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Hi guys I’m currently 5 months into my nissan 3 year apprenticeship I work in a main dealership that specialises in Nissan and Vauxhall/Opel as I am only 16 I’m finding it a bit stressful working under pressure constantly, does anyone know anyways of dealing with the strict time restrictions of working in a dealership?
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Welcome to the world of automotive.
Its the same for all of us who work in the field. You will become faster as you develop over time.
Please dont take any short cuts either to speed up your work rate.
What helped me speed up my service times were having the right quality tools for the job and proper planning.
Thanks for the reply, I have all the basic tools for servicing brake jobs and the basic automotive repair jobs all of my tools are snap on and they are brilliant and I have already seen examples of people taking risky short cuts and I will defiantly not make the same mistake as it never ends well for the technician. Thanks for the support.
Get your quality to a good standard and then you’ll become quicker from there. If you rush you’ll be quick but have comebacks every week which your service manager will not thank you for. If your quality is there and you get crap for not being that quick, you have something to fall back on (“it’s taken me .2 longer but I’m learning and it won’t have to fixed again tomorrow”). It sounds like you have some cobblers at your place so learn from their mistakes. Speed and quality is easily achievable after time. Planning, logic, right tool and I’m sorry to say (as your starting out) experience. Be patient and stick to your morals. Good luck
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