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HAVE YOU FREAKING CAR CROOKS AND MORONS EVER THOUGHT ABOUT PAYING THEM?

I had a service advisor whose previous job was selling computers at a big box store. When he went to purchase a home computer, he came to me for advice because he knew that I kept up on technology. BTW, he knew nothing about cars either.

With your education and experience it's a no brainer.....UNIONIZE!! Its not like they can say "fire everyone" because there aren't enough mechanics and trained techs for them to replace you with! For now you hold all the cards, strike while the iron is hot! Solidarity brothers and sisters.....demand a little bit bigger slice of the pie!! Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

That dealership is not for you. I will say that there are some dealerships out there that urge their techs to do honest work. I can’t say how many of them there are but there are some. Unfortunately you have to search for the right place for you (techs in general). Also that warranty customer who keeps modifying their car, needs to eorher find another place or just stay away from dealers. As a VW tech, anyone who tunes their car, automatically loses their warranty no questions asked. Even if they flash and then unflash it, the systen can detect when it happens and it stays there forever and Vw will not warranty tunes cars.

I'd rather work at Walmart than work as a tech at a dealer.

This is age old dealership flat rate practice since the beginning of car dealerships. Decades-old practice. There’s always young dummies to hire to replace techs who quit. The cycle goes on and on and takes a shit head asshole to continue to work a career at a dealership in any position but Repair technicians ought to be the ones that stand up and tell the shitheads that don’t know fuck about cars in advisor and sales department that they will only work for salary and stay the fuck away from the shop with their nonsense and their uselessness not knowing how to do any real work in the real world.

I am sorry to hear you work struggles. You mention the flat rate system as a concern, it is the dealers that use a system that pays disproportionately without a concern for profit sharing or other fair compensation for dealer employees. Those dealers are greedy and arrogant. Look at the other side of their business model with car prices so high nobody will buy them. Many of them will go out of business until they are able to figure it out. Good luck to you.

It’s the same way in appliance repair. Most of us just kinda ditch the manufacturers, and watch them squirm till they pay better, and they do for a bit, and then attempt to start their own service departments. That fails then they start paying crap again, and then we all bail again.

Is it possible to remove arc and replace with a custom made gasket instead?

re the air compressor, is there one that is good for mechanic work as well as body? i intend to use it at home. I tried to use a small huskey but it runs out of air too quickly

Thanks for highlighting this. First, I must say congratulations -🎉to you for improving your educational levels. I am having the same issues with Werner KIA in Tallahassee, Fl. I have a new Telluride with at the time 11,000 miles on it. Suddenly, the passenger wiper fluid jet stops working, and the driver's side followed 2-3 weeks later. I took the car in to have it fixed and to replace the rims with another set I owned. They did the tires and didn't attempt to fix the faulty jets on this new vehicle. I had a20 year old Honda Civic that had the original washer fluid jets that worked well. They gave all kind of excuses, and until today, it's still not fixed. They complained about the warranty, that it's NY fault, that rats may have bitten the wires. All BS. I am still driving this new Kia Telluride and cannot use the wipers.

There’s more to it. Both of the things he talked about here were done by just about every manufacturer ever not just Subaru. And that is not the only reason for FIPG/RTV replacing gaskets. It lasts much longer and is a way of the manufacturer tracking whether or not an engine has been opened for warranty purposes. The factory normally uses a very specific color that is different than what they sell to the public. At first glance it may appear the same, similar, or completely different depending on the brand, but a warranty inspector will typically be sent out when a dealer is doing a warranty claim on an engine failure, and they can tell if it is original or not. Yes, manufacturers take short cuts sometimes to reduce manufacturing costs but that is normally never the sole reason why they change something. It’s just a significant factor. Government regulations are another big factor. Rtv/fipg/every other sealant manufacturers are using does lower manufacturing costs in the long term but it is also used because it is superior to a traditional gasket. That caveat is that installation is easier to screw up for the average bonehead mechanic and it’s generally more time consuming to clean up when doing a reseal. It’s also never as simple as it seems. Mechanics love to harp on engineers because mechanics are normally ignorant and arrogant (at least 95% of the ones I have worked with). Many of them don’t know that there are certain types of sealants that CANNOT be used on certain engines because they can damages catalytic converters and oxygen sensors. How? As the engine heats up, the wrong type of sealant will gas off acetic acid which will end up going through your crankcase ventilation system, into your intake, then through the combustion chamber, and finally through your exhaust system where your oxygen sensors reside. Not generally something you would ever think of when you’re resealing your oil pan, but that’s just one of the million ways that modern vehicles are not at all intuitive. The average mechanic will grab whatever tube of silicone is nearest to them and dump globs of it all over without a care in the world because of flat rate. Thank you Mr. CM Autohaus for exposing the flat rate system that so many people who are not mechanics have not idea about. It gives them a much better idea of why things are the way they are when you take your car to get serviced and helps explain why everybody should stay the hell away from our industry.

I’m an automotive machinist. Have machined and built many Subaru heads. I know the pains surrounding the time vampire lashing the valves can be. Being in that line of work we often see exactly what is being stated except from the other end. Same head or set of heads (we mark them for our own ID purposes). They needed to be lash when checked the first time through the shop. Nope just PT and mill. Come back in for another PT and mill and valve lash is the same of not worse. Sometimes the exhaust valves and seats get burned because the lash was so tight the valve couldn’t cool. I’ve been cussed out over the phone by one of these dishonest mechanics for not preloading the cam gears before sending the head back to them. My boss back then knew nothing about the details of that situation but was worried. I just told my boss that I would go to the dealership and fix the issue myself in mere minutes. I met the service manager of that dealership explained why I was there and walked with him the the problem vehicle that “sounded like an FN sewing machine” because I didn’t preload the cam gears before sending the heads back. The hot head tech wasn’t so confident with his mouth when I was standing in front of him. He knew he had shit the bed then and there. I simply pointed right at the head bolts directly under the camshafts and asked how anyone expected those cam gears to remain preloaded when the cams have to be removed to torque the head down? That tech knew he had screwed up and he knew the service manager didn’t have the knowledge to know the difference. The truth was instant. That rough tough mechanic was all of the sudden not so. I just looked at him right in front of everyone and told him the next time he screwed up and called our shop cussing people out that I would gladly kill his fn head for it. He had nothing else to say. He knew he had been called out on his bullshit. That service manager walked me out apologizing the entire way. I just advised the service manager to keep that mechanic off of the phone. I still run into that mechanic from time to time. He never had much to say when I’m around.

Service advisor are insanely overpaid

Yuuuup. Forget that mess. Hard to find good knowledgeable people now a days.

In Office Space, Milton burns down the building. Just sayin'.

what is your opinion of the 2005 Subaru Outbacks and their engines?

I was a master ase tech that worked for ford and then a private shop. I was not paid what i felt i was worth. I looked around and all the automotive shops paid the same or less for my qualifications. Ended up working in an industrial repair shop getting paid 110 % more. What sweetened that deal was that i no longer had to work with the public and almost no repair i do now is time sensitive.

it's real simple, fast food, automotive, fill in the blank industry has a labor " Shortage". No such thing, What you have is failure to pay enough. Do not say a generation is lazy and drug ridden. Say, Damn we've ruined an entire generation with low pay and bad options. If houses gonna cost 400K, then you pay a rate that allows a person to buy one. If that' doesn't work, you drop the price of housing till it matches pay offered.

good video

Thanks for the helpful advice, I wish you were my mechanic!

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LOOK A LITTLE HARDER

Eventually, poor management comes back to bite. I drove by an Auto Zone today, can I be a mechanic?

how wasnt any one sued over the BRZ FRS GT 86 Engine failures not doing the recals correctly? and after words their engine blows up. sound like a lot of free engine replacements or get sued

i fix my cars myself. i cant afford paying a shop

ill never buy an EV ( even with thEV market vallue down about 54%.( in 2024-2025 prob worse) i still cant afford any EV

EVs are not helping either. they r making it worse

This is bull$h!T man!!!!!!!! @ 20:43 camshafts warrantee replacement .. cams (1 or 2 ) intake and or exhaust cams ( or both in a single cam) cam + new timing belt + Tensioner + setting the timing and on some cars (A New Water pump) in case of damaged belts or parts or WP leak! ... it sucks and is bull only paid 3 hours but the jobs could take 2-even 5 or 6 x longer.. (Hyundai Elantra 2003 , NEVER AGAIN will i do a timing belt on any Hyundai

Thank you for sharing the truth about this corrupt industry. Good luck on your new journey. I hope all the snakes that crawled at your feet find their place in hell. You hold the high ground!

So does this solve the issue permanently?

Let me give a more domestic vehicle that techs cant work on anymore- Finding an alignment tech who can make a ford truck with TTB/ i-beam suspension line up and drive straight? Nearly impossible. Modern day shops can’t line up MOST ford trucks of the 80’s 90’s and early 2000’s!

As humans get dumber, Car maintenance becomes more scarce. I would assume this will only get worse.

DIY Mike?!

I've had it happen twice now in a 43 Vortec motor and the last time it happened I now have zero PSI in cylinder 4 which I'm praying is a valve and not the cylinder

Does anybody know what can cause an engine to suddenly start eating spark plugs

But RTV in the FA24 pickup has been proven not to affect the oil pressure, so why should we keep worrying about that?

Ya that’s. Bs

What's RTV?

So its safe to say that Subaru/Toyota dont give a shit, but people are still buying them despite the fact. We are also to blame since we buy them. But regular people arent going to open them up and check them. Only a hand ful of enthusiast.

I believe Honda has eliminated some gaskets and gone to silicone too, a shame.

It's unbelievable that Subaru haven't taken care of the issue since 2022 !!! Moreover, Toyota (a partial owner of Subaru) did nothing as well.

This always been my fear and also the uses market they are way too expensive and that insurance price not very look for someone wallet

FX16 GTS is super cool, but I had a 1.8 16v GTi and it felt a lot more powerful than the USDM 4AGE.

Its the Dunning Krueger effect. Idiots think they are smart while intelligent people doubt themselves.

Do you have any idea where can I find those spacers online?

Best 86 clutch instructions on the internet! So many helpful tips!

Pressure bleeder would overcome the air pocket in the master too.

Did you try using pressure bleeder.

Nailed it on the head, I also made the stupid decision to become a mechanic and got an apprenticeship at a Toyota dealership and decided to leave after they kept shafting me and never trained me and kept me on servicing only, now im at a good Bosch workshop but im doing part time studies to leave this terrible field, quite a shame coz i enjoy cars but its just not worth it