how I felt about this Jeep that I did the other day, control arms on it. I thought, yeah, you know, that's going to take me like an hour to do both control arms. Oh, no. I'd take the whole freaking bumper off, do the control arms.
00:24:17
Aniz Lavji
God.
00:24:18
Frank Wiebe
Oh, no. Yeah, you would think a bumper to do. No, it was stupid. What a stupid. It was 16 or 18 or something like that.
00:24:24
Wiktor
Explain.
00:24:26
Frank Wiebe
Jeep Cherokee or something like that.
00:24:27
Wiktor
What
00:24:28
Frank Wiebe
Oh, man. what a What a stupid setup that was.
00:24:33
Aniz Lavji
just like the Highlanders. You go ah with group get to remove, I think, again, not attack, but with the Highlanders and the fours you get to remove some of the engine mounts.
00:24:34
Frank Wiebe
Not whining, woman.
00:24:44
Wiktor
is it? Oh, shit, shit, shit. Is it the Avalon? If you look up the labor in Mitchell, you actually have engine removal or without engine removal to do the control arms because of what two engine mounts and three bolts.
00:24:56
Frank Wiebe
Yep.
00:24:58
Aniz Lavji
And the third option is sell it.
00:25:03
Aniz Lavji
If I ever went into shop and they told me i got to remove the engine to control arms, I'm like you know what? I'm done. can trade it
00:25:09
Frank Wiebe
Yep. We talked about BMW and stuff before. ah Half of those and Audi is probably the worst. You're going to do anything on an engine. You're just going to pull the whole engine out and then separate it and and do the work on it. Like,
00:25:23
Aniz Lavji
Okay.
00:25:23
Wiktor
but Don't.
00:25:24
Frank Wiebe
So most vehicles are designed now to drop the whole cradle, pull the engine apart that way, or like the trucks are designed, pull the cab off and do the work on it that way.
00:25:36
Frank Wiebe
Okay.
00:25:36
Aniz Lavji
I miss the 98 Honda Civics where we can drop the transmission in about an hour and a half and, you know, have another one bolted on another, you know, in three hours you can swap the whole tranny out and you're on the road again.
00:25:49
Wiktor
Yeah, but if we're talking about a 98 Honda Civic, you can pull the transmission out in 45 minutes and put the one in that's from an Integra of the same year and bolt that in with a Dell sole head. Everything will work. It's...
00:26:00
Aniz Lavji
Again, not a mechanic, so I'm throwing numbers out in my head.
00:26:02
Wiktor
Yeah, no, I'm just like, everything was interchangeable back then. It was fantastic. Now, not not now it's...
00:26:08
Frank Wiebe
Nothing's interchangeable.
00:26:08
Aniz Lavji
a I remember working on Mazda Pro J5s. I used to sell those things like hotcakes.
00:26:15
Frank Wiebe
yeah.
00:26:17
Aniz Lavji
Those I probably had at one point eight of them.
00:26:19
Frank Wiebe
I haven't seen one those in forever.
00:26:21
Aniz Lavji
Oh, yeah.
00:26:21
Wiktor
And all of them...
00:26:23
Aniz Lavji
We used to change the snorkel tubes off the or is it off the intake. I used to stock them. That's how many we used to go through.
00:26:31
Frank Wiebe
Oh, because they're always rotted and ripped and then they wouldn't run.
00:26:34
Aniz Lavji
yeah. I always had five or six of them in stock.
00:26:39
Frank Wiebe
That's like me and cruise parts. I got cruise parts in stock.
00:26:42
Aniz Lavji
Forget cruise parts. You've got cruises in stock, man. You've got the damn cars parked outside.
00:26:44
Wiktor
say
00:26:46
Frank Wiebe
I only got, I don't know.
00:26:49
Aniz Lavji
i think Chevy will probably start calling you for parts.
00:26:49
Wiktor
and all of them
00:26:50
Frank Wiebe
I only got four right now.
00:26:51
Wiktor
And and thrt three of the turbos are leaking cool and two of them are leaking well.
00:26:55
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, that's right. Yep. but
00:26:59
Aniz Lavji
You've got a whole museum of of cruises outside. They're going to be sent to the Smithsonian pretty soon.
00:27:05
Frank Wiebe
yep got to have your specialty. I'm telling
00:27:09
Aniz Lavji
You got it. is is there is there a particular vehicle that you will not service at your shop, Victor?
00:27:11
Wiktor
fair.
00:27:14
Frank Wiebe
you.
00:27:19
Wiktor
Um... Off the top of my head, no.
00:27:23
Aniz Lavji
Other than Lamborghinis, I mean, yeah, we
00:27:25
Wiktor
Well, yeah, I mean, obviously, I mean, i'm not I'm not particularly keen on trying to lift any Aston Martins or anything like that.
00:27:31
Aniz Lavji
All right.
00:27:31
Wiktor
I mean, I generally have a rule if if the car costs more than my home, I would prefer not to work on it.
00:27:39
Frank Wiebe
yeah
00:27:39
Wiktor
But at the same time, I mean, they're all nuts and bolts. It's just, you know, I have i have ones that I would prefer to avoid.
00:27:42
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:27:47
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:27:48
Wiktor
you know particularly the 2005.5 to 2009 Volkswagen GTI. Not because I owned one or anything like that, but I would particularly prefer to avoid any of the the early Volkswagen FSI engines.
00:28:02
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:28:02
Frank Wiebe
Oh, come on. They were great to work on, those things. i did
00:28:06
Wiktor
You have a timing belt and a timing chain.
00:28:08
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, I did a timing chain on the people.
00:28:09
Wiktor
You a timing belt and a timing chain.
00:28:12
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, why know sounds Sounds like the new Fords.
00:28:16
Wiktor
yeah yeah Yes, but you... Give me one, give me the other. Don't give me both. And and if you do, you can you can piss off.
00:28:26
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:28:27
Aniz Lavji
I agree with you on the, on the point of when these cars are so expensive and you're lifting and you're kind of, you know, looking like crap, I better be really careful of this thing.
00:28:37
Wiktor
I can tell you where I where i was in Florida.
00:28:37
Aniz Lavji
That,
00:28:39
Wiktor
They had they were they would not... you you We pretty much were banned from working on Teslas. But that is because someone tried to change a tire or do a tire rotation or a flat repair on one at one of the other stores and lifted it improperly and made a $65,000 paperweight.
00:28:56
Wiktor
But other than that, not really.
00:28:59
Aniz Lavji
he I work on Teslas every day.
00:29:03
Wiktor
Yeah, i i personally, I didn't understand the big deals. You get the hockey pucks, you put them up there. they they They have the nubs. You put them in the hole, it works fine.
00:29:10
Aniz Lavji
It's pretty simple, but some people just don't want to touch them at all.
00:29:10
Wiktor
But,
00:29:13
Wiktor
yeah, they were terrified.
00:29:15
Aniz Lavji
the I think the most expensive car we've worked on is a Lucid Air.
00:29:21
Frank Wiebe
Now, I had no idea either what it was.
00:29:23
Wiktor
What is that?
00:29:24
Aniz Lavji
It's as electric car. The company's name is Lucid.
00:29:30
Wiktor
Okay.
00:29:30
Aniz Lavji
ah um like The one that we worked on, I think I looked it up. It was like $168,000.
00:29:37
Aniz Lavji
And I'm telling you, we spent about 20 minutes setting up the hoist before we actually...
00:29:37
Wiktor
Yeah,
00:29:45
Wiktor
yeah.
00:29:45
Aniz Lavji
but You know, it's it was it's a bit nerve-wracking.
00:29:45
Wiktor
yeah
00:29:49
Aniz Lavji
Like, the guy came in for a winter tire and rim package last season, and we actually just did the car again this season, swapping them back on, which was you know much easier because we already knew kind of what we were
Working on High-End Vehicles
00:30:00
Aniz Lavji
going to do with it.
00:30:00
Aniz Lavji
But there's no so you're not going to get service information on something like that, on or lift points and stuff like that.
00:30:04
Wiktor
No, ah kill it
00:30:06
Aniz Lavji
so I mean, that was a bit nerve-wracking.
00:30:08
Wiktor
it can be stressful. stuff I mean, at least fortunately with the Tesla Z, I mean, there's there's enough information out there. But I mean, if someone came to me and said, hey, I have this lucid air, I would be like, that's weird.
00:30:15
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:30:19
Wiktor
You should see a doctor because that's probably bad for your breathing. yeah yes Why are you calling me?
00:30:25
Frank Wiebe
You had too many of Frank's beans if you had lucid air.
00:30:28
Wiktor
Yeah.
00:30:29
Aniz Lavji
yeah You got lucid air. Is that the next COVID? like What is that?
00:30:33
Wiktor
Lucid air, I mean, is that the... did is I don't do drugs.
00:30:37
Aniz Lavji
oh
00:30:37
Wiktor
Don't get out of here with that.
00:30:39
Frank Wiebe
ah
00:30:40
Aniz Lavji
Oh, God. That's going to be a great clip if I can just get that one line. you You got the lucid air. but You know what? just You got to go. Go.
00:30:49
Wiktor
Yeah, i don't I don't have a mask right now. I don't i don't want to have any part of that.
00:30:52
Aniz Lavji
Oh, God.
00:30:55
Frank Wiebe
but
00:30:55
Wiktor
yeah Probably won't even go with my e coli.
00:30:58
Frank Wiebe
yeah you ah
00:31:02
Aniz Lavji
Oh, You should take a look.
00:31:02
Wiktor
When do the tetanus shots expire?
00:31:05
Frank Wiebe
yeah Yeah, right. Oh, man.
00:31:08
Wiktor
Hold on. You what? Actually, I forgot. that We have technology here. I am going to find out what this lucid air is. Hold on.
00:31:16
Frank Wiebe
I had to do the same thing. I'd never seen one before.
00:31:19
Aniz Lavji
This was a grand air as well.
00:31:21
Frank Wiebe
ah grand air the most expensive vehicles i work on is like f-250s brand new f-250s come in for oil changes and i'm like the corvette but that thing wasn't expensive that was just an old corvette oh we did that one last week yeah
00:31:34
Wiktor
So that looks like something you would see in like Nantaph Oval or something. Like, okay, it is
00:31:37
Aniz Lavji
nothing the car's interior is actually phenomenal. Like it's, it's beautiful inside.
00:31:44
Wiktor
See, I can't get behind cars like that, though. i am I am a dirty man. i get into I get into the rain. I get into the mud. i'm not I'm not trying to get into a vehicle that looks beautiful all the time because i will its won't look beautiful all the time.
00:31:56
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:32:00
Frank Wiebe
That's why you drive the old Chevy, because, you know, who cares? Mm-hmm.
00:32:03
Wiktor
That's one of the reasons why I don't want the new one.
00:32:08
Aniz Lavji
You know, those, what's was the other one that looks kind of funny? Oh, actually, you know what car i will never work on because I just can't stand looking at it is a Pontiac Aztec.
00:32:19
Frank Wiebe
I don't even think there's any of those around anymore. I think they all rotted away.
00:32:23
Aniz Lavji
I never thought there were any Chevy Ventures left until you mentioned it, Frank.
00:32:23
Frank Wiebe
They always...
00:32:27
Aniz Lavji
So, I mean, nothing surprising anymore.
00:32:27
Wiktor
That is fair.
00:32:29
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, the shell, the shell's still sitting because it's all plastic, but the rock bottom just rotted inside of it. and So if you go to the junkyard, you just see them sitting there.
00:32:35
Aniz Lavji
man.
00:32:37
Frank Wiebe
They look perfect. But you could lift it up by hand because it's just plastic left on it.
00:32:43
Aniz Lavji
Oh, man.
00:32:44
Wiktor
My mother said never to say anything if you don't have anything nice to say. So I'm like trying to think of what nice to say about the pie. It was great in the in the in the Breaking Bad show. It was... was
00:32:54
Frank Wiebe
Yes, yes. And they made great tents, apparently, for those things. So you could go camping with it.
00:33:00
Aniz Lavji
They were great when they stopped existing.
00:33:00
Frank Wiebe
that was
00:33:02
Aniz Lavji
I mean, that's it's all I can say about those cars.
00:33:07
Frank Wiebe
In reality, what was the difference between that and ah and a upon Montana van other than the stupid shell, right? It was the same.
00:33:13
Aniz Lavji
it's it's like the front of the car.
00:33:14
Wiktor
at that point. What was the difference between that and the Saturn game
00:33:16
Aniz Lavji
They made the front of the car and then they got to the back and like, eh, I'm bored.
00:33:20
Frank Wiebe
I forget it.
00:33:21
Wiktor
The guy that designed it was was looking at stealth fighters and peyote and then he had some loose the air.
00:33:26
Frank Wiebe
He had some lucid air.
00:33:29
Wiktor
you know There we are. There we are.
00:33:31
Aniz Lavji
Oh, geez.
00:33:36
Wiktor
PT Cruisers.
00:33:38
Frank Wiebe
Pete the Cruiser?
00:33:39
Wiktor
um well i won't I won't work on those anymore unless I am forced at gunpoint.
00:33:42
Aniz Lavji
PT loser.
00:33:44
Frank Wiebe
Man, they got no room under the under the hood whatsoever. Chevy H.E.
00:33:48
Wiktor
No, do you see these hands? Do you see these hands? They're not built.
00:33:53
Aniz Lavji
I sold a number of those PT cruises way back in the day. Was it the 2.4 liter? I think those.
00:33:59
Wiktor
so you were So you contributed to the Scorch.
00:34:02
Aniz Lavji
I did. Yeah, I did. I made money on them too. It was great.
00:34:04
Wiktor
God damn it.
00:34:05
Frank Wiebe
Horrible. HHR, same thing.
00:34:09
Aniz Lavji
Sorry.
00:34:09
Frank Wiebe
Say the HHR, Chevy HHR, the one that my daughter drives.
00:34:12
Aniz Lavji
Oh, God, Frank, don't bring up that car.
00:34:13
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:34:15
Aniz Lavji
o
00:34:16
Frank Wiebe
I bought a parts car now for the, for yeah, for but it's just for the demolition and derby.
00:34:18
Aniz Lavji
Is it an HHR? Oh.
00:34:22
Frank Wiebe
It's got nice wheels it, you're going to take them off and then you're going to throw it through the derby.
00:34:26
Wiktor
Now, that could be, I could see an HHR being a lot of fun at a demo derby or a dirt track.
00:34:30
Frank Wiebe
And it's a five-speed manual.
00:34:33
Wiktor
Really? i didn't know they made those into five-speeds.
00:34:34
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When I went to pick it up from the from the from the lot where it was parked, the rear wheels were seized up and there was a cop sitting right out the road waiting for you know people to drive by and get them.
00:34:46
Aniz Lavji
Yes.
00:34:51
Frank Wiebe
And I'm like, earn back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Margarita's like, the brakes are seized. I'm like, I know. That's what I'm going back and forth. Back and forth. Finally, they break loose. And I just kind of rope around the parking lot. And then ah I'm on my way out the parking lot. And rolled my window down. look at him. I said, I wasn't sure that was going to come loose. And he says, yeah, it looks like your parking brake's a little bit seized up.
00:35:13
Frank Wiebe
I said, I think we're good now. And I take off. I'm like, With the service plate on the back, I'm like, yeah, well, he's okay with me, I guess.
00:35:22
Aniz Lavji
It would have been nicer if you would have said, hopefully you have mechanic that can fix that.
00:35:27
Frank Wiebe
so I don't know of any about it who can fix that.
00:35:32
Aniz Lavji
geez.
00:35:35
Aniz Lavji
Victor, hopefully ah this year, you know, see you at one of these events coming up, man. i think I think you'd love it, really.
00:35:43
Wiktor
Well, I mean, shoot me the information. i
00:35:47
Aniz Lavji
frank Frank's going to tools. You should go to tools if you can make it. I can, but it's gonna be amazing.
00:35:50
Frank Wiebe
we
00:35:53
Wiktor
I mean...
00:35:54
Frank Wiebe
It's chocolate. It's chocolate world. So
00:35:57
Wiktor
it's I've been to Pennsylvania once. i will I will try to refrain from going back.
00:36:03
Frank Wiebe
but but convince your wife that.
00:36:05
Wiktor
Which part of Pennsylvania...
00:36:07
Aniz Lavji
her Hershey, Pennsylvania, right, Frank?
00:36:09
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. actually Pennsylvania. So that's.
00:36:11
Wiktor
Not that close to Eagles fans, is it?
00:36:11
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:36:12
Wiktor
I don't know. I'll have to do cause some Google searching.
00:36:15
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:36:15
Aniz Lavji
Frank, give me the info. I think there's still some room. ah I think the hotel block that they have is done, but I i think the rooms are pretty reasonable.
00:36:26
Aniz Lavji
But you know what?
00:36:27
Frank Wiebe
Yeah, they weren't bad.
00:36:28
Aniz Lavji
it's it's It's something. It's an experience. And once you go to one of them, you'll be hooked, man.
00:36:34
Frank Wiebe
I don't mind.
00:36:35
Wiktor
os I'll just room with Frank.
00:36:37
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah. well Well, yeah, I guess, you know.
00:36:41
Frank Wiebe
i can We did get a double bed. No, that's it. There's two double beds. yeah we you can Yeah, you can go in the other bed. But no lucid air, she says.
00:36:49
Wiktor
No, see, you know what? No, no. All right.
00:36:52
Frank Wiebe
Okay.
00:36:52
Wiktor
No, no deal. No deal.
00:36:54
Aniz Lavji
I'm never going to be able to look at this car again when it comes in.
00:36:57
Wiktor
Yeah, I hope not.
00:36:58
Aniz Lavji
he
00:36:58
Wiktor
I hope not. I hope I have, I have, i have, if I've done nothing else, I hope I have ruined the lucid air for you.
00:37:04
Aniz Lavji
man. It's okay. He's got, he's got four other Tesla. So I'll have something else fun to play.
00:37:10
Wiktor
But not a cyber truck, right?
00:37:10
Aniz Lavji
with me
00:37:11
Wiktor
Thank
00:37:12
Aniz Lavji
No, won't, I won't work on them.
00:37:12
Frank Wiebe
are...
00:37:15
Aniz Lavji
I worked on one.
00:37:15
Wiktor
Good.
00:37:16
Aniz Lavji
i had to do, I had to technically i do it because it was referral from Tesla, but they came in with a nail. Nail was in the sidewall.
00:37:27
Aniz Lavji
And it took me 15 minutes to line up the vehicle to lift it. Now, do you know why
00:37:35
Wiktor
I do not.
00:37:36
Aniz Lavji
you
00:37:36
Wiktor
No, enlighten me, please.
00:37:38
Aniz Lavji
It's drive-by wire. So the freaking rear wheels move when you turn the damn wheel. So I'm driving in, but then I'm not driving in because I'm going that way and i'm going this way.
00:37:50
Aniz Lavji
And then my tech's like, whoa, whoa, hold on. You got to go all the way back again. I'm like, the this is the last one.
00:37:54
Wiktor
the It's the poster child of who really, i like, who asked for that?
00:37:58
Frank Wiebe
What, you never drove four-wheel steer before?
00:38:01
Aniz Lavji
Sorry?
00:38:01
Frank Wiebe
You never never drove a four-wheel steer before?
00:38:04
Aniz Lavji
No, no. What do we do the four wheels here? No.
00:38:08
Frank Wiebe
Well, the Chevys back in the day had a four-wheel steer.
00:38:11
Wiktor
Listen, you know, I tried to align quadricepire once.
00:38:12
Aniz Lavji
And on top of that,
00:38:15
Frank Wiebe
Did you really?
00:38:16
Wiktor
Yes, and I need to be clear. Like, i was I was maybe two and a half years into the industry as a whole. Like... Scott, I'm sorry if you're still mad at me 25 years later.
00:38:32
Frank Wiebe
what
00:38:32
Wiktor
Please don't be he there. There could very well be a dartboard with my face on it because he had to bail me out if I couldn't. i God. That and the 91 preludes.
00:38:41
Aniz Lavji
You know
00:38:44
Frank Wiebe
That's crazy.
00:38:44
Wiktor
They still elude me.
00:38:46
Aniz Lavji
but you know, the craziest thing, that tire, it was a huge, it was a 20-inch tire. you end up needing one. The tire itself was 690 or 700-something bucks for the tire.
00:38:57
Frank Wiebe
Holy.
00:38:58
Aniz Lavji
So I had to get them i had to get them back. So I ordered it. I mount the tire, inflate it, put it on, torque it and I go to put the hubcap on.
00:39:10
Aniz Lavji
The hubcap doesn't fit on the exact same tire.
00:39:13
Frank Wiebe
doesn't
00:39:16
Aniz Lavji
So what did I learn is that there's two sides to the tire and the hubcap only fits on the opposite side because of the design on the outside.
00:39:25
Frank Wiebe
What?
00:39:27
Aniz Lavji
Yep. So I had to take the tire off, flip it, reinflate it and line it up in such a way where the hubcap will fit on it.
00:39:27
Wiktor
I'm,
00:39:38
Frank Wiebe
What vehicle was this?
00:39:40
Aniz Lavji
The Cybertruck. And this is why i won't work on another one.
00:39:44
Frank Wiebe
We're not in Kansas anymore.
00:39:46
Aniz Lavji
that That one tire replacement was like the most complicated tire replacement ever in my life.
00:39:52
Frank Wiebe
That's insane.
00:39:53
Wiktor
i I believe it, and I am so intrigued all at the same time as to to why, how, and I, did like...
00:39:59
Frank Wiebe
Yes.
00:40:02
Aniz Lavji
there's ah There's a design on the one side where the cap kind of lines up with the edges of the design.
00:40:09
Wiktor
That does not surprise me at all, and I'm sure it's...
00:40:11
Aniz Lavji
But I had it flipped the other way because there's no inside outside on there.
00:40:12
Wiktor
Yeah.
00:40:16
Aniz Lavji
So I was like, it's a bloody tire. Just put it on.
00:40:18
Wiktor
Yeah.
00:40:19
Aniz Lavji
Nope.
00:40:19
Frank Wiebe
So they didn't have any inside outside markings on it?
00:40:22
Aniz Lavji
Nope. Just had different design on one side the other. I'm like, what what is this Fiesta situation here?
00:40:26
Wiktor
See, and then
00:40:28
Aniz Lavji
I just want to put a damn tire on.
00:40:29
Wiktor
and I have worked at several tire shops in the past. Like, I have i have come into, what was it, the Nitto Terra Grappler? They had specific, like a radioactive symbol on one side of the side wall or like rocks on the other.
00:40:42
Wiktor
So if you handed me a Cybertruck tire, the first thing I'm, oh, cool, they have two different designs, which, what is I guess it's for preference. I would not take it as for fitment of the hubcap.
00:40:49
Aniz Lavji
So I guess, well, yeah, what I should have done, i guess, is seeing the tire and then looked at the other sides, the other ones that are on there and been like, okay, well, let me match it up.
00:40:52
Wiktor
That is the dumbest thing.
00:41:01
Aniz Lavji
But I mean, it's a freaking tire. Just put the damn thing on.
00:41:05
Wiktor
I mean, what... would I was going to say what you should have done was just looked at the Cybertruck and said, I'm sorry, sir, I don't do that kind of thing here. I'm married.
00:41:13
Aniz Lavji
I know.
00:41:13
Wiktor
But, I mean,
00:41:14
Aniz Lavji
But we work on we work on so many of that brand.
00:41:15
Wiktor
i
00:41:16
Frank Wiebe
What the fuck?
00:41:18
Aniz Lavji
I can't say no, that's a problem.
00:41:21
Wiktor
my My daughter is 21, and she took a while to get the driver's license, so I had to drive her to and from work um there for for a little bit of time.
00:41:28
Aniz Lavji
Mm-hmm.
00:41:31
Wiktor
And she is actually the one that point out pointed out, like, most people make fun of the Cybertrucks to me making fun of them. They legitimately ruin my day by existing, and I don't know why, but there is a deep and visceral hatred there.
00:41:45
Wiktor
So...
Complexities in Modern Vehicle Repairs
00:41:47
Wiktor
So again, i just the tire thing does not surprise me, but yeah, you should have just said, hey, you know what? There's there's a time and a place for everything. The time is now. The place is home.
00:41:57
Wiktor
Take that the fuck home. I don't want to work on it.
00:41:59
Aniz Lavji
but the thing is the dealership sent them to me
00:42:05
Wiktor
No.
00:42:06
Frank Wiebe
Oh, that's crazy. Because they didn't want to work on it
00:42:07
Aniz Lavji
oh no because it was a flat tire like a nail on the sidewall and they didn't have time so they sent it to me so like if i say no and i'll it was poor guy gonna do
00:42:14
Frank Wiebe
it.
00:42:18
Wiktor
so So let me ask you this, because the beginning of our conversation when we started talking about tires, you said that tire was $690-something?
00:42:20
Frank Wiebe
Burn it.
00:42:25
Wiktor
ninety something dollars and that's that was retail on it?
00:42:27
Aniz Lavji
Six, yeah, 690.
00:42:30
Aniz Lavji
That was, no I think that retail actually.
00:42:31
Wiktor
Or that was your cost on it? Okay. good I mean, Tesla's kind of a niche specialty also, but you made, what, maybe $57 on that tire if you were lucky?
00:42:42
Aniz Lavji
No, way more than that.
00:42:43
Wiktor
Way more than that?
00:42:44
Aniz Lavji
I may, i on that, because of the headache, that was at least 120 bucks plus the install.
00:42:49
Wiktor
Plus, okay, fair, fair, fair, fair enough, fair enough.
00:42:51
Aniz Lavji
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yep. ah Right now, average right now, i think 33% to 35% on tires where is where you should be.
00:43:07
Aniz Lavji
You can't get too much more than that just because, like you said earlier, the big box stores.
00:43:12
Wiktor
Yeah, you're not going, listen, when I worked for some of the tire shops, you were lucky if you were getting 10 to 15%.
00:43:17
Frank Wiebe
Mm-hmm.
00:43:18
Aniz Lavji
Oh, no, I wouldn't even open the door for 10%, 15%.
00:43:20
Wiktor
yeah I thought the same thing.
00:43:25
Aniz Lavji
Victor off camera, you and i have a conversation. I'm telling you, we'll talk for a bit. You're going to be, you're going to be ordering tire machines and balancers after we talk. i' telling you,
00:43:34
Wiktor
I don't need to do that. We have them. We have them. It's just, again, it's hard to compete when you have the the bell tires across the street and and in the tire rack warehouse. Remember, have a big giant tire rack.
00:43:46
Aniz Lavji
but, but you know what the difference is? Why do people come to you for service? Not because you've got a great beard.
00:43:53
Frank Wiebe
That's the only reason.
00:43:54
Aniz Lavji
um mean that Maybe that is actually, I don't know.
00:43:57
Wiktor
You would be surprised how many times it was, hey, where is that beautiful bearded man?
00:44:02
Aniz Lavji
But you know, you, you offer the service and you're offering something that they're not able to get at the big box store.
00:44:10
Wiktor
I would absolutely agree with you.
00:44:12
Aniz Lavji
So if they got to spend 40 bucks or 80 bucks more with a Victor and their tires are done at the same spot that they're getting their vehicle service,
00:44:23
Aniz Lavji
I bet you they'd probably say, you know what, let's just get it done here and I'll know it's done right because, you know, he fixed my car.
00:44:31
Frank Wiebe
I think Wichter just grabs the tires, goes like this, and just across the road, and then they ship them back. Done just as quick.
00:44:39
Wiktor
No, that is never... that is I might have thrown one or two things.
00:44:42
Aniz Lavji
He doesn't even need a tire machine. He just bare-handedly mounts the tire right on there and blows it into the valve stem and pops.
00:44:51
Wiktor
Maybe 10 or 15 years ago, the last time I tried to do that three weeks ago the show off to a new kid, it did not work out in my favor.
00:44:59
Frank Wiebe
No kidding.
00:44:59
Wiktor
and then And then you have the embarrassing, oh, hey, no, usually I can let me just get it over the fucking rim. And then you are embarrassed.
00:45:07
Aniz Lavji
We, we've been running pretty in insane with low profile stuff lately.
00:45:10
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:45:12
Aniz Lavji
Now i said, we've been getting ah really busy with very, very low profile stuff now.
00:45:13
Wiktor
Say that again?
00:45:18
Aniz Lavji
Like,
00:45:19
Wiktor
all really? Really?
00:45:19
Frank Wiebe
Man, you got to have a special machine to do low profile tires. Like they're certain there's certain, once it's there, get to a certain profile, I just won't even touch them. And same with the get too, uh, too big of a truck tire.
00:45:30
Frank Wiebe
I just say, Nope, I ain't going to do that. Right.
00:45:33
Aniz Lavji
I just...
00:45:33
Frank Wiebe
It's
00:45:33
Wiktor
I'm glad you brought up the big truck tires because honestly, I was going to say I would prefer the low profiles over over some of the the larger, maybe not as well-constructed truck tires because that is one thing that used to drive me nuts is yeah the low pros, hey – as long as I can get it to to onto the rim, I'm not going to have an issue seething it.
00:45:55
Wiktor
I might have to exceed that little warning label that says not to exceed 45 PSI.
00:45:55
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:45:55
Frank Wiebe
Yep.
00:45:59
Wiktor
If anyone wants us watching, I've never done that.
00:46:00
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:46:02
Wiktor
um But some of these bigger tires you get, especially on the colder days that maybe they were packed in the truck funny and those sidewalls are this far apart, and it's 305-70-22 something, and you're like, bro
00:46:12
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:46:17
Aniz Lavji
Or a 205-70-15 Uniroyal.
00:46:21
Wiktor
Oh, I don't, yeah.
00:46:22
Aniz Lavji
yes
00:46:23
Frank Wiebe
Well, the trailer tires are the worst for that.
00:46:26
Aniz Lavji
You got to get out the big cannon to blow those things
00:46:28
Wiktor
Yeah, well, i've I've had them where it's, hey, I've got two cheetahs and I'm i'm trying to spray starter fluid, i hide from the boss. and And still, like, i am I'm using explosives.
00:46:39
Aniz Lavji
right.
00:46:42
Wiktor
It's not seating.
00:46:44
Aniz Lavji
I prefer the low profile. Like we got a, we got a really good machine and like the, the one, i think i got a Audi S five or something and just ordered two 65, 30, 20, 20s.
00:46:46
Wiktor
Absolutely. Absolutely.
00:46:56
Wiktor
30, 19s, 20s.
00:46:57
Aniz Lavji
twenties And then I got two 75, 30, 21s to do later on the week.
00:46:58
Wiktor
Okay.
00:47:03
Aniz Lavji
Like, yeah,
00:47:07
Wiktor
Run flat Pirellis.
00:47:09
Aniz Lavji
no Michelin. They're not even run flat.
00:47:11
Wiktor
i
00:47:12
Aniz Lavji
going on I think it's going on a Model S, Tesla Model S, something like that.
00:47:17
Wiktor
Oh, that's right. i forget Every time I hear 21, I think, oh, great. It's a BMW.
00:47:22
Aniz Lavji
I know the rears are 275 or something.
00:47:23
Wiktor
forgot those Teslas are running the twenty ones now
00:47:24
Aniz Lavji
but
00:47:25
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:47:27
Aniz Lavji
But yeah yeah, like Frank was saying, you got another the right machine to to do that. Before, i wouldn't even touch them. I'd be too scared to scratch the rim. Now, I don't care. I just throw anything at it.
00:47:36
Frank Wiebe
Does that hands-free machine work real well for those things?
00:47:41
Aniz Lavji
the hands ah the um The new machine we got?
00:47:44
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:47:44
Aniz Lavji
So that one, it's it's a center post, and it's got... There's no... You don't need a bar, so it's got like a little thing that pulls the bead right over, and it's it's a touchless machine, basically.
00:47:53
Frank Wiebe
yep
00:47:53
Wiktor
off
00:47:57
Aniz Lavji
It works great.
00:47:57
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:47:58
Wiktor
Nice.
00:47:59
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. That's a machine I'd like to have for doing tires because i hate I hate you doing tires with the one I've got.
00:48:05
Aniz Lavji
Now, this thing, we've done reverse mount Porsche rims and all kinds of stuff, and...
00:48:06
Frank Wiebe
good
00:48:11
Aniz Lavji
That was a bit of a learning experience, but it worked.
00:48:12
Wiktor
Yeah, those ones that go through the center bore are nice.
00:48:16
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, no, those are nice.
00:48:18
Frank Wiebe
Next, next the machine I get, definitely going to be that. I'm not going to, I'm not going to get machine again.
00:48:22
Wiktor
i had
00:48:23
Frank Wiebe
They're no good.
00:48:24
Wiktor
I hate
00:48:25
Aniz Lavji
get a Hunter Maverick, or i think that's what they're called. You just push a button, it just does the whole thing while you sip your coffee.
00:48:32
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. Except that don't drink coffee, but maybe if I had some whiskey at the shop, I might do it then. Yeah.
00:48:36
Aniz Lavji
Hey, I mean, you know, as long you turn the cameras off, that's okay.
00:48:41
Wiktor
it. Yeah.
00:48:42
Frank Wiebe
yep
00:48:45
Aniz Lavji
Oh, man. So that – what was I going to say? Frank, so this season coming up, but who's doing the tires? Is it you or is it Margarita now?
00:48:56
Frank Wiebe
She, uh, she says I kicked her out of the shop. We we've, we've finally hired enough people that I'm going to have the new kid do all the hard work.
00:49:07
Aniz Lavji
Well, it's because ah she she was doing the tires so fast you couldn't keep up.
00:49:11
Frank Wiebe
No, dude, dude, she, she was doing them so fast that it was like, I was just sitting there doing nothing. and I was like, why don't we have any work? And she's like, i don't know what you're talking about. I got lots of work. And now she busted, she busted tires. Like, you Like, even the truck tires.
00:49:27
Frank Wiebe
Some of them. And then we did the video on about how to lift the tires because, you know, the best way to lift it.
00:49:32
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, I saw that.
00:49:33
Frank Wiebe
And, man, did we get a lot of shit for that. And it's like, there's just no better way to lift a tire than that way.
00:49:40
Wiktor
Everybody has a better way to do something than you do, period.
00:49:43
Frank Wiebe
No.
00:49:45
Aniz Lavji
Frank, you can just get that new machine. Have you seen that new machine that lifts the tire for you?
00:49:48
Frank Wiebe
Oh, come on.
00:49:49
Aniz Lavji
And it lifts it right up. and It lines it up all nice. And you push a button. It moves it forward.
00:49:56
Frank Wiebe
The new kid the new kid i had i have, he I seen him one time, he's trying to put tires on, any he and he had the car like this far off the ground. And he's down like this trying to put a tire on. I'm like, what the heck are you doing?
00:50:07
Wiktor
You know you can lift the car higher.
00:50:11
Frank Wiebe
I'm i like if at this point, you might as well sit on the ground because then you might be able to do it and then use your knees to lift it up or something like that or your or your feet or something.
00:50:20
Aniz Lavji
Frank, how old are your hoists that they can't lift him more than a foot off the ground, man? What's going on?
00:50:24
Frank Wiebe
ah I'm trying to save hydro.
00:50:26
Aniz Lavji
Oh, geez.
00:50:27
Wiktor
but is he Is he the same kid that he'll pull a car in and then get on the ground and get underneath it and you have to remind him, hey, we have we have lifts here. i've I bought them. I paid for them. They they work.
00:50:35
Frank Wiebe
I don't let him pull cars in yet. He's not earned that privilege.
00:50:38
Wiktor
the electrian The electric bill is paid up. you're You're more than welcome to hit the button, and it can it will go up and down.
00:50:45
Aniz Lavji
does he Does he at least have the mechanic stance when he pushes the button?
00:50:50
Frank Wiebe
No, I don't think I've taught him that yet.
00:50:52
Aniz Lavji
You know, the you cross one leg, one hand on the hip, and
00:50:53
Frank Wiebe
Yeah. yep
00:50:56
Wiktor
Oh, that's good.
00:50:58
Frank Wiebe
Watching TikToks is the other one. That's...
00:51:01
Aniz Lavji
yeah. and then And then all of a sudden the car goes all the way up to the bar. Yep, yep, that's enough up there.
00:51:07
Frank Wiebe
ye
00:51:08
Wiktor
Every so often you get that off-center little rock that brings you back to the reality.
00:51:13
Frank Wiebe
yeah had one of the other days He started lifting it, and the and the arm just had to move just a little bit and pop into place, and it snapped.
00:51:13
Aniz Lavji
Bring back your other kick.
00:51:22
Frank Wiebe
I think he just about shit himself. He just looked, and he stops, and he looks, and he's looking at me. I said, I think you're okay. I think it just settled. I look on freezer.
00:51:31
Wiktor
Listen...
00:51:32
Frank Wiebe
said, yeah, you're fine. Okay. Then Kip was good.
00:51:34
Wiktor
we've We've all had the the butt puckering, i almost dropped the car off the lift moment that made you really remember that you have to respect how to lift. or or you Or you didn't, and you dropped the car.
00:51:45
Wiktor
But one of the two have happened.
00:51:47
Frank Wiebe
All right, what's your but worse what's your worst almost car off the moment, almost car off the lift moment?
00:51:48
Aniz Lavji
Oh, it's always scary.
00:51:55
Wiktor
So I actually have...
00:51:55
Frank Wiebe
What?
00:51:56
Wiktor
i have that I personally did or that I was generally involved in because I've actually, there were, there were a couple that have made it to TikTok and Facebook, but there were two that I was, I, I directly, I pulled the car in, I lifted it.
00:52:02
Frank Wiebe
How you involved it?
00:52:12
Wiktor
And, um, one early on in my career, um, I was working at the, at the tires plus in Tampa, actually with, with a very good friend of mine, Aaron. And we had these in ground split post swing arm, um,
00:52:26
Frank Wiebe
Oh, shit. Yep. Mm-hmm.
00:52:28
Wiktor
disgusting excuses for lifts.
00:52:30
Frank Wiebe
yeah Yep, yep.
00:52:31
Wiktor
and um And they had the flip-up pads. And I want to say it was a 97, 98 Ford Explorer. And I had... i
00:52:42
Wiktor
No, it was not. It was a Ford Ranger. It was exactly what it was because of the big, bumpy frantic.
00:52:49
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah. They're horrible. Yep. Yep.
00:52:52
Wiktor
And I had it up in the air, and and we realized very quickly that it was not only not very good with the balance, but not all of the pads were lined up exactly.
00:53:06
Aniz Lavji
oh
00:53:08
Wiktor
you're you're supposed They're supposed to be against each other, and they were not.
00:53:11
Frank Wiebe
Yep, yep.
00:53:13
Wiktor
So as we're looking with the flashlight, friend and mentor Aaron was like, you know, we should... This probably not... a And he looked over at the other side and realized that part of the reason it was wobbly, his third arm was not making contact with anything at all.
00:53:27
Aniz Lavji
Oh, shit.
00:53:29
Wiktor
And he just kind of was like, get out of here, move. So there was that one. And then there was a Silverado I was trying to lift um on a two-post.
00:53:43
Wiktor
And this one, the the lock had failed.
Risks in Mechanical Work
00:53:46
Aniz Lavji
Oh,
00:53:46
Wiktor
um so the arm swung and and got out from under it, and it was fine. it It balanced on three, but what was funny about it was I was made fun of for a week because i my first reaction was, I'm going to get my fat ass underneath it and hold it up because because me versus 5,000-pound Silverado is not the problem.
00:54:02
Frank Wiebe
Yeah no, what's only a third of it or quarter of it so you're good
00:54:09
Aniz Lavji
Jesus.
00:54:12
Wiktor
Yeah, yeah, it it it was...
00:54:14
Aniz Lavji
peace
00:54:15
Wiktor
it didn't It didn't break. it It was fine. It was fine. It was fine.
00:54:18
Frank Wiebe
The worst the worst one that I was involved in and I didn't do it we had a F 250 on a hoist first of all it was an F 250 on a
00:54:28
Frank Wiebe
9,000 pound hoist and a fairly old one at that. This is at my old shop. And we had it up in the air. and And because it was so unstable, we put one of those tall stands underneath the the hitch.
00:54:42
Frank Wiebe
Well, we only put one right in the center. And I didn't go to lower it while my, my I don't know, it was a co-op student or one of the other employees went to lower it.
00:54:53
Frank Wiebe
And all of sudden, just happened to look over and I'm like, stop. He had the thing, forgot to take the post out the back, and he was lowering it. The rear arms weren't touching the frame anymore, and the back of the truck was swinging back and forth like this.
00:55:02
Wiktor
Oh.
00:55:08
Wiktor
Oh.
00:55:09
Aniz Lavji
Jeez.
00:55:09
Frank Wiebe
yeah
00:55:11
Wiktor
That's what all that means.
00:55:12
Frank Wiebe
that That was the worst thing because when you went when to lift it back up, now the the truck had shifted over and it wasn't hitting the hoist properly anymore. So I think we had like maybe half an inch where the hoist was actually making contact with the frame.
00:55:28
Aniz Lavji
God.
00:55:28
Frank Wiebe
Oh, man, that was a pucker moment, let me tell you. Didn't fall off, but man, man, oh, man. From then on, it was always two stands behind the on the rear bumper, not one.
00:55:34
Wiktor
Yeah,
00:55:40
Wiktor
yeah good call.
00:55:41
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah, that was a good learning curve.
00:55:44
Wiktor
Good, good call.
00:55:44
Aniz Lavji
Yeah, that's for you. we We had one car we were driving onto the, i I was watching it on the camera and scared the crap out of me, driving it on the alignment lift. And I think, you know, he was guiding him on there.
00:55:56
Aniz Lavji
And then i think his foot slipped a little bit on the gas. So he went and then the front wheels stopped right on the plates.
00:56:06
Frank Wiebe
Yep.
00:56:06
Aniz Lavji
And, and then you just see my other mechanic, like his eyes are looking like this. Like the car was like right there and then put it in park.
00:56:12
Wiktor
Yeah.
00:56:15
Aniz Lavji
And then I just see him walk around and he's like, Oh, let's see. This is the camera. He's telling himself that I'm like, Oh, no one's injured.
00:56:21
Frank Wiebe
that's the
00:56:24
Aniz Lavji
Everyone it's okay.
00:56:27
Frank Wiebe
no no problem
00:56:27
Aniz Lavji
No one's gonna run over.
00:56:28
Frank Wiebe
No broken mirrors, no nothing.
00:56:31
Aniz Lavji
But yeah, you know, you get those moments here and there, but, You're right, Victor. It does bring you back to reality. And and and every time you like every time my guys lift a vehicle, I tell them, don't check once.
00:56:39
Wiktor
yeah
00:56:44
Aniz Lavji
Check four times before you lift. It's fine.
00:56:47
Frank Wiebe
Yep, yep.
00:56:47
Aniz Lavji
The day is going to continue. If you take an extra five minutes or two minutes, I don't care.
00:56:49
Wiktor
Yeah.
00:56:52
Wiktor
You know, and it sounds cliche. give it You get it a foot off the ground, give it the shaky shaky for safety because, you know, it's it's don't think it's like safety glasses.
00:56:57
Aniz Lavji
Every time.
00:56:58
Frank Wiebe
Yeah.
00:57:04
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:57:05
Wiktor
We all need to wear safety glasses. None of us do, but we all need to.
00:57:09
Aniz Lavji
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:11
Wiktor
The shake is the same thing.
00:57:11
Aniz Lavji
i mean, just go to the back of the car, shake it, make sure it looks fine and, you know, give you some extra confidence that you're doing it the way it should be done and then let rip.
00:57:22
Wiktor
but and and And shake it violently.
00:57:25
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:57:25
Wiktor
Don't be afraid of it.
00:57:26
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:57:27
Wiktor
You want to...
00:57:28
Frank Wiebe
We're still talking about the hoist, right?
00:57:31
Aniz Lavji
Yeah. yeah
00:57:32
Wiktor
Oh, we are? Oh, well, to be gentle with the car. You don't want to damage a bump. No, I'm kidding.
00:57:37
Frank Wiebe
Oh,
00:57:38
Wiktor
sure
00:57:40
Aniz Lavji
Oh, man.
00:57:40
Frank Wiebe
too good.
00:57:41
Aniz Lavji
That's funny.
00:57:43
Wiktor
and Bless you.
00:57:45
Aniz Lavji
Sorry?
00:57:45
Wiktor
i He either coughed or sneezed or lost half of a lung. was just being...
00:57:51
Frank Wiebe
Losing a lung for the last week. I've been, i've been like, sick. I've had a major head cold. Definitely, yep.
00:57:58
Aniz Lavji
it's I think he's got that that lucid air going on there.
00:57:58
Frank Wiebe
um of like
00:58:01
Wiktor
That's what I was saying.
00:58:03
Frank Wiebe
definitely ye
00:58:05
Aniz Lavji
Oh man, Victor, man, this was a lot of fun, buddy. i appreciate you you coming on and and chatting with us.
00:58:10
Wiktor
absolutely. Absolutely.
00:58:14
Aniz Lavji
um And, you know, hopefully if you can make it out the tool or something, we'd love to to know how you how you like it if you end up going. And i think this year I've got ASTA coming up in September, which I'm hopefully making that one. And Frank, I'm going to force Frank to go to that anyways. So.
00:58:33
Frank Wiebe
It's not me you have to convince. It's the... I to get rid of anyway. Oh, she wants to get rid of me. Okay, you you probably heard that. Did you record?
00:58:40
Wiktor
then
00:58:40
Frank Wiebe
Okay, so I'm good to go.
00:58:42
Wiktor
Keep that clip. But Frank has my number. Hit me up.
00:58:45
Frank Wiebe
There we go. Yep.
00:58:46
Aniz Lavji
Yeah.
00:58:47
Wiktor
We can share the hotel room.
00:58:48
Aniz Lavji
what
00:58:49
Frank Wiebe
Oh, yeah. um I'll bring the beans.
00:58:54
Aniz Lavji
Oh, man.
00:58:55
Wiktor
Just let me look there.
00:58:56
Aniz Lavji
Victor, just hang on for a second when we stop. But thank you, everyone, for listening to the show. And if you can, log on to Facebook, search for the Shop and Try to Talk podcast, and give us a like and follow. We'd really appreciate it.
00:59:10
Aniz Lavji
And i as always, Frank, you've been awesome.
00:59:10
Frank Wiebe
Absolutely. All
00:59:13
Aniz Lavji
And Victor, this was a lot of fun.
00:59:14
Frank Wiebe
right. Nice hair anyway.
00:59:16
Aniz Lavji
I know.
00:59:17
Wiktor
having a good day.
00:59:18
Aniz Lavji
All right, guys.
00:59:18
Frank Wiebe
Indeed. Thank you.